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is the law of Life, Number is the law of the Universe, Unity
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What is a biography of the artist? At its purest the best
biography is the work itself - in which the artist is the presence.
Piers Jackson in his work undertakes a meticulous but also passionate
approach as he attempts to offer a path seemingly towards a
fusion of science & faith - With his cubes, his spheres,
his stars & constellations, his sacred geometry, his totemic
birds - the crows that have been a reoccurring motif over an
expanse of more than a decade – and now the new shapes
- the new geometry.
This new geometry began in 2000. I first exhibited Piers' work
in 2005 at ‘Ark’ – an installation that took
place in London Zoo during the Frieze International Art Fair.
Then followed ‘Chthonic Tales’ at the Earl of St
Germans Estate in Cornwall - an event that ran beneath the oldest
continually inhabited house in Britain during the 2006 literary
festival. A few months prior I had also included his Symphony
in Black in Room 9 of Tate Britain as part of New Gothic. It
was right that Piers Jackson’s art was shown in such contexts
– a discipline that befits the context and narrative of
which it is infused. It always struck me, that when so much
contemporary art is at the service of commerce; Piers Jackson’s
work –like only the rare and elusive best - is at the
service of the mind.
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Indeed in November
2006 I witnessed his work at: ‘Mind & Memory’
an exhibition in conjunction with the book launch of 'Mind
- a user's guide' by Professor John G. Taylor Emeritus Professor
of Mathematics at King’s College. Then in December of
2006 I invited Piers to exhibit as part of Toffee Armistice,
which took place during Art Miami Basel. The work I displayed
as a collective: ‘Pop Noir’ of new emerging British
artists. Piers Jackson's totemic Crows provided possibly the
darkest and most beautiful of this Pop Noir - with his obsidian
black pageantry of English crows against a startling gold
relief. Piers Jackson has spent the past two years forming
a new body of work to be exhibited at T1+2 Gallery in June/July
2008.
Martin Sexton
(2007)
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