As a film maker and photographer I seek to suspend time and create place by layering still and moving image resulting in an existential experience of the landscape.
"You are removed from reality and are invited in to contribute to the narrative that evolves before you. I interrogate concepts of time which is crucial to my ideas, exchanging the classic definition of photography as a series of instant glimpses of the world in which we live, to a personal definition of ‘space-time’.
My work as the investigative artist primarily revolves around creating spaces to allow people to take time out from their busy world and to invite them into my secret world. I prefer to see my work not as images or objects but as appearances that reveal themselves over time. I work in the landscape at night from dusk till dawn, especially the time when the light slowly fades only to creep back in at dawn. The weakening hour.
This phenomena of penumbral revelations need time to be discovered. I utilise still, moving and sound responses to take you into a journey of discovery sometimes that discovery becomes a very personal journey. I seek to remind people that magic still exists, the magic of wonderment that we all experienced as a child but have seemingly lost.
I create the conditions for events to take place. I don't direct those events, I just document them.“
Bill Jackson 2023
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS - SOLO
2020
- FLOAT The Cut Halesworth
2015
- Cartographie Luminaire The Cut Halesworth
2013
- Dark Light 1 & 2 Poetry Festival Pond Gallery Snape Maltings and the Peter Peers Gallery Aldeburgh
- Thema Mundi Caroline Wiseman South Lookout Tower Aldeburgh
2012
- Cabinet Of Curiosities Art Projects with Troika Editions London Art Fair
2011
- Cabinet Of Curiosities Troika Editions London
- The Night Hunter Steven Walton Fine Arts Bury St Edmunds
- The Night Hunter VZ Gallery London
2008
- The Night Of The Hunter gallery12 London
- Inside and Out The Market Place Arts Centre Armagh Northern Ireland
2006
- Morphenia and other works gallery12 London
- Morphenia White Room Gallery Leamington Spa
2002
- Punctured Space Commissioned by the Pump Room Galleries
2000
- The Underpool' Warwickshire School of Art
- Tables of Desire University of Warwick
1992
- Mirror "Art on the Move" Spa Centre Leamington Spa
1990
- Iconoclast 1 11 111' Solihull Art College
1986
- New Works Herbert Art Gallery and Museum Coventry
1985
- Bill Jackson Portraits Bill Brandt Room Photographers Gallery London
- Portrait Season Impressions Gallery York
1984
- Love Labours Lost Barbican Centre London Portraits RSC Company
- Retrospective MWC Gallery Leamington Spa
- Circus Print Room Photographers Gallery
1983
- Retrospective Coventry University
- On the Beach The Quay Arts Centre Isle of Wight
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS - GROUP
2023
- Silent Disco curated by the painter Graham Crowley Wickham Market Suffolk
2021
- Bucolia artists include Paul Benney, Sarah Lucus, Mat Collishaw Laurence Edwards, Tim Shaw RA, Don Brown, Gavin Turk
- Sense of Place Eight Photographers The Cut Halesworth
2019
- ShakeArt curated by Jenny Caron Hall
- Moscow Photo Centre MIFA Awards Winners Exhibition
- Affordable Art Fair Hampstead London ArtDog London
- Affordable Art Fair Battersea London ArtDog London
2018
- Belonging Halesworth Gallery PhotoEast Fringe
2017
- Motion PH21 Gallery Budapest
- London Art Fair Design Centre London
2016
- Performance as part of the Halesworth Arts Festival at The Cut
- The Collective House Of St Barnabus London
- Time and Place for PhotoEast Halesworth Gallery
- London Art Fair Caroline Wiseman Modern and Contemporary
2015
- The Weakening Antar Gallery Suffolk
- Re-Fashioned : Garments as Art Old Fire Station Oxford curated by Sarah Mossop
2014
- TimeSlip Fringe Arts Bath
- Five In Focus Norwich and Norfolk Arts Festival Anteros Gallery Norwich
- London Art Fair 2014 Caroline Wiseman Modern and Contemporary
2013
- Persistence Of Vision as part of the Aldeburgh Documentary Festival Aldeburgh
- Benjamin Britten Centenary Artists in Residence Exhibition South Lookout Tower Aldeburgh
- Suffolk Showcase Smiths Row Gallery Bury St Edmunds
2011
- Suffolk Showcase Smiths Row Gallery Bury St Edmunds
- RPS 154th International Print Exhibition Allen & Overy London
- Centre Forward Denver International Airport from the permanent collection of the Center For FIne Art Photography Fort Collins Colorado
- RPS 153rd International Print Exhibition Birmingham Institute of Art and Design
- White Room Dark Room The White Room Gallery Bath
