Stephen Jackson

Stephen Jackson was trained in Psychology, Logic and Metaphysics at St Andrews - only later as a professional artist. Yet both writing and making pictures have been his passion and his escape since about the age of seven.

Imagine being lucky enough to find yourself landed in a near-fantasy career, and then nearly losing everything? Imagine those around you deciding that it was entirely your own fault? At one point or another I've been author or editor of a dozen books as well as a journalist whose features appeared in The Independent, Time Out, Sunday Telegraph and leading national magazines. I was also fortunate enough to work in television films, one of which won Crystal Prize at the Prague Festival; and been cited by BBC Music and Arts as "a writer of the Upper-First Division". And then I fell through the cracks in the pavement.

But it was only in beating my major bout of the Blues in the mid-1990's that I discovered the magical potential of digital imaging to transform our preconceptions of what we imagine the world to be like. It hadn't even existed, when I had been trained as a photographer. Yet now it gave me my chance to chronicle a Phoenix, as I hoped, rising from ashes.

The resulting juxtapositions of my a...

Master's in Psychology, Logic and Metaphysics (University of St Andrews). PGCE (Liverpool University). Training as a Fine Artist and photographer at what was then Sunderland Polytechnic.

Since the late Nineties I've had various group- and one-man shows, including the Royal Arsenal Woolwich and,