BA Fine Art work by Molly Jackson showing a painting of two pairs of legs and a wheelchair on paper, on square steel background.
Award Winner

My work navigates existentialism, misanthropy, shyness, and non-verbalism through painting and installation. I have always had an intense care for animals and throughout my life have been aware of the problems of domestication and human interference, but more prominently for me, the difficulty of relating to their fear without humanising them. This is crucial to my work’s context.

BA Fine Art work by Molly Jackson showing a framed brown painting of stick-like trees growing musical notes. Below, a black and white photo.

Alongside my sustained painting practice (for which I was nominated for the Freelands Painting Prize 2022), I explore incoherence and obstruction through creative writing, accessing the more direct communicative form to emphasise the element of language in my physical work. This is a relationship I explore through the curation of text and image in self-made publications.

BA Fine Art work by Molly Jackson showing a painting of four rounded shapes. Surrounded by a black velvet frame. Marquetry hooves mounted centrally at the bottom of the painting.
Award Winner

My creative practice is supported by collaborative projects too. Currently I’m involved with a research project ‘Animals|Illness’, which has so far included a public exhibition ‘as sick as a dog parrot’ in Diss.

Awarded the Vernon Crowther Prize for Fine Art 2022

BA Fine Art work by Molly Jackson showing a view from above of a wooden shelf with a pair of white rabbit ears and photograph of scattered feathers on grass.