Bill Jackson
Conceptual Artist, Photographer, Performer, Foto Filmmaker creating site specific projections, installations and soundscapes
Bill Jackson is a multi award winning film maker, photographer and sound artist. His recent film FOG has been awarded 9 Best Experimental Film awards from Toronto via New York, London and Florence. He is the only photographer to win awards in three consecutive years at the prestigious Royal Photographic Print Exhibition. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. He recently been working with Chrysalis Records and the Nick Drake archive in producing 23 films for the album, The Endless Coloured Ways : The Songs of Nick Drake: , combining stills and moving images into one cinematic canvas. He now lives and works in Suffolk which continues to influence and inspire his work.
As a child he was fascinated by the world of darkness from the streets of Coventry to the cinema and the stage, and this has ultimately affected his practice.
"As a film maker and photographer I seek to suspend time and create place by layering still and moving image resulting in an existential experience of the landscape. You are removed from reality and are invited in to contribute to the narrative that evolves before you. I interrogate concepts of time which is crucial to my ideas, exchanging the classic definition of photography as a series of instant glimpses of the world in which we live, to a personal definition of ‘space-time. Time itself is manipulated/aletered when creating his slow motion films.
My work as the investigative artist primarily revolves around creating spaces to allow people to take time out from their busy world and to invite them into my secret world. I prefer to see my work not as images or objects but as appearances that reveal themselves over time. I work in the landscape at night from dusk till dawn, especially the time when the light slowly fades only to creep back in at dawn. The weakening hour.
This phenomena of penumbral revelations need time to be discovered. I utilise still, moving and sound responses to take you into a journey of discovery sometimes that discovery becomes a very personal journey. I seek to remind people that magic still exists, the magic of wonderment that we all experienced as a child but have seemingly lost.
I create the conditions for events to take place. I don't direct those events , I just document them. “
2024 Suffolk Shorts Day of Film Woodbridge Suffolk screening Plough Monday
2024 Art Station Centre Saxmundham FLOAT, FOG, Silent Garden and a selection from The Endless Coloured Ways
2024 FOLKEAST Blaxhall Sessions Back and Forth The Songs Of Nick Nick Draek : Films "A Skin Too Few" and The Endless Coloured Ways and Live performance by Katherine Priddy and Georhe Boomas
