Amy Jackson

Jacqueline Amy Jackson (born 1986) is a British artist who lives and works in East London. She graduated in 2008 from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford, England and later returned to study Sustainable Finance at Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford. Biography Jackson is a conceptual artist and curator who explores issues such as climate change, consumerism, mental health, social inequalities and how these themes are inextricably linked. She describes her practice as conceptual due to the fact the idea bears more significance than the medium, it includes street art, happenings, drawing, photography, painting and found objects. Alongside her contribution to contemporary art and curation, she is known for her work in responsible investment. Early life Jackson was born in Leeds in 1986 to Alexander G. Jackson, a Jewish father from Leeds, and Jacqueline Jackson, a Christian mother from Doncaster. She attended Leeds Girls’ High School until the age of 18 where she learned drama, piano, clarinet, trombone and saxophone and achieved the PFA Prize for Art and Helena Langhorne Powell Scholarship. She then read Fine Art at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford where she was one of only three students to achieve a first-class degree in 2008. Big Brother In 2008, Amy Jackson entered Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack, a special series of the reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother. It was broadcast on E4 from 3–28 January 2008. The premise of the series saw one celebrity a day taking control, with the help of Big Brother; organising their own tasks, making their own rules and talking to the housemates in the Diary Room. They were in charge of a set of housemates who all had a specific talent or profession.