Central Saint Martins presents

The Sandra Blow Lecture

Vanessa Jackson

Stolen & Contaminated - the form, the function and the ornament

Vanessa Jackson was born in 1953 and studied at St Martin's School of Art 1971-75, and at the Royal College of Art 1975-78. She was president of the New Contemporaries in 1975 and since her first one-person show at the Air Gallery, London in 1981 she has exhibited widely in Britain and abroad, including the New Contemporaries, the John Moores and more recently one person shows at Art Inc, New York (2003), Keith Talent Gallery, London (2005), Studio 1.1 (2005) Poussin Gallery (2006), and at Sadler's Wells Theatre with a 10 metre wall painting commissioned in 2008. Recent Group Shows have been Warped & the Feminine, Angel Row Nottingham
and touring, and participation in shows from Botswana to Bergen, New York to Tokyo.

She was Head of Painting at Winchester School of Art 1988-97, and MA and Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art 1993-2007. She is presently Year Tutor at The Royal Academy Schools. Since being a student at St Martin's in the 1970s, her painting practice has developed an approach to questions of geometry and colour in relation to abstract painting, informed by phenomenological thinking.

Sandra Blow studied Fine Art at Saint Martin's School of Art from 1941-46.When it became known that the Sandra Blow estate had
made a donation to the School of Art we established an annual lecture in her name to acknowledge and remember the vitality of her work and its capacity to inspire future generations.

Monday 10th May @ 6:30 pm

Tickets: Free (max 2 per booking)

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