Bill Jackson

Bill Jackson is a multi award winning film maker, photographer and sound artist. His recent film FOG has been awarded 9 Best Experimental Film awards from Toronto via New York, London and Florence. He is the only photographer to win awards in three consecutive years at the prestigious Royal Photographic Print Awards. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. He recently and continues to do so been working with Chrysalis Records and the Nick Drake archive in producing 23 films for the album, The Songs of  Nick Drake: The Endless Coloured Ways, combining his stills and moving images into one cinematic canvas. He now lives and works in Suffolk which continues to influence and inspire his work.

A conceptualist arts education in the early 70's at Coventry School Of Art, continues to inform his thinking and work practice. Heavily influenced by his photographic tutor at Coventry, Gordon Goode, who introduced him to performance photography. (Goode had been the photographer for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford in its formative years of the 1950’s and ‘60s.) As a child he was fascinated by the world of darkness from the streets of Coventry to the cinema and the stage, and this has ultimately affected his practice.