AMI JACKSON
Roads
60cm h x 87cm w
Charcoal, oil, spray paint and card on bread board
Ami Jackson is a Japanese/Irish artist, based in Dublin, and working predominately in print.
She recently received her honours degree in Fine Art Print from the National College of Art
and Design and is the recipient of the Black Church Cabinet Award, 2020 and a member of
the Graphic Studio Dublin.
Born in Nagoya, Japan and educated in Japan, Ireland, and the U.K, Ami’s work draws on
her varied cultural backgrounds, focusing on what it means to belong. In an attempt to
construct the fragile reality of home and the parallel reality of mind, she uses printmaking,
collage, assemblage, drawing and collecting objects to question how these realities coexist
and define each other.
Digital manipulation is also core to her image making process. The relationships between the
drawn or etched line, digital imagery and found material is a key source of inspiration. Her
work examines how the saturated, instantaneous digital world contrasts with meditative,
process-based image making techniques.
She recently received her honours degree in Fine Art Print from the National College of Art
and Design and is the recipient of the Black Church Cabinet Award, 2020 and a member of
the Graphic Studio Dublin.
Born in Nagoya, Japan and educated in Japan, Ireland, and the U.K, Ami’s work draws on
her varied cultural backgrounds, focusing on what it means to belong. In an attempt to
construct the fragile reality of home and the parallel reality of mind, she uses printmaking,
collage, assemblage, drawing and collecting objects to question how these realities coexist
and define each other.
Digital manipulation is also core to her image making process. The relationships between the
drawn or etched line, digital imagery and found material is a key source of inspiration. Her
work examines how the saturated, instantaneous digital world contrasts with meditative,
process-based image making techniques.
What is belonging? How do I construct the fragile reality of ‘home’ and the parallel reality of
‘mind’? How do these realities coexist, relate and define each other? What roles do memories
and thoughts play in anchoring us in space and time?
By dismantling and reassembling, arranging, containing and comparing, my practice seeks
answers to these questions. Through printmaking, collage, built environments, collected
objects, assemblages, miniatures and drawing, I explore my domestic surroundings, my
interior conscious topography and subconscious escapes. I question and challenge the
random, orchestrating connections for narrative and aesthetic purposes.
I explore combinations of everyday objects and events, the subconscious, the ready-made and
the role of creative choice. My work invites interaction and shared participation in the
random moments which make up life, like pieces in a game or puzzle.