Jackie Raybone

Fine Artist

Jackie has exhibited and sold her fine artwork in commercial galleries and museums, alongside curating site-specific installations and group exhibitions in artist-led events. Notable shows include the Jerwood Drawing Prize and Threadneedle Prize.

She has twenty years of experience of working in secondary schools and sixth form colleges, teaching Fine Art, Design and Photography, leading a vocational Art & Design curriculum, and supporting students in pastoral, inclusion, and safeguarding roles.

Education

MA Fine Art: Drawing: UAL (University of the Arts London), 2010

Qualified Teacher Status: Art & Design: Age 11-18, 2002

PGCE (Art & Design; Age 11-18): University of Brighton, 2001

BA (Hons) Art & Design (Painting & Photography): Bradford College of Art, 2000, (2:1)

Statement

As an urban dweller the landscape of the city provides a rich source of subject matter for developing my creative ideas. Themes explored in my fine art practice include reflections on how economic and social systems impact relational power dynamics and our connection with the natural world.

For visual research I use photography, video and sketching to gather inspiration, capturing the subjects of commuting crowds, architectural structures, and nocturnal scenes, to develop into paintings. I apply paint to canvas expressively and intuitively, scraping back layers of glaze to explore juxtapositions of geometric angles, voids, and vivid acid colours.

My drawing practice involves working from life or from film footage, using a process of combining figurative gestural marks with diary-like writing to record snippets of overheard conversations and the atmosphere of a place. In my more intimate works I explore autobiographical themes and memories. I work with mixed media, layering fragments of delicate materials such as tracing paper, which lends an ephemeral quality.

My theoretical research has focussed on documentary photography, fine art, and film that seeks to acknowledge lived experiences and empower marginalised perspectives, and my visual practice is informed by studies in Psychogeography, Oral History, and The Everyday. Artist influences include Julie Mehretu, Hongxi Li, Edward Hopper, Leon Kossoff, Gerhard Richter, Grayson Perry, Jeremy Deller, Jo Spence, and Ian Breakwell.