Roy Jackson (artist)


Roy Jackson was an Australian contemporary artist, one of a group of artists based at Widden Weddin, Wedderburn. His work is part of the permanent collections of Artbank, the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and the National Gallery of Victoria.

Early Life, and Career

Jackson was born in England in 1944, moving with his parents to Australia at 15, returning a year later to study at the Sutton School of Art and the Wimbledon College of Art. In 1975, he was one of the founding members of Widden Weddin, a group of artists who built their studios on 25 acres of land in Wedderburn, New South Wales, and this remained his base for 38 years.
Jackson has won numerous prizes including the Fishers Ghost Purchase Prize and the Mosman Art Prize. He has recently been the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the S. H. Ervin Gallery.

Artistic Philosophy

Jackson's work was about “conveying a sense of place or a sense of a sensation”. It was “not sufficient to provide a snapshot of life, in the manner of a realist painter”. Jackson was strongly inspired by the bushland landscape around his Wedderburn home, once saying: "If someone asks me what has influenced me most in my work I simply point to the landscape of this place".