Abby Jackson (born 1982) is a British artist,

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and lives and works in

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. She attended Somerset College of Art and studied advertising. In 2002, as an act of rebellion during her last year at the college, she made a large painting ''Foreign Policy 2000'' of President Bush's head on top of a bare breasted

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whipping

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on all fours. LeKay, John
"Interview with Abby Jackson"
Heyokamagazine. Retrieved 19 September 2009. The college threatened to fail her, but finally gave her a pass degree. In 2005, Jackson joined the international

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and

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in 1999 to promote painting and oppose conceptual art."Glossary: Stuckism"
,

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. Retrieved 19 September 2009. She 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 . Her work was in the Stuckist show, ''"Painting is the Medium of Yesterday" – Paul Myners'', at La Viande gallery in

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in September 2005. In 2006, she supported the

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(DACS) campaign for artists resale rights, taking part in a protest in Whitehall in January, and being one of the four artist representatives to present the petition to

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.Abby Jackson on stuckism.com
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and other artists, who were opposed to the threshold being lowered to encompass emerging artists. In a letter in ''

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'', she said, "A Bill like this will encourage young artists to keep going, even when they can’t afford a studio or a takeaway at the weekend. I don’t want money to go towards a lavish wedding, I need it to continue painting." 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

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, a friend of the club owner. It was then stored under Jackson's bed, until her admiration for Brian Haw's

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peace protest display motivated her in 2006 to donate it to him. Most of Haw's display, including her painting and other art work (one by

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), was later removed by the Metropolitan Police in a dawn raid. Jackson's painting was then copied by

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as part of his recreation of Haw's display; the recreation was exhibited as an installation, '' State Britain'', which opened in January 2007 at

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and won the

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later that year. Jackson commented: :State Britain is a true metaphor of conceptual art, as it's fake. I feel that I and the other people who contributed to Brian's display are the original artists. In 2006 she instigated and co-curated the first show of artists from the Saatchi Yourgallery website, ''Lost and Found'': this took place at the Brick Lane Gallery in East London. Her writing has been published in '' The Face'', ''The Hospital'' and ''Ditched''. In "Still Life v Real Life" in ''

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'', she contrasted the different responses of Stuckist artist

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and

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to the subject of

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: "Tuymans chooses to avoid his subject matter, whereas Howard, as a Stuckist, approaches his subject head on." She said of her own work: :I've taken elements from the childhood fairy tale and the contemporary fairy tale of the celebrity lifestyle, merging the two ideas into work such as ''Death of the Rocks'', which portrays the Disney Little Mermaid slitting her wrists. She 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 (in association with BBC Africa 05), and Peace Camp (curated by

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). In February 2008, she is staging a joint exhibition, called ''Disney Heroines Committing Suicide'', with

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at La Viande gallery in

, London."Disney Heroines Committing Suicide"
La Viande. Retrieved 13 February 2008.

Gallery

Image:JacksonOhWow400.jpg, ''Oh Wow!'' by Abby Jackson Image:JacksonMySecretGarden400.jpg, ''My Secret Garden'' Image:DeathOnTheRope500.jpg, ''Death On the Rope'' Image:ShockAndAwe500.jpg, ''Shock and Awe''

References

External links

Abby Jackson official web site

Abby Jackson on the Saatchi Gallery (Your Gallery)
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