"The sensory seduction of Poppy Jackson’s Untitled stuns. Amid birdsong, smells of melting wax and poster paint, a woman with red bunting wrapped round wrists balances on a birthday cake in the yellowy light of a summer’s day"
REALTIME AUSTRALIA
"A highlight is Poppy Jackson, a performance artist, who gives a bodily show involving thick, black, treacle-like paint and her hair. Commanding her audience throughout the performance, she appears stoic and in control, using the walls of the cell as her canvas, though remaining within them, raising questions of power and heightening the relationship of the audience and the artist."
P&B CULTURAL SHOWCASE
"She presses play - sound of birds. Bare feet hover over the iced cake and then gently press down – cake oozes, cake breaks, cake gets stuck to feet.
Four or five small black wooden sticks (broken) ghetto blaster, blanket, cake, candles, bunting, Crack, crack, crack, crack……the sticks breaking through the bird song. Delicately wraps the bunting round her hands - hands become elongated by bunting, red juice oozes over body. Becoming a bird. Nothing more than necessary.
What is it that is so good about making a mess?"
EEC REVIEW
+POPPY JACKSON+
Poppy makes action-based work using sticks, blood, earth, flags and birdsong. The crossing of thresholds within celebratory rites of transition is embodied live, in pieces exploring transformative states. Painting and drawing underpins her practice, providing a fulfilment for concepts that cannot be executed live.
Poppy was born in Norfolk in 1982, where she later studied Foundation at Norwich Scool of Art & Design before completing her BA (Honours) in Visual Performance at Dartington College of Arts in 2005, and is currently completing a Masters in Performance Making at Goldsmiths, London. She relocated to Belfast, then Los Angeles, and is now based in the Evidence Room of a Police Station turned Art Centre. She acts as a mentor for recent graduates trying to gain visibility in London. A short film for Bafta award winning band Emily Barker & The Red Clay Halo Poppy was commissioned to write and direct has just been released. Since graduation her work has been shown at Project Arts Centre (Dublin), 18th Street Art Centre (Los Angeles), The Detroit Museum of Modern Art, Black Box (Belfast), Arnolfini (Bristol), and The Barbican and Whitechapel Galleries (London).
