Studio 40, Delta House Studios

Originally from France, Antonia Jackson is an artist now based in London. After an initial career in banking, she decided to pursue her passion for art. She eventually graduated from Wimbledon College of Arts with a BA (hons) in Fine Arts /Painting in 2014 after completing a Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Chelsea College of Art (2010). She has since exhibited regularly in the UK and in France. She was longlisted for the Signature Art Prize 2015 and the Clyde and Co award 2014. Her work is held in private collections in the UK and Europe.

Primarily an oil painter interested in memory and the cinematic, she finds inspiration in images drawn from 1960s New Wave French and Italian art films (a form of collective archive), super 8 reels from personal archives, and found or personal photographs. Such mediated images provide a space for the recovery of memories mainly through the medium of painting.

Jackson’s present body of work stems from recently rediscovered Super 8 reels that her father recorded in the 70s and 80s. Some reference family moments while others were shot on business travels. Carefully selected stills from those reels are appropriated and redefined during the painting process, which allows a distant past to be brought back into the present and new narratives to emerge. Often painted on the same format to replicate the sequencing of film and due to the very nature of their degraded source, they hover between abstraction and figuration: at times the brushwork is more defined and at others more loose and free. Painted on board with thin layers of oil paint and oil glazes often laid over a carefully chosen ground, they aim to reflect the fragility and transience of memory. Her vibrant use of colour, influenced by post-Impressionism is also essential to create a dreamlike surreal atmosphere in the paintings inviting the viewer into a strange poetic world, half remembered, half imagined.

Recent selected group exhibitions include:

- Tales of the Unexpected, (June2019), One Paved Court Gallery, Richmond, London.
- Festival du Film Insulaire Fringe Exhibition, (August 2018), an annual documentary film festival based on the Island of Groix, Brittany, France.
-The Landscape of Time, (Jan –March 2018) at the Crypt, St Marylebone Parish Church , London, hosted by Contemporary British Painting , which she also curated; 
-The annual Made in Arts London (part of UAL) exhibition in the offices of Harmonic Capital in the City of London (September 2016- June 2017);
-The Affordable Art Fair (May 2017), Hampstead Heath, London;
-The Art Maze (December 2016), Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London;
-The Other Art Fair (October2016), Truman Brewery, London;
-Europa (June 2016), Transition Gallery, Regents Studios, London;
-L’Invitation au Voyage, Platform 1 gallery, London, part of Wandsworth Arts Fringe Festival 2016;

Website:  www.antoniajacksonart.com
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