North By East part 2
North Sea Drawings ( Ghost Walk )
In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
North By East part 2
North Sea Drawings ( Ghost Walk )
In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
North By East part 3
East Wind Drawings Land and Sea ( Loss )
In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
North By East part 3
East Wind Drawings Land and Sea ( Loss )
In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
North By East part 3
East Wind Drawings Land and Sea ( Loss )
In collaboration with London based poet Tamar Yoseloff. All text © Tamar Yoseloff 2017 all images and soundtrack © Bill Jackson 2017
 Homecoming (Ghost Tree) |  Homecoming (Ghost Tree) |
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Maverick Green Sofa Sessions 2019
After the burning of the red sofa sometime in 2019 a change was coming. While looking for the red sofa i came across a green sofa covered in hay. It was time to move on and the Green Sofa Sessions was born.
Not unlike early recordings of Country musicians playing on a porch or steps, as exemplified by the excellent series by Ken Burns "The History Country Music", Jackson invited musicians to perform live straight to camera using only one overhead microphone.
They are recorded for posterity for the Maverick Festival archive. All music © the musicians all film material © Bill Jackson Foto Films.
This is only the beginning. Below is an introduction by the Maverick Festival Director Paul Spencer and a message from The Crux to all American music fans.
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions can be seen on Vimeo
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions 2019
After the burning of the red sofa sometime in 2019 a change was coming. While looking for the red sofa i came across a green sofa covered in hay. It was time to move on and the Green Sofa Sessions was born.
Not unlike early recordings of Country musicians playing on a porch or steps, as exemplified by the excellent series by Ken Burns "The History Country Music", Jackson invited musicians to perform live straight to camera using only one overhead microphone.
They are recorded for posterity for the Maverick Festival archive. All music © the musicians all film material © Bill Jackson Foto Films.
This is only the beginning. Below is an introduction by the Maverick Festival Director Paul Spencer and a message from The Crux to all American music fans.
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions can be seen on Vimeo
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions
History
In 2014 I had an idea which I put to the Founder and Director of the Maverick Festival of Americana Roots Music, Paul Spencer. Cutting a long story short i found an old red sofa in a barn and the rest is history as they say. Nearly 200 individual singer / song writers and bands have sat on the Red Sofa. Many of the photographs have been used by the musicians for publicity and some have made their way onto album covers. In 2018 I did the sessions on an iPhone when we couldn't get the red sofa out a barn full of hay bales. Examples of sessions between 2014 -2018 which shows the development of the concept.
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions 2019
After the burning of the red sofa sometime in 2019 a change was coming. While looking for the red sofa i came across a green sofa covered in hay. It was time to move on and the Green Sofa Sessions was born.
Not unlike early recordings of Country musicians playing on a porch or steps, as exemplified by the excellent series by Ken Burns "The History Country Music", Jackson invited musicians to perform live straight to camera using only one overhead microphone.
They are recorded for posterity for the Maverick Festival archive. All music © the musicians all film material © Bill Jackson Foto Films.
This is only the beginning. Below is an introduction by the Maverick Festival Director Paul Spencer and a message from The Crux to all American music fans.
Maverick Green Sofa Sessions can be seen on Vimeo
Bill Jackson
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Early Digital works
Selection of explorations into a cyber world
Digital imagery became very sophisticated pretty quickly, from the black and white 256k Macs of the early mid '80's to 8 bit colour. They were thousands of colours but now of course its millions. The dream of the computer graphics world at the time was the realisation of what was termed as Super Real or Hyper Reality. Personally I was not interested in this clean smooth graphic environment. I preferred to use digital imaging for other reasons. I was very interested in how we see things and this took me to undertake an MA in Electronic Graphics in the late 1980's at Coventry University, the first of its kind in Europe. 3D modelling was a big interest for many. I used the systems of the time to explore virtual worlds both in 3D (not computer modelling) and 2D, both still and moving. There was no digital photography but there was video so a lot of what I did ended up on tape or colour transparencies often used in site specific installations. Sadly a lot of the work did not survive technological change so I only have very pieces that are readable. Her is just a tiny amount of the work I did.
 Blue 2 onscreen 3D interactive audio piece for Sight and Sound Warwick Museum |  Digital neg printed on onion skins coated with liquid light |
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 Head piece for Skin Man V2 and Interactive installation for Synaptica for The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum |  Torso piece for Skin Man V2 and Interactive installation for Synaptica for The Herbert Art Gallery and Museum |
 still from the animation The Return Of the Clones |  still from the animation The Return Of the Clones |
 Onion Man still from the animation The Return Of the Clones |  From Tables of Desire |
 From The Tables of Desire |  From The Tables of Desire |
 From The Tables of Desire |  from The Rosetta Installation |
 From The Rosetta Installation |  Digital painted photograph sketch for The Rosetta Installation |
 From The Rosetta Installation |  From The Rosetta Installation |
 From The Rosetta Installation |