Chris Jackson / Work

New Work

Spontaneous forms and outgrowths from the hermetic, boundless world of the studio...
Story Time

These works are inspired by a visit to Ironbridge Gorge in the Black Country where I found myself gazing up at the manifestly experimental architecture of the famous bridge (the first structure in the world to prove iron could be used on such a scale) and had an overwhelming sense of the paradoxical nature of our human relationship with time and technology...
Installations

These works represent vessels or vehicles which seem to be marooned in some subterranean or domestic setting, awaiting new occupants for possible journeys beyond the confines of the gallery space...
Sunken City

Based on Maarten Van Heemskerk(1498-1574)’s engravings of The Seven Wonders of the World these digital images present a crumbling, illusory pantheon of the everyday...
Pasta Panels

Using dried pasta and cardboard this series of works examines definitions of quality and status...