- RPS Members Print Exhibition Oldbury West Midlands
- Portraits Center For Fine Art Photography Fort Collins Colorado USA
- Taylor Wessing Portrait Awards National Portrait Gallery
- RPS International Print Exhibition Banbury Museum
- RPS International Print Exhibition Bonhaga Gallery Shetland Isles
2010
- RPS International Print Exhibition Aberystwyth Arts Centre
- LIP 22nd Annual Exhibition Strand Gallery ( Proud Central ) London
- Homes Group Show Viewfinder Gallery Brixton London
- RPS International Print Exhibition Allen & Overy London
- Floor to Ceiling Show Troika Editions London
- Suffolk Showcase Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery Bury St Edmunds
- World Photographic Award Winners Exhibition Madrid Spain
- RPS International Print Tour Victoria Art Gallery Bath
- International Portrait Exhibition Minneapolis Center Of Photography
- RPS International Print Tour Haworth Art Gallery, Acrington. Lancashire
2009
- The International Portrait selected by Mary Ellen Mark The Center For Fine Art Photography Fort Collins Colorado USA
- Snap to the Grid Los Angeles Centre for Digital Arts USA
- Lip 21st Cottons Atrium Tooley Street London
- RPS International Print Exhibition Tour Wingfield Barns, Eye, Suffolk
- RPS International Print Exhibition Tour Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School, Somerset
- The Documentary Exhibition selected by Ed Kashi The Center For FIne Art Photography Fort Collins Colorado USA
- The Suffolk Showcase selected by Grenville Davey and Lotte Juul Petersen. Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery UK
- RPS 152nd International Print Allen & Overy London
- Corrections Curated by Harriette Lawler and Frank Ettenberg : SomArts San Fransico USA
- Open Book 5 Artists : Valerie Benson, Debbie Booth. Simon Head, Bill Jackson, Anne Robinson @ Pages of Hackney
2008
- Third International Mini Print Exhibtion at Voixvisuelle Ottawa Canada
- White Christmas V11 The White Galleries Leamington Spa and Bath
- LIP 20th Annual Exhibition Selected by Clare Grafik and Paul Hill Atrium Gallery London.
- Snap to the Grid 2008 Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art California, USA
- DigitalArt Expo International 2008 Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art California, USA
- RA Summer Exhibition Royal Academy of Arts London
- Still Life Revisited RPS Contemporary Group Selected by John Blakemore and Cary Williams : Warwickshire Arts Festival
- Trains Planes and Automobiles Center for Fine Art Photography Museum of Contemporary Art Fort Collins USA
2007
- Black and White gallery12 London
- White Christmas V1 White Room Gallery Leamington Spa
- Snap to the Grid LACDA Los Angeles USA
- LIP 19th Exhibition Selected by Mick Williamson and Stefanie Braun - Atrium Gallery London
- International Fine Art Photography Center for Fine Art Photography Museum of Contemporary Art Fort Collins USA
- Mattice Award Exhibition Dangenart Nashville TN USA
- The Brain Project Biblioteca Statale Trieste Italy
2006
- Identita` & Storia Primo Piano Living Gallery Secco Italy
- Orilla 6 Museum of Contemporary Arts Sante Fe Argentina Prize Winner
- Snap to the Grid Los Angeles Centre for Digital Arts USA
- Art of the Digital The Lyceum Theatre Gallery San Deigo USA
- Warwickshire Artsweek Royal Pump Rooms Art Gallery and Museum Leamington Spa
2005
- Print Show White Room Gallery Leamington Spa
2003
- Spectrum iii Worcester Art Gallery and Museum
- Spectrum iii Phillips Gallery - Brewhouse - Taunton Devon
- 'Spectrum iii Q Arts Derby
2002
- 'Spectrum ii Heathcote Arts Nottingham
1999
- Food and Drink Warwick Museum
- Site and Sound Warwick Museum
1998
- Emissions Milverton Gallery Leamington Spa.
1996
- Synaptica Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry
1986
- Selected by British Council for Cultural Exchange to represent British Contemporary Photography
- The Animal in Photography 1840-1986 Photographers Gallery London
1985
- Image and Exploration British Photography : Photographers Gallery London
1984
- Welsh Open 84 Selected Portraits by Angus McBean,theatrical photographer - Ffotogallery Cardiff
1982
- The British Arts Council Collection Beaumanor Hall Leicester part of British Arts Council Purchasing Support Scheme
- Birmingham Artists Midland Arts Centre Birmingham
- Midland Open '82 Midland Group Gallery Nottingham
- 4th Brunel Open Brunel University London
1981
- 3rd Brunel Open Brunel University London
1980
- Fleeting Gestures Selected by Bill Jay ICP Gallery New York, Photographers Gallery London