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. Over the past 10 years she has exhibited widely throughout the UK and has shown work in New York and Palo Alto, California. Jackie has won a number of awards, most recently the Alastair Salvesen Art Scholarship. This travel award will allow Jackie to make new work in Trinidad and Tobago which will be exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy in March 2008.

Her work on this site is grouped to reflect changing concerns and developments. However, the paintings share a concern with colour, tone and reduction. Certain details are carefully described, while others are eliminated, thus allowing room for the viewer to fill in the gaps.

Many of these paintings have been created using almost transparent washes of paint so the surface appears stained rather than painted upon, resulting in an unusually fragile image.

Anderson's portraits dispense with the relationship between artist and sitter, catching her subjects unawares, presenting their most private moments, those spent alone in public. These are works full of movement, too, sometimes doubling a figure to catch a shift in expression, sometimes painting only the place that her subject has been, will be, or, even, might never be. The public spaces through which Anderson's subjects pass are reduced on her canvases to thin shadows and abstracted forms, just as her subjects pass by buildings, cash machines and doorways without seeing them, their surroundings rendered invisible by familiarity. This not only serves to foreground, figuratively and literally, the people painted, it also further absents Anderson from her work as a painter of portraits; the result is a communion between subject and viewer as private as the fleeting moments she has captured

Jack Mottram, 2005

Jackie's full curriculum vitae is available for download: CV [36 kb]*
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