Alison Jackson (artist)

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Alison Jackson
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Jackson by Francesco Guidicini, 2015
Born
Alison Mowbray-Jackson

15 May 1960 (1960-05-15) (age 65)
Hampshire, England
EducationChelsea College of Art and Design
Royal College of Art
Occupation(s)Artist, photographer
Website alisonjackson.com

Alison Jackson (born 15 May 1960) is an English artist, photographer and filmmaker. Her work explores the theme of celebrity culture. She makes realistic work of celebrities doing things in private using lookalikes.

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Education

Alison Jackson attended the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London between 1993 and 1997, and graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (Sculpture). [1]

From 1997 to 1999, Jackson studied for a MA in Fine-art photography at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. [1]

Career

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Jackson photographing lookalikes posing as the British royal family

In 1999, Jackson created black-and-white photographs that appeared to show Princess Diana and Dodi Al-Fayed with a mixed-race love child. The photographs, titled Mental Images, were part of her graduation show at the RCA. She has used lookalikes to create photographs and films of celebrities in private situations. [2] At the RCA, Jackson won a number of awards including The Photographers' Gallery Award and in 2002, her advertising campaign for Schweppes drinks won gold and silver awards from Campaign magazine. [1]

Jackson wrote, directed, and co-produced BBC Two's 2003 series Doubletake with Tiger Aspect. The show won an award at the 2002 BAFTAs. [3] [4] She made a series of mockumentaries and fake biopics for Channel 4 about public figures, using George W Bush and Tony Blair lookalikes in a series of staged scenes of their public lives. Blaired Vision, broadcast on 26 June 2007, coincided with Blair's exit from office. [5]

Jackson performed a one-woman show, Shot to Fame, in 2018 at Soho Theatre, [6] and Double Fake Show in 2019 at Leicester Square Theater . [7]

Since 2018, she has served as a Conservative Party (UK) councillor for the Chelsea Riverside ward on Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. [8] [9]

Art exhibitions

Bibliography

Television

Jackson has created many TV shows and was the artist and creator behind BBC Two 's 2003 series Doubletake, which she created, wrote, directed, and co-produced with Tiger Aspect, and for which she won and was nominated for BAFTAs. [4] [5]

Opera & theatre

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN   0-953260-95-X.
  2. ↑ Garfield, Simon (7 June 2007). "The real Tony uncovered". The Observer Review. London. Retrieved 23 April 2010.
  3. ↑ "That's Blair and Becks! No wait..." BBC News Online Magazine . 18 December 2003. Retrieved 1 January 2010.
  4. 1 2 Ferrier, Morwenna (23 January 2011). "Alison Jackson: "I'd love to do Piers Morgan. I'd just use Susan Boyle. They're identical"". The Guardian Review. London. Retrieved 11 January 2017.
  5. 1 2 "Photographer Alison Jackson gives up hope of finding Gordon Brown look-alike". The Telegraph. 25 October 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2017.
  6. ↑ "ALISON JACKSON : 'SHOT TO FAME' Fake News – Alternative Facts – The gap between the two". Soho Theatre. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  7. ↑ Cavendish, Dominic (6 March 2019). "Alison Jackson, Leicester Square Theatre, review: an appealing encounter with the doyenne of fake news". The Telegraph. ISSN   0307-1235 . Retrieved 26 March 2021.
  8. ↑ "Members". www.rbkc.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  9. ↑ Pes, Javier (27 August 2018). "Alison Jackson, the UK Artist Famous for Mercilessly Satirizing Donald Trump, Is Now a Politician Herself—a Conservative One". Artnet News. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  10. ↑ "163 – TRUMP AND MISS MEXICO by Alison Jackson". se.royalacademy.org.uk. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  11. ↑ Estonian gallery told to remove fake Trump and Diana billboard images The Guardian, 2019
  12. ↑ "How the camera lies to you, and why you don't care".
  13. ↑ "Alison Jackson". 19 February 2020.
  14. ↑ "The Londoner: 'Indecent' Trump statue is stuck in truck, says artist". 12 October 2020.
  15. ↑ "Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof : Alison Jackson : Truth is Dead". 27 March 2024.
  16. ↑ "Royal high jinks: Charles and Camilla lookalikes take to the streets". 5 May 2023.
  17. ↑ ""Alison Jackson: The Truth is Dead" - Exhibition NRW-Forum Düsseldorf".
  18. ↑ "Fotomuseum Westlicht : Paparazzi!". 28 December 2023.
  19. ↑ "The 7th edition of the Panoràmic festival reflects on the concept of "face" - Bonart".
  20. ↑ "Alison Jackson | Truth is Dead in Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof Maastricht – Holland Times".
  21. ↑ "La Trashiata": A Story in the Public Domain, BBC at the Edinburgh Festivals 2015
  22. ↑ Crick, Michael (22 August 2014). ""La Trashiata": satirising celebrity culture the Alison Jackson way". channel4.com/news. Channel 4. Retrieved 1 December 2015. ... a brilliant satire of modern celebrity culture. The Queen, Princes William and Harry; Kate and Pippa Middleton; Putin, Gordon Ramsay, David Beckham, Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi; Madonna and Lady Gaga, among others, all feature in a string of 14 famous, but rewritten, operatic arias."
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