Mark Jackson

Moved from Manchester to London in 1985, worked as a freelance illustrator in the fashion, advertising and music industries.

Beginning with a punk photomontage style, he was inspired by the mixing techniques of Hip Hop Djs to turn the colour photocopier into an image mixing desk, before the introduction of DTP. Clients included Vogue, Soul 2 Soul and City Limits.

In 1988, he became joint coordinator of the Tabernacle community grafitti project based in Notting Hill. Where he helped to form 'West London Pressure' Londons first commercial grafitti crew, producing backdrops, banners and graphics for community groups, charities, music promoters and Notting Hill carnival. He still provides graffiti style artwork for KidZbox, a non-contact boxing youth charity.

In 1993, Thames & Huson published his art thesis titled "Strecnology - graffix user manual" under the pseudonym of "Various Artists."

His work was first reviewed by Creative Review in 1988 and showcased in 1994, on the first commercial website - Levi's.

In 1999, he was invited to hold a joint exhibition called 'Hamburger Icons', mocking celebrities of the time, it was reviewed by the Daily Star and Heat magazine.

In 2014, he produced a series of raster graphic images us...

Art & Design Diploma
Stockport Cllege of Tecnology 1977 - 1981
Greater Manchester,

Untold Stories Unseen Realms 1992
Southwark Art Gallery, London
As a contirbuting artist to a Grafitti art exhibition organised by Southwark council and London Union of Youth Clubs