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Biography


Jackie has exhibited her fine art work in commercial galleries, museums, artist-led shows, activist events, and has curated site-specific installations in unconventional locations. 

Notable exhibitions include the Jerwood Drawing Prize, Threadneedle Figurative Prize, and 'Save Our Placards' at the Museum of London, alongside being shortlisted for a major drawing residency at the Victoria & Albert Museum.  

Jackie has twenty years of experience of working in further education colleges teaching Art, Design and Photography and supporting students in safeguarding roles.  



Education


MA Fine Art (Drawing)

UAL (University of the Arts London), 2010


Qualified Teacher Status

Art & Design: Age 11-18, 2002


PGCE (Art & Design; Age 11-18)

University of Brighton, 2001


BA (Hons) Art & Design (Painting & Photography)

Bradford College of Art, 2000, (2:1)



Selected Exhibitions


2015:  Fireside Bookshop


2015:  Uber Hairdresser


2015:  Naked Eye Gallery


2014:  Shortlisted for the year-long V&A 'Exhibition Road Project' Drawing Residency


2014:  Goldstone Gallery


2014:  Oxmarket Centre of Arts, Chichester


2014:  Untitled Artist's Fair, London


2014:  Naked Eye Gallery


2013:  Ropetackle Arts Centre


2013:  'Threshold': Love Architecture festival, MyHotel, Brighton. Curator: Cara Courage


2013:  Bellis Gallery


2012:  'Save Our Placards!', CRM, Cornwall


2011:  'Save Our Placards!', Museum of London. Curator: Guy Atkins


2011:  'Dining Room Drawing Club', Soho & Brighton


2011:  'Spending Review', York, Bradford.  Curator: Graham Martin


2011:  'Cuts and Grazes', The Art Corner


2010:  'Big Society', Space Station 65


2010:  'I sore, I swore', The Nunnery


2009:  Claremont Hotel


2008:  Finalist: Brighton's Best Open House


2008:  Threadneedle Prize


2006:  'Brighton's Favourite Artist', shortlisted


2005:  The Oriental Hotel


2005:  'ConTemporary', Queens Road, Brighton


2004:  'Canvas', Blanch House


2004:  Naked Eye Gallery


2003:  'The Rugby Open', Rugby Art Gallery


2000:  The Jerwood Drawing Prize


2000:  'The Bradford Open', Cartwright Hall


2000:  The Bradford Gallery


2000:  Dean Clough Gallery