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Jackie Anderson is an artist based in Glasgow. She has a degree in Sociology from Aberdeen University and a MFA from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee (2002). She has exhibited widely throughout the UK, in New York and California. Jackie has won a number of awards for her work, including the Alastair Salvesen Art Scholarship which allowed her to make work in Trinidad and Tobago. She is a two time recipient of the international Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Scholarship. Her work is in The Fleming Collection and the collections of the Royal Scottish Academy and Royal Bank of Scotland
Statement
Many of Jackie’s paintings are of strangers in public places. Waiting at bus stops, people are reflected in the windows of buses that are not for them. In shop windows the reflections of strangers are layered over others that they may have glimpsed briefly, or may not have seen at all.
In her latest works gestural brushstrokes and near transparent washes of paint describe fleeting moments from car and train journeys. Solid structures become fluid while raindrops and reflections evoke the interior environment. Passengers are captured unawares, lost in their thoughts, merged with the landscape they are passing through.
‘She knows, like a writer, that the right descriptive detail makes a character breath’ - The Scotsman.
‘A rare blend of accessibility and a complex, subtle set of conceptual concerns’ - The Herald
‘striking, evocative images’ - Scottish Art News
Education
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, 2001-02
Master of Fine Art
University of Aberdeen, 1991-95
MA (Hons) Sociology
Solo Exhibition - 2017
Open Eye Gallery - Edinburgh
Hicks Gallery, London - 2016
Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh - 2015
Susan Eaton and Jackie Anderson - 2014
House of an Art Lover, Glasgow
'Homecoming' - 2013
Victor Felix Gallery, London
Beaux Arts - 2012, 2011
'Artists of Fame and Promise', Bath
'Alone together' - 2011
Solo exhibition, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
'Scottish Summer Exhibition' - 2010
The Fleming Collection, London
Jackie Anderson and Andrew Mackenzie - 2008
Amber Roome Contemporary Art, Edinburgh
Threadneedle Figurative Prize - 2008
Mall Galleries, London
'After Carnival' - 2008
Alastair Salvesen Art Scholarship Solo Exhibition
Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh
BP Portrait Award - 2008, 05, 03, 02, 01
National Portrait Gallery, St Martins Place, London
Firm Favourites, Highlights and Recent Acquisitions from the Fleming
Collection - 2007
The Fleming Collection, London
Celeste Art Price Finalist Exhibition - 2006
Old Truman Brewery, London
'Face Value' - 2006
Chelsea Art Gallery, Palo Alto, California, USA
Solo Exhibition - 2005
Amber Roome Contemporary Art, Edinburgh
'in-between' - 2005
Two person exhibition with Toby Messenger, curated by Tramway
Intermedia, Trongate, Glasgow
Head Strong - 2003
Victor Felix Gallery, London
Fresh Paint - 2003
Maclean Fine Art, London
Masters Expo - 2003
Generator Projects, Mid-Wynd, Dundee
Noble and Grossart Painting Prize, Finalists Exhibitions - 2000
Royal Academy, Edinburgh
Awards
Elizabeth Greenshield Foundation Scholarship, 2001, 2016
Alastair Salvesen Art Scholarship
Dundee Visual Artists Award, 2004
Linda Clarke Nolan Award, 2002
The City of Glasgow Prize, 2000
The David Cargill Prize, 2000
