Heidi Jackson was born in Freetown, Sierra Leone in 1970. Her childhood was defined by constant movement around the world. Her early years in New Zealand were frequently interspersed with life in Europe and West Africa. She eventually settled in Canberra, Australia, in the mid 1980’s.
Her work is always a personal response to place. Her paintings compress fleeting moments or render more sustained experiences of the landscape into compositions that are defined by tracts of sky, bodies of water, country roads and the personally significant destinations they lead to.
Her more recent work uses an indicative and imagined series of visual codes that refer to the landscape of the Antipodes. Patterns, colour, and linear elements refer to sensations, space, and forms flattened and compressed into a scene. The density and impenetrable thickets of trees interlink with networks of growth, and an attempted organisation of the landscape is juxtaposed against the beautiful chaos of the natural world.
She lives and works in Sydney, Australia and is the current Head of the SCEGGS Visual Arts Department.
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