Colette Jackson is an artist living in rural Kilkenny. With an extensive background in costume for film in both Ireland and America, she brings her experience and passion for textiles to each piece. Starting from a fabric base, the artist adds delicate layers of paint and rich fabrics including silk, velvet, vintage materials and handmade lace to create a luminous and textured colour palette. Jackson is motivated by themes of nature and capturing light. This is evident in the use of hand-sewn metallic thread and metallic paint crescendos, resulting in works that are responsive to their surroundings. Jackson endeavours, throughout the creative process, to imbue her practice with an allegorical quality, as influenced by the histories of textile materials and her studies of the natural world around her.

Jackson has exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Chianciano Biennale in Tuscany and the London Art Biennale.

Follow the Jackson on Instagram here @colettejackson25