{{Short description|British photographer}} {{Promotional|date=May 2021}} {{Use British English|date=August 2014}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox person | name = Alison Jackson | image = Alison Jackson 2.jpg | caption = Jackson by Francesco Guidicini, 2015 | birth_name = Alison Mowbray-Jackson | birth_date = {{birth date and age text|15 May 1960}} | birth_place = Hampshire, England | education = Chelsea College of Art and Design<br />[[Royal College of Art]] | occupation = Artist, photographer | website = {{URL|alisonjackson.com}} }}
'''Alison Jackson''' (born 15 May 1960) is an English artist, [[photographer]] and [[Filmmaking|filmmaker]]. Her work explores the theme of [[celebrity culture]]. She makes realistic work of celebrities doing things in private using [[Look-alike|lookalikes]].
==Education== Alison Jackson attended the [[Chelsea College of Art and Design]] in London between 1993 and 1997, and graduated with a [[Bachelor of Arts|BA]] (Hons) in Fine Art (Sculpture).<ref name="BuckmanV1">{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |isbn=0-953260-95-X}}</ref>
From 1997 to 1999, Jackson studied for a [[Master of Arts|MA]] in [[Fine-art photography]] at the [[Royal College of Art]] (RCA) in London.<ref name="BuckmanV1" />
==Career== [[File:BTS NOTHS 2 0205.jpg|thumb|Jackson photographing lookalikes posing as the [[British royal family]]]] In 1999, Jackson created black-and-white photographs that appeared to show [[Princess Diana]] and [[Dodi Al-Fayed]] with a [[mixed-race]] [[Legitimacy (family law)|love child]]. The photographs, titled ''Mental Images,'' were part of her graduation show at the RCA. She has used lookalikes to create photographs and films of celebrities in private situations.<ref name=observer>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2007/jun/17/comedy |title=The real Tony uncovered |work=[[The Observer]] Review |date=7 June 2007 |location=London |first=Simon |last=Garfield | author-link = Simon Garfield |access-date=23 April 2010}}</ref> At the RCA, Jackson won a number of awards including The Photographers' Gallery Award and in 2002, her advertising campaign for [[Schweppes]] drinks won gold and silver awards from ''[[Campaign (magazine)|Campaign]]'' magazine.<ref name="BuckmanV1"/>
Jackson wrote, directed, and co-produced [[BBC Two]]'s 2003 series ''[[Doubletake (TV series)|Doubletake]]'' with [[Tiger Aspect Productions|Tiger Aspect]]. The show won an award at the [[2002 British Academy Television Awards|2002 BAFTAs]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3309591.stm |title=That's Blair and Becks! No wait... |work=[[BBC News Online Magazine]] |date=18 December 2003 |access-date=1 January 2010}}</ref><ref name=guardian1>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jan/23/alison-jackson-royal-wedding-interview |title=Alison Jackson: "I'd love to do Piers Morgan. I'd just use Susan Boyle. They're identical" |work=[[The Guardian]] Review |date=23 January 2011 |location=London |first=Morwenna |last=Ferrier |access-date=11 January 2017}}</ref> She made a series of [[Mockumentary|mockumentaries]] and fake biopics for [[Channel 4]] about public figures, using [[George W Bush]] and [[Tony Blair]] lookalikes in a series of staged scenes of their public lives. ''Blaired Vision'', broadcast on 26 June 2007, coincided with [[Timeline for the 2007 Labour Party (UK) Leadership elections and new Prime Minister|Blair's exit from office]].<ref name=":0">{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/3255670/Photographer-Alison-Jackson-gives-up-hope-of-finding-Gordon-Brown-look-alike.html |title=Photographer Alison Jackson gives up hope of finding Gordon Brown look-alike |work=The Telegraph |date=25 October 2008 |access-date=12 January 2017}}</ref>
Jackson performed a one-woman show, ''Shot to Fame'', in 2018 at [[Soho Theatre]],<ref>{{Cite web|title=ALISON JACKSON : 'SHOT TO FAME' Fake News – Alternative Facts – The gap between the two.|url=https://sohotheatre.com/shows/alison-jackson-shot-to-fame-fake-news-alternative-facts-the-gap-between-the-two/|access-date=2021-03-26|website=Soho Theatre|language=en-GB}}</ref> and ''Double Fake Show'' in 2019 at [[Leicester Square Theatre|Leicester Square Theater]]''.''<ref>{{Cite news|last=Cavendish|first=Dominic|date=2019-03-06|title=Alison Jackson, Leicester Square Theatre, review: an appealing encounter with the doyenne of fake news|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/alison-jackson-double-fake-review-leicester-square-theatre-appealing/|access-date=2021-03-26|issn=0307-1235}}</ref>
