Jackie Berridge Debuts Her First Digital and Physical Art Series

Emerging out of the years of lockdown, Berridge’s recent paintings are focused on dreamlike, landscape settings teeming with fantastical creatures.

Jackie Berridge, Escape Rooms 3, 2019

Unpredictable and at times verging on the psychedelic, the artworks of Jackie Berridgeveer between domestic, pleasant scenes to unnerving fairy tale scenarios. Vivid and pulsating, the works are neither quite places of captivity or sanctuary but transport you into a fantastical world alive with playful narratives and strange, unexpected figures.

Influenced by contemporary pop culture, children’s illustrations and medieval architecture, Berridge collages disparate motifs to create unique idiosyncratic worlds that evade any single interpretation. With their bright chromatic contrasts and abstract patterning, the scenes refuse to resolve into a time, place or coherent pictorial space.

Jackie Berridge, Escape Room, 2019

Jackie Berridge was recently awarded the 2022 Royal Scottish Academy Maude Gemmell Hutchison Prize after exhibiting her work at the Royal Scottish Academy.

Her international exhibitions have included the Enia Gallery, Athens in 2018, the Art on Armitage in Chicago in 2011 and Seoul, Darkness of Light in 2012. Recent solo exhibitions have taken place at The Angelus Gallery, Winchester College, 2019 and at the Rabley Gallery, Marlborough, Wiltshire in 2016.