2023 FOLKEAST Music Festival The Endless Coloured Ways
2023 Maverick Festival of Americana Roots Music The Endless Coloured Ways
2023 Milan Film Awards Official Selection for Fog
2023 RED Movie Awards Official Selection for Fog
2023 Tokyo International Cinema Awards Honourable mention for Fog
2023 Cannes Continental Film Festival Finalist Best Experimental for Fog
2023 Hollywood Gold Awards Official Selection for Fog
2023 Paris Film Awards Winner for Fog
2023 London Film Awards Winner for Fog
2023 Florence Film Awards Winner for Fog
2023 New York Neorealsim Film Awards Winner for Fog
2023 Bestov Film Festival Best Experimental finalist for Fog
2023 Frida Film Awards Winner for Fog
2023 8 & Halfilm Film Awards Winner for Fog
2023 Swedish International Film Festival Official Nominee for Best Experimental for Fog
2023 4theatrea Selection Award Winner for Fog
2023 Cult Movies International Film Festival Award Winner for Fog
2023 New York Arthouse Film Festival Official Nominee Best Experimental for Fog
2023 Sunrise Film Festival Official Nominee Best Experimental for Fog
2023 Film Art Spirit Film Awards Toronto for Fog
2022 ART FILM PROJECT works with wit, wisdom and wonder Ballroom Arts Aldeburgh FOG
2022 FOLK EAST Music Festival screened Pink Moon, Secret Gardena and Bug Dance on the Movie Bus
2022 RAFT Festival Horse Hospital London "Imagine" and "Secret Garden" screened as part of Shaun Caton's performance
2021 Deep Focus Film Festival nominee for FLOAT
2021 Nominee Five Continents Film Festival for FLOAT
2021 Semi Finalist Madrid Arthouse Film Festival for FLOAT
2021 Official Selection Vesuvius Film Festival for FLOAT
2021 Official Selection Venice Shorts Film Awards for FLOAT
2021 Official Selection Cult Movies for FLOAT
2021 FLOAT The Cut Halesworth
2020 FLOAT The Cut Halesworth
2020 Man Of Stones Cannes International Independent Film Festival - Semi Finalist
2020 Man Of Stones Carmarthen Bay Film Festival - nominated Best Short Documentary
2019 Venice Revisited Close Up Cinema London with Judy Goldhill and Eileen Haring Woods
2019 Man Of Stones Flipside Festival Suffolk introduction/ feedback preview screening
2019 Man Of Stones Messums Wiltshire private screening
2019 Delete TV Experimental Shorts March
2019 The Venetian Mirror Venice Biennale Palazzo Pesaro Papafava Calle de la Racheta, Italy
2018 Carte Postale collaboration with Dance East and PhotoEast Jerwood Dance Studios Ipswich
2018 Mapping The Unseen RPS Contemporary Regent Park University
2017 East Wind Drawings Aldeburgh Beach
2017 Red Sofa Sessions 2014-2016 Maverick Festival
2017 North By East - parts 1 - 4 House of St Barnabas London
2003 Wish you were here Spectrum ii Nottingham
2003 Spectrum iii Worcester Art Gallery and Museum
2003 Spectrum iii Phillips Gallery - Brewhouse - Taunton Devon
2003 Spectrum iii Q Arts Derby
2002 Spectrum ii Heathcote Arts Nottingham
1999 Site and Sound Warwick Museum
1998 Emissions Milverton Gallery Leamington Spa.
1997 Visions, Music, Text Ambassador New York New York USA
1997 Visions, Music, Text Image Fine Art San Francisco USA
1992 il tuffatore, il nuotatore, affogare Prima Arts Video Festival , Dursley Gloucs. Single Monitor Piece
1989 Silent Trails London College of Furniture and British Craft Council Tour
Selected Exhibitions Solo
2020 FLOAT The Cut Halesworth
2015 Cartographie Luminaire The Cut Halesworth
2013 Dark Light 1 & 2 Poetry Festival Pond Gallery Snape Maltings and the Peter Peers Gallery Aldeburgh
2013 Thema Mundi Caroline Wiseman South Lookout Tower Aldeburgh
2012 Cabinet Of Curiosities Art Projects with Troika Editions London Art Fair
2011 Cabinet Of Curiosities Troika Editions London
2011 The Night Hunter Steven Walton Fine Arts Bury St Edmunds
2011 The Night Hunter VZ Gallery London
2008 The Night Of The Hunter gallery12 London
2008 Inside and Out The Market Place Arts Centre Armagh Northern Ireland
2006 Morphenia and other works gallery12 London
2006 Morphenia White Room Gallery Leamington Spa
2002 Punctured Space Commissioned by the Pump Room Galleries
2000 The Underpool' Warwickshire School of Art
2000 Tables of Desire University of Warwick
1992 Mirror "Art on the Move" Spa Centre Leamington Spa
1990 Iconoclast 1 11 111' Solihull Art College
1986 New Works Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Coventry
1985 Bill Jackson Portraits Bill Brandt Room Photographers Gallery London
1985 Portrait Season Impressions Gallery York
1984 Love Labours Lost Barbican Centre London Portraits RSC Company
1984 Retrospective MWC Gallery Leamington Spa
1984 Circus Print Room Photographers Gallery
1983 Retrospective Coventry University
1983 On the Beach The Quay Arts Centre Isle of Wight
Selected Exhibitions Group
2024 Lay OF The Land Guildhall and Fermoy Gallery Kings Lynn
2024 Snape Contemporary Open Snape Maltings Snape Suffolk
2023 Silent Disco curated by the painter Graham Crowley Wickham Market Suffolk
2021 Bucolia artists include Paul Benney, Sarah Lucus, Mat Collishaw Laurence Edwards, Tim Shaw RA, Don Brown, Gavin Turk
2021 Sense of Place Eight Photographers The Cut Halesworth
2019 ShakeArt curated by Jenny Caron Hall
2019 Moscow Photo Centre MIFA Awards Winners Exhibition
2019 Affordable Art Fair Hampstead London ArtDog London
2019 Affordable Art Fair Battersea London ArtDog London
2018 Belonging Halesworth Gallery PhotoEast Fringe
2017 Motion PH21 Gallery Budapest
2017 London Art Fair Design Centre London
2016 Performance as part of the Halesworth Arts Festival at The Cut
2016 The Collective House Of St Barnabus London
2016 Time and Place for PhotoEast Halesworth Gallery
2016 London Art Fair Caroline Wiseman Modern and Contemporary
