KATE jackson

Kate Jackson is an artist and singer/songwriter. She studied English and History and subsequently Fine Art in the concrete and steel city of Sheffield in 1999 and it is there that the Brutalist architecture and DIY music scene forged her identity and formed the band The Long Blondes in 2003.
Her paintings process uses layers of acrylic paint to build up an opaque, graphic surface, eliminating all evidence of the brush. The work appears at first glance to be printed rather than painted. She uses bright, bold, uplifting colours to portray what are often considered to be ugly ‘concrete monstrosities’. Kate uses colour palettes that reference pop music and popular ‘low brow’ culture from British film and TV to highlight the relationship between the two.