JAIME JACKSON

Jaime Jackson is a collaborative biophilic (love of nature) digital and relational artist. His practice uses digital technologies including Machine Learning AI, Motion Capture, Augmented Reality and moving image (film) as well as painting and drawing. His work responds to the climate and ecology crisis by exploring the gap and separation from the natural world that people experience today. Born in Oxford he has a degree in Fine Art Painting from Coventry University and trained in Arts Management at Sussex University. Jaime has recently shown artwork at Latitude, Kingdom Project, Bloomsbury festival, Ikon Gallery and Sluice Berlin, his last exhibition for sluice.info was at AMP gallery, London.

He is a coordinator  of Culture Declares Emergency and a member of Climate Museum UK, Director of the visual art organisation Salt Road  and the environmental charity New Leaf

Jaime collaborates with climate and ecology crisis scientists, including sociology, human and environmental geography, marine science, ethnobotany and eco psychology.  He develops collaborative art practices to communicate and interpret climate change science through the lens of biophilia (love of nature).

Drawing, part of a data set of 60 portraits of people with trees for a Machine Learning generated moving image work

 

Jaime engages communities in digital environmental projects through relational practice Jaime stages digital and traditional interventions in this gap, to re-imagine or re‐connect these biophilic onnections with nature via contemporary art using moving image installations and architectural projections.

Jaime founded Phoenix Gallery and Studios in Brighton (1991), which provides studio spaces and workshops for over 100 artists and runs a visual art exhibition program.