Alison Jackson

Alison Jackson (born 15 May 1960) is an English artist, photographer and filmmaker. Her work explores the theme of celebrity culture. She makes realistic work of celebrities doing things in private using lookalikes.

Education Alison Jackson attended the Chelsea College of Art and Design in London between 1993 and 1997, and graduated with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (Sculpture).

From 1997 to 1999, Jackson studied for a MA in Fine-art photography at the Royal College of Art (RCA) in London. 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. She made a series of 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 Blair's exit from office.

Jackson performed a one-woman show, Shot to Fame, in 2018 at Soho Theatre, and Double Fake Show in 2019 at Leicester Square Theater.

Since 2018, she has served as a Conservative Party (UK) councillor for the Chelsea Riverside ward on Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea.

Art exhibitions

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 London, UK 2019, Fotografiska, Tallinn, Estonia 2019 Truth is Dead Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden 2019 Fake Truth; Westlicht Museum, Vienna, Austria 2020 Private; Camera Work, Berlin, Germany 2020 Soho Revue Gallery, London 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 2023 The Crown, Grove Gallery, London 2023 Truth is Dead, NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany 2023 Paparazzi!, Westlicht, Vienna 2023 Panoramic Festival at Granollers, Barcelona, Spain 2024 Truth is Dead, Fotomuseum, Holland 2026 Photography in Power (group exhibition), Fotografiska Tallinn, Estonia