2015 The Weakening Antar Gallery Suffolk
2015 Re-Fashioned : Garments as Art Old Fire Station Oxford curated by Sarah Mossop
2014 TimeSlip Fringe Arts Bath
2014 Five In Focus Norwich and Norfolk Arts Festival Anteros Gallery Norwich
2014 London Art Fair 2014 Caroline Wiseman Modern and Contemporary
2013 Persistence Of Vision as part of the Aldeburgh Documentary Festival Aldeburgh
2013 Benjamin Britten Centenary Artists in Residence Exhibition South Lookout Tower Aldeburgh
2013 Suffolk Showcase Smiths Row Gallery Bury St Edmunds
2011 Suffolk Showcase Smiths Row Gallery Bury St Edmunds
2011 RPS 154th International Print Exhibition Allen & Overy London
2011 Centre Forward Denver International Airport from the permanent collection of the Center For FIne Art Photography Fort Collins Colorado
2011 RPS 153rd International Print Exhibition Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
2011 White Room Dark Room The White Room Gallery Bath
2011 RPS Members Print Exhibition Oldbury West Midlands
2011 Portraits Center For Fine Art Photography Fort Collins Colorado USA
2011 Taylor Wessing Portrait Awards National Portrait Gallery
2011 RPS International Print Exhibition Banbury Museum
2011 RPS International Print Exhibition Bonhaga Gallery Shetland Isles
2010 RPS International Print Exhibition Aberystwyth Arts Centre
2010 LIP 22nd Annual Exhibition Strand Gallery ( Proud Central ) London
2010 Homes Group Show Viewfinder Gallery Brixton London
2010 RPS International Print Exhibition Allen & Overy London
2010 Floor to Ceiling Show Troika Editions London
2010 Suffolk Showcase Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery Bury St Edmunds
2010 World Photographic Award Winners Exhibition Madrid Spain
2010 RPS International Print Tour Victoria Art Gallery Bath
2010 International Portrait Exhibition Minneapolis Center Of Photography
2010 RPS International Print Tour Haworth Art Gallery, Acrington. Lancashire
2009 The International Portrait selected by Mary Ellen Mark The Center For Fine Art Photography Fort Collins Colorado USA
2009 Snap to the Grid Los Angeles Centre for Digital Arts USA
2009 Lip 21st Cottons Atrium Tooley Street London
2009 RPS International Print Exhibition Tour Wingfield Barns, Eye, Suffolk
2009 RPS International Print Exhibition Tour Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School, Somerset
2009 The Documentary Exhibition selected by Ed Kashi The Center For FIne Art Photography Fort Collins Colorado USA
2009 The Suffolk Showcase selected by Grenville Davey and Lotte Juul Petersen. Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery UK
2009 RPS 152nd International Print Allen & Overy London
2009 Corrections Curated by Harriette Lawler and Frank Ettenberg : SomArts San Fransico USA
2009 Open Book 5 Artists : Valerie Benson, Debbie Booth. Simon Head, Bill Jackson, Anne Robinson @ Pages of Hackney
2008 Third International Mini Print Exhibtion at Voixvisuelle Ottawa Canada
2008 White Christmas V11 The White Galleries Leamington Spa and Bath
2008 LIP 20th Annual Exhibition Selected by Clare Grafik and Paul Hill Atrium Gallery London.
2008 Snap to the Grid 2008 Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art California, USA
2008 DigitalArt Expo International 2008 Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art California, USA
2008 RA Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts London
2008 Still Life Revisited RPS Contemporary Group Selected by John Blakemore and Cary Williams : Warwickshire Arts Festival
2008 Trains Planes and Automobiles Center for Fine Art Photography Museum of Contemporary Art Fort Collins USA
2007 Black and White gallery12 London
2007 White Christmas V1 White Room Gallery Leamington Spa
2007 Snap to the Grid LACDA Los Angeles USA
2007 LIP 19th Exhibition Selected by Mick Williamson and Stefanie Braun - Atrium Gallery London
2007 International Fine Art Photography Center for Fine Art Photography Museum of Contemporary Art Fort Collins USA
2007 Mattice Award Exhibition Dangenart Nashville TN USA
2007 The Brain Project Biblioteca Statale Trieste Italy
2006 Identita` & Storia Primo Piano Living Gallery Secco Italy
2006 Orilla 6 Museum of Contemporary Arts Sante Fe Argentina Prize Winner
2006 Snap to the Grid Los Angeles Centre for Digital Arts USA
2006 Art of the Digital The Lyceum Theatre Gallery San Deigo USA
2006 Warwickshire Artsweek Royal Pump Rooms Art Gallery and Museum Leamington Spa
2005 Print Show White Room Gallery Leamington Spa
2003 Spectrum iii Worcester Art Gallery and Museum
2003 Spectrum iii Phillips Gallery - Brewhouse - Taunton Devon
2003 'Spectrum iii Q Arts Derby
2002 'Spectrum ii Heathcote Arts Nottingham
1999 Food and Drink Warwick Museum
1999 Site and Sound Warwick Museum
1998 Emissions Milverton Gallery Leamington Spa.
1996 Synaptica Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry
1986 Selected by British Council for Cultural Exchange to represent British Contemporary Photography
1986 The Animal in Photography 1840-1986 Photographers Gallery London
1985 Image and Exploration British Photography : Photographers Gallery London
1984 Welsh Open 84 Selected Portraits by Angus McBean,theatrical photographer - Ffotogallery Cardiff
1982 The British Arts Council Collection Beaumanor Hall Leicester part of British Arts Council Purchasing Support Scheme
1982 Birmingham Artists Midland Arts Centre Birmingham
1982 Midland Open '82 Midland Group Gallery Nottingham
1982 4th Brunel Open Brunel University London
1981 3rd Brunel Open Brunel University London
1980 Fleeting Gestures Selected by Bill Jay ICP Gallery New York, Photographers Gallery London