Q & A with Jackie Anderson for THIS PLACE

The Corner Store Gallery - Jackie Anderson

Q & A with Jackie Anderson for THIS PLACE

We’ve been a big fan of Jackie Anderson here at The Corner Store Gallery for a couple of years now and have been very proud to call her one of our own since the beginning of 2020. Jackie travels between Orange and Newcastle often delivering work and enjoying the drive along the way. These trips have inspired her body of work for THIS PLACE opening November 18th.

How did you become involved with The Corner Store Gallery?

I applied to a couple of their call out group exhibitions. These are such a great opportunity for new and emerging artists to get their work seen in a commercial gallery space and to create work around a particular theme. The relationship I have with the gallery grew from there and I was asked to supply some pieces for their revolving stockroom. I am immensely grateful for this opportunity to have my work seen by a wider audience.

Tell us about your practice? How long have you been making art? What is your favourite subject matter? Where do you create your art?

I’ve been painting ‘seriously’ as in pursuing it as a full time career for just under two years now. I was fortunate enough to quite by chance stumble upon the perfect home studio when we moved from New Zealand to Newcastle a couple of years ago. I took this as a sign that now was the right time to really start chasing down that dream of becoming a professional artist. I hadn’t really picked up a paint brush since art school over 15 years ago!! but I just jumped right in and started experimenting and creating again. My true passion has always been abstract art and while my work is at times representational abstraction is what drives me and fuels my creative practice. Every piece I create starts out purely abstract and then more often than not morphs into something more tangible during the making process.

Tell us about the body of work you've created for THIS PLACE. Why have you chosen this particular place?

When I started thinking about creating a series of work for this exhibition I wanted it to relate to the place in which it would be viewed, Orange but also relate to where I’m from Newcastle. So with this in mind I decided to paint the landscapes in between. I’ve driven from Newcastle to Orange twice in the last year. The first trip being at the height of the drought and then in April when the much needed rain had finally come. These paintings seek to represent the changes I noticed and how beautifully resilient our landscape is. I have always been interested in dualities and opposites in my art practice so this was a perfect fit for me . It also gave me the opportunity two work with two contrasting colour palettes.

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