Artist Samantha Jackson talks about how her work addresses what she terms “stoppages,” the holistic aspirations of her multidisciplinary practice, making work unconditionally, and more.

Samantha’s work is a gestural exploration of everyday life and the relationships that emerge between painting, material and site through making. She paints on found materials using water based pigments that allow the image to saturate into the fabric of the painting itself by pooling, staining, and sinking them into the surface of the work. She uses her phone camera as an extension of her body to capture compositions that erode hierarchies of sight and result in fleeting, fragmented paintings that play with the modern nature of images in our habitual lived experiences.

Believing that painting is a shared, lived experience rather than a singular event - her work rewards long looking as a way of fostering intimacy and connection with one another, particularly in the face of wider bureaucratic harm.

Samantha graduated from the Glasgow School of Art in 2023 and the Royal College of Art in 2024.

Samantha’s work: samanthamarionjackson.com

Samantha’s Instagram: @sam_jacksonart