"Poppy is truly an entrepreneur of her own accord and an integral cog in the wheel of the next generation of performance art not only in the UK but globally."
Hugh O'Donnell
Co-Director
Bbeyond
"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
"I felt how you felt"
Audience member, Project Theatre, Dublin
"Her performances strike a balanceof displaying a universal relevance and being
immersed in their own visual language, turning everyday and found materials into
beautiful alchemical, transformative and other-worldy symbols...onemight consider her
work life-affirming, not in a sentimental sense,but in connecting with the rawness of
physical experience and of life-force itself. I see in Jackson's work a unique aesthetic
drawing from action art, drawing and painting, and doing so from strongly lived, localised
experience. She is an artist who seems to live her work, and whose work emerges from
her life practice."
Dr. Paul Hurley
"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, facilitates workshops and Proffessional Development Projects for emerging artists (her project LIMINAL BODIES was recently supported by Arts Admin and the Live Art Development Agency) and is an Associate Artist of ]performance s p a c e [ in Hackney Wick. 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).
