Artist Biography

Poppy Jackson makes work that explores the female body as an autonomous zone.

Jackson is an internationally practicing visual and performance artist & “leader in women’s activism” (Global Healthcare Alliance NGO Aarogya Seva). The artist works in performance, painting, sculpture and printmaking: public space and architecture in relation to the body are key research areas.

Jackson’s performances employ the impact & power of the live body & have excited discussion worldwide on the body in art; being disseminated in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Independent, ArtReview, BBC 2 & Radio 4.

“Jackson’s work has the potential to radically alter conservative conceptions of the female body”

Dazed Magazine - ‘Got Some Spare Menstrual Blood? This Artist Wants It’

One of ‘Europe’s 27 leading contemporary women artists’ (Artsy/Her Stories/Elle Magazine), Jackson’s political, socially conscious practice deals with difficult topics in radical yet accessible ways so that every audience can engage. She is interested in the innate performativity of the body and explores this through presenting her own body itself as site.

“Jackson's piece is definitely art – beautiful, disturbing and disruptive. She is a formidable figure, not to be messed with, gazing across the contemporary city as if protecting it”

The Guardian, ‘Naked artist Poppy Jackson Straddles the Personal and Political’

Jackson gained a BA (Hons) from Dartington College of Arts and MA from Goldsmiths, University of London. Work has been presented at The Barbican and Whitechapel Gallery (London), Grace Exhibition Space (New York), Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery (Chicago), Spider International Festival of Dance (Ljubljana). Lectures delivered at The Royal College of Art, School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, NHS Hospitals Bristol and The Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Arts Council England and British Council awards, for UK-US projects reaching beyond the bounds of art, have reimagined participants experiencing of their own bodies.   

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All images © 2010-2020 Poppy Jackson