Jaime creates moving image artworks for commission in collaboration with dancers to produce embodied artwork installations based on the idea that we nature. That nature is a sustainable mutually beneficial system of interdependency, our feeling of separation is what has caused the earth crisis and by exploring what being nature feels like will help us adapt and mitigate to the climate and ecological crisis.
‘If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear as it is, infinite. For we have closed ourselves up, till we see all things through chinks of our cavern.’ William Blake 1790 A Memorable Fancy
Arts Council England funded commission for Sluice Berlin a Biennial expo which brings approximately 20 visiting galleries and projects to Berlin. Sluice, in partnership with Das Institut für Alles Mögliche. A colbobartion with dancer Awantika Dupey
Laser Mapped point cloud of Ward End Park made in partnership with