Terry Jackson (artist)
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Early Life
Teresa Ann Jackson (born on 20 October 1958 in Gawler AustraliaAustralia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
) is an award winning Wildlife Artist living in Adelaide South Australia.
Terry spent most of her adult life bringing up a family and began drawing when her children left home at the age of 47. Art was always an interest though, she produced some acrylic paintings and an interesting sculpture of a fist carved from of a piece of sandstone. She enjoyed arts and crafts helping out at her local primary school and helped decorate the sets and programs for the local Drama Group.
Although her focus is with her art work, in 2002 she had a short poem called "Senses"
published in a book called "Of Laughter and Forgetting".
Her entry into graphite art began when she was given a print of a lion in graphite by UK artist Gary Hodges
Gary Hodges
Gary Hodges is also the name of a member of The 4-Skins.Gary Hodges is a British artist and publisher much admired internationally for his graphite pencil wildlife art...
. From then on, she started drawing with more focus using wildlife as her main subject.
She entered the Campbelltown
City of Campbelltown (South Australia)
The City of Campbelltown is a Local Government Area in the north eastern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia about 6 kilometres from the Adelaide GPO. The City is bordered by the River Torrens and the City of Tea Tree Gully, the District of Adelaide Hills, the City of Burnside, the City of Norwood...
Council art show
in April 2007 with a piece called "Pride and Joy" (see below) which won "Peoples Choice Award".
Waterhouse Art Prize
Terry first entered the prestigious Waterhouse Natural History Art PrizeWaterhouse Natural History Art Prize
The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize is the richest prize for natural history art in Australia. It is named after Frederick George Waterhouse, who was the first curator of the South Australian Museum...
in May 2008 with a piece called "Happy Endings" (see below)
. This was a finalist in the section "Works on Paper" and judged "Highly Commended". The piece was then taken to Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
where it was exhibited in the National Archives of Australia
National Archives of Australia
The National Archives of Australia is a body established by the Government of Australia for the purpose of preserving Commonwealth Government records. It is an Executive Agency of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and reports to the Cabinet Secretary, Senator Joe Ludwig.The national...
along with the other prize winning entries.
She was also a finalist in 2010
where her piece "Not So Different" (see below) was used in advertising material and a finalist (again judged Highly Commended and exhibited in Canberra
Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
) in 2011 with her piece called "Small Parts - Big Picture"
. This piece is a collection of detailed drawings of parts of an elephant arranged to be perceived as the whole animal. Although the majority of the collection uses graphite as in her earlier works, Terry used coloured pencil in the central piece to bring the collection to life.
Other Achievements
In August 2009, she held an exhibition of more than 30 art works as a part of the South Australian Living Artists FestivalSouth Australian Living Artists Festival
The South Australian Living Artists Festival is an annual free visual arts festival in the city of Adelaide.The SALA festival includes open art studios, moving-image based art, and public art events across South Australia....
(SALA) Festival at the Old Adelaide Gaol
Adelaide Gaol
Adelaide Gaol was an Australian prison located in Thebarton, South Australia, Australia. The gaol was the first permanent one in South Australia and operated from 1841 until 1988...
. In August 2010 she again took part in the SALA festival exhibiting this time in the Santos Conservation Centre at the Adelaide Zoo
Adelaide Zoo
Adelaide Zoo is Australia's second oldest zoo, and the only major metropolitan zoo in Australia to be owned and operated on a non-profit basis. It is located in the parklands just north of the city centre of Adelaide, South Australia. It is a full institutional member of the Zoo and Aquarium...
.
One of her earlier works "Tusk" was the subject of a critique by Eric Tilden
in August 2009.
The Australian art magazine "Artists Palette"
featured Terry's work in issue 91 (October 2010) including a demonstration of how she produced her work "Group Hug". The article noted "Very few artists are capable of exploiting the potential of pencils with as much creative flair and unmitigated skill as this talented South Australian"
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See also
- :Category:Animal artists
- List of wildlife artists