Since 2018, she has served as a [[Conservative Party (UK)]] councillor for the Chelsea Riverside ward on [[Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Members |url=https://www.rbkc.gov.uk/committees/Members/tabid/62/ctl/ViewCMIS_Person/mid/384/id/443/ScreenMode/Ward/Default.aspx |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=www.rbkc.gov.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Pes |first=Javier |date=2018-08-27 |title=Alison Jackson, the UK Artist Famous for Mercilessly Satirizing Donald Trump, Is Now a Politician Herself—a Conservative One |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/alison-jackson-politician-1337153 |access-date=2022-04-12 |website=Artnet News |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Art exhibitions== {{Div col|colwidth=30em}} * 1997 Attix Studio Gloucester Road, London, UK * 1999 The Blue Gallery; "Temple of Diana Show" curated by Neal Brown * 1999 The Royal Festival Hall, London; "Articultural Show" * 1999 The Richard Salmon Gallery, London, UK<ref name="BuckmanV1"/> * 2000 Edinburgh Festival * 2000 Art 2000 London * 2000 The Richard Salmon Gallery, London, UK * 2001 Jerwood Space ; "Mental Images", London, UK<ref name="BuckmanV1"/> * 2002 Paris Photo, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France * 2002 The Musee de la Photographie a Charleroi, Brussels, Belgium<ref name="BuckmanV1"/> * 2003 Female Turbulence; AEROPLASTICS Contemporary; Brussels, Belgium * 2003 ICP International Center of Photography, New York * 2003 Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne. * 2003 'Mental Images on War’; The Richard Salmon Gallery, London, UK * 2003 Le Mois de la Photo, Montreal, Canada * 2004 About Face: Photography and the Death of the Portrait; Hayward Gallery; London, UK * 2004 Photo, London, UK * 2004 Election Year 2004; Julie Saul Gallery; New York, U.S.A. * 2005 Superstars; Kunsthalle Wien and BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria * 2006 Mak Museum, Vienna, Austria * 2007 Paris Photo, Hamiltons Gallery, London, UK * 2007 Confidential; M+B Gallery; Los Angeles, U.S.A. * 2008 Starstruck: Contemporary Art and the Cult of Celebrity; The New Art Gallery; Walsall, UK * 2008 Bush with Rubik's Cube Intervention Sculpture; Tate Liverpool Biennial, Tate Liverpool, UK * 2008 Seeing is Deceiving; Hamiltons Gallery; London, UK * 2009 J. Sheekey, London, UK * 2010 Rude Britannia: British Comic Art; Tate Britain; London, UK * 2010 Exposed:Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870; Tate Modern; London, U.K. * 2011 SF Moma, San Francisco, USA * 2011 The Royal Family; Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK * 2011 Peeping Tom, KunstHalle Amsterdam, Nederlands * 2011 Alison Jackson: Up the Aisle; Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK * 2011 Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870; Friedman Gallery, Walker Art Centre; U.S.A. * 2013 Anderson Pertwee and Gold, London, UK * 2013 Fondation D’Entreprise Frances, France * 2014 Centre Pompidou, Paparazzi, Paris, France * 2014 Schon Museum, Frankfurt, Germany * 2015 NRW/Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany * 2016 Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden, Germany * 2016 HG Contemporary, New York, USA * 2016 Culture Station 284, Seoul, South Korea * 2017 London Art Fair, London, UK * 2017 [[Haifa Museum of Art]], Haifa, Israel: "AnonymX: The End of the Privacy Era" * 2018, The Royal Academy of Art, 150th Summer Exhibition,<ref>{{Cite web|title=163 – TRUMP AND MISS MEXICO by Alison Jackson|url=https://se.royalacademy.org.uk/2018/artworks/alison-jackson/163|access-date=2018-09-10|website=se.royalacademy.org.uk}}</ref> London, UK * 2019, Fotografiska, Tallinn, Estonia<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/sep/13/estonian-gallery-told-to-remove-fake-trump-and-diana-billboard-images-alison-jackson Estonian gallery told to remove fake Trump and Diana billboard images] The Guardian, 2019</ref> * 2019 Truth is Dead Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden * 2019 Fake Truth; Westlicht Museum, Vienna, Austria<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.luxtimes.lu/culture/how-the-camera-lies-to-you-and-why-you-don-t-care/1321830.html | title=How the camera lies to you, and why you don't care }}</ref> * 2020 Private; Camera Work, Berlin, Germany<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.meer.com/en/61124-alison-jackson | title=Alison Jackson | date=19 February 2020 }}</ref> * 2020 Soho Revue Gallery, London<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/the-londoner-indecent-trump-statue-is-stuck-in-truck-says-alison-jackson-a4568706.html | title=The Londoner: 'Indecent' Trump statue is stuck in truck, says artist | date=12 October 2020 }}</ref> * 2020-2021 Fake Truth; The Photogallery, Sweden * 2021 Double Take; Coe and Co, Nantucket, Palm Beach * 2021 Truth is Dead; Fotografiska, LA * 2021 True Fictions; Palazzo Magnani, Italy * 2022 IPFO Haus der Fotografie, Switzerland<ref>{{cite web | url=https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/fotomuseum-aan-het-vrijthof-alison-jackson-truth-is-dead/ | title=Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof : Alison Jackson : Truth is Dead | date=27 March 2024 }}</ref> * 2023 The Crown, Grove Gallery, London<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/05/05/royal-high-jinks-charles-and-camilla-lookalikes-take-to-the-streets | title=Royal high jinks: Charles and Camilla lookalikes take to the streets | date=5 May 2023 }}</ref> * 2023 Truth is Dead, NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany<ref>{{cite web | url=https://sneaker.de/news/alison-jackson-the-truth-is-dead-nrw-forum-dusseldorf | title="Alison Jackson: The Truth is Dead" - Exhibition NRW-Forum Düsseldorf }}</ref> * 2023 Paparazzi!, Westlicht, Vienna<ref>{{cite web | url=https://loeildelaphotographie.com/en/fotomuseum-westlicht-paparazzi/ | title=Fotomuseum Westlicht : Paparazzi! | date=28 December 2023 }}</ref> * 2023 Panoramic Festival at Granollers, Barcelona, Spain<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bonart.cat/en/n/44125/the-7th-edition-of-the-panoramic-festival-reflects-on-the-concept-of-quotfacequot | title=The 7th edition of the Panoràmic festival reflects on the concept of "face" - Bonart }}</ref> * 2024 Truth is Dead, Fotomuseum, Holland<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.hollandtimes.nl/2024-edition-1-february/alison-jackson-truth-is-dead-in-fotomuseum-aan-het-vrijthof-maastricht/ | title=Alison Jackson | Truth is Dead in Fotomuseum aan het Vrijthof Maastricht – Holland Times }}</ref> * 2026 Photography in Power (group exhibition), Fotografiska Tallinn, Estonia<ref>{{cite web | url=https://tallinn.fotografiska.com/en/exhibitions/photography-in-power}}</ref>{{div col end}}
==Bibliography== * Private (2004, [[Penguin Books]]; {{ISBN|978-0-14-101918-5}}) * Confidential: What you see in this book is not 'real' (2007, [[Taschen]]; {{ISBN|978-3-82-284638-4}}) *Up the Aisle, (2011, Quadrille publishing) * Stern Fotographie 70 (2012, [[teNeues]]; {{ISBN|978-3-65-200071-0}}) *Private, (2016, published by Alison Jackson)
==Television== Jackson has created many TV shows and was the artist and creator behind [[BBC Two]]{{'s}} 2003 series Doubletake, which she created, wrote, directed, and co-produced with [[Tiger Aspect Productions|Tiger Aspect]], and for which she won and was nominated for [[British Academy Film Awards|BAFTAs]].<ref name="guardian1" /><ref name=":0" />
* 2001–2003 [[Schweppes]] UK: advertising campaign. Created concept, devised ideas and photographed * 2002 ''Doubletake''. BBC2. Created, directed, wrote special. [[BAFTA]] * 2003 ''Doubletake''. [[BBC2]]. Created, directed, wrote and produced 6 part series based on ''Mental Images'' * 2003 ''[[Doubletake (TV series)|Doubletake]]'' Christmas special * 2004/5 ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'', [[NBC]] * 2005 Channel 4: ''Not the [[Wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles|Royal Wedding]]'' * 2005 Channel 4: ''The Secret [[2005 United Kingdom general election|Election]]'' * 2006 Channel 4: ''[[Tony Blair]], Rock Star'' * 2006 Channel 4: ''[[Sven-Göran Eriksson|Sven]]: The Cash, The Coach & his Lovers'' * 2007 [[Channel 4]]: ''Blaired Vision'' * 2008 [[BBC2]]: [[Through the Keyhole]] guest home owner first broadcast on 28 May * 2009 ITV1: ''The South Bank Show – 'Alison Jackson on Warhol'' * 2010: BBC Historical Series * 2011 & 2012 Sky: ‘The Alison Jackson Review’ * 2012 BBC: Celebrity BitchSlap News * 2015 BBC: ''La Trashiata'' – Opera performed at the Edinburgh Arts Festival
== Opera and theatre == * 2015: ''La Trashiata'': [[Edinburgh Festival Fringe|Edinburgh Fringe Festival]], BBC Online and [[Odeon Cinemas|Odeon Cinema]]<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ejh38g/acts/anmfhn "La Trashiata": A Story in the Public Domain], [[BBC]] at the [[Edinburgh Festivals]] 2015</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.channel4.com/michael-crick-on-politics/alison-jackson-la-trashiata-opera-edinburgh4323/4323|title="La Trashiata": satirising celebrity culture the Alison Jackson way|last=Crick|first=Michael|date=22 August 2014|website=channel4.com/news |publisher=Channel 4|access-date=1 December 2015|quote="... a brilliant satire of modern celebrity culture. The Queen, Princes William and Harry; Kate and Pippa Middleton; Putin, Gordon Ramsay, David Beckham, Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi; Madonna and Lady Gaga, among others, all feature in a string of 14 famous, but rewritten, operatic arias.""}}</ref> * 2015: Edinburgh Festival, La Trashiata Opera * 2018–2019: Shot to Fame – at Soho Theatre and Leicester Square Theater with Double Take Show
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons}} * {{Official website}} * {{IMDb name|1887521}} * {{TED speaker}} [https://www.ted.com/talks/alison_jackson_an_unusual_glimpse_at_celebrity "An unusual glimpse at celebrity" (TEDGlobal 2005)]
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