1. Abby Jackson was born on 1982 and is a British artist, Stuckist painter, writer and art activist.
10 Facts About Abby Jackson
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Abby Jackson was born in North Devon and lives and works in London.
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Abby Jackson attended Somerset College of Art and studied advertising.
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In 2005, Jackson joined the international Stuckism movement founded by Billy Childish and Charles Thomson in 1999 to promote painting and oppose conceptual art.
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Abby Jackson phoned Thomson "out of the blue" about a year after leaving college, where she had been told about the Stuckists in a visual culture lecture.
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Abby Jackson criticised David Hockney and other artists, who were opposed to the threshold being lowered to encompass emerging artists.
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Abby Jackson's college painting, Foreign Policy 2000, had been exhibited after her graduation in the Wellington Club in London, where it was approved by both Arab clientele and Damien Hirst, a friend of the club owner.
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Abby Jackson's painting was then copied by Mark Wallinger as part of his recreation of Haw's display; the recreation was exhibited as an installation, State Britain, which opened in January 2007 at Tate Britain and won the Turner Prize later that year.
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Abby Jackson's writing has been published in The Face, The Hospital and Ditched.
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Abby Jackson has had solo shows at the Adam Street Gallery and Diorama Gallery, and group shows by West Eleven Gallery, Artshole, Wimbledon Art Studios, Islington Arts Fair, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, and Peace Camp.