Award-winning artist, photographer and filmmaker Alison Jackson sits down with Georgina Godwin to speak about her staged and satiric photographs of celebrity lookalikes, her time as a politician and her planned Donald Trump feature film. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
I'd like to make a multi celebrity magazine, feature film type of thing about the world that we cannot tell what's real or fake anymore because all my work is about how we cannot tell what is real or what is fake and we don't care.
The deliciousness of fantasy and living through the image is so much better.
Hello and welcome to the Big Interview.
My guest today is Alison Jackson, the irreverent, multi award winning artist, photographer and filmmaker, best known for her staged and disturbingly believable photographs of celebrity lookalikes as you might imagine them in their most private and voyeuristic moments.
Since launching her career with a graduation project that nearly got her kicked out of London's Royal College of Arts, Jackson has won numerous awards for her work exploring truth and fiction in celebrity culture.
She's been featured in over 50 international exhibitions everywhere from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art to the National Portrait Gallery in London.
And despite her frequent satire of famous politicians, she recently had a successful stint running as a politician herself.
Her latest show, Truth is Dead at the Photo Museum in Maastricht will be running until the 15th of September and features dozens of her most iconic photographs depicting the likes of England's Royal Family and Elton John to Kanye west and Donna Donald Trump.
I'm Georgina Godwin and I spoke to Alison Jackson on the Big Interview.
What an interesting life and what an interesting person.
Many, many identities, which of course is what your work serves up to us.
But I want to go back to the very beginning.
Tell us about your father.
My father, Gosh, Well, I mean, he was a sort of tyrant of a man, larger than life, great fun, but, you know, with an extremely bad temper as well and extremely mischievous.
So I think that's probably where I got my, you know, provocative nature and mischievousness from.
He was a great believer in boys, so he believed in primogeniture.
And he left everything to my brother because I was a girl.
I was unfortunately was left zero and.
He was a very wealthy man.
He was a very wealthy man.