Jackie Anderson
Jackie Anderson is a New Zealand born mixed media artist working from her sunny Newcastle home studio. She studied visual arts, majoring in painting at the University of Auckland before embarking on travel and adventure in the UK.
It was these years abroad that set the foundation for Jackie's art which is inspired by travel, exploration and the process of journey and story-telling. She is an intuitive and colour driven creative painting a hybrid of real and imagined landscapes.
Jackie's work is characterised by her confident use of colour and abstract shapes and marks. She uses visual imagery to build abstracted and re-arranged landscapes that are unrestricted by traditional notions of scale or perspective. Her paintings are vivid and bold yet on closer inspection reveal stunning subtle details which encourage viewers to ponder and reflect in a more considered manner.
Her true passion has always been abstract art and while her work is at times representational, abstraction is what fuels her creative practice. Every piece she makes starts out purely abstract and then more often than not morphs into something more tangible during the making process.
She was chosen as the Jumbled Art Superstar for 2019 and has also been a finalist in several other Art Prizes including The Fishers Ghost Art Award 2020 and The Lethbridge Landscape Prize 2021. She has exhibited her work in group exhibitions around Australia.
Q and A with Jackie Anderson 2020
Jackie Anderson This Place exhibition catalogue, December 2020.
The Corner Store Gallery - Jackie Anderson