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I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

~Alison Jackson

Topics: Also Art Artist Books Concept Contemporary Films Galleries Make Museums Number Photographs Programs Same Show Some Television

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I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

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I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person.

~Alison Jackson

Topics: About Am Angle Caricatures Cartoons Create Creating Different How Live More Nature Perception Person Photography Satirical Through Traditional Twist Way You I Am

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I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have such a good camera.

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Topics: Camera Canon Certainly Exactly Far First Gave Good How Me Old Parents Remember Too Young

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I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me.

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Topics: Age Being Big Country Decided Down Had House Housewife Me Mind Parents Quite Settle Think Would Young Young Age I Think

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I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him.

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Topics: About Am Beans Because Blank Certain Certain Extent Extent Fabulous Family Fascinated Fascinating Find He Him Know Less Much Mystique Prince Queen Represent Royal Royal Family Too Too Much Wales William I Am

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I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me. I wanted to leave the country, head for London and see what the world had to offer.

~Alison Jackson

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I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

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I'd like to take more pictures of real celebrities. It would be fabulous to photograph Brad Pitt. He's so good-looking and just such a star.

~Alison Jackson

Topics: Brad Brad Pitt Celebrities Fabulous Good-Looking He Just Like More Photograph Pictures Pitt Real Star Take Would

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There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We see them on magazine covers so often that we think we know them intimately, and we want to learn more. I like to burst that bubble a little.

~Alison Jackson

Topics: Around Bubble Burst Celebrities Covers Know Learn Like Little Magazine Makes More Myth Often Really See Them Think Us Wall Want Wonder

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Artist

Born: May 15th, 1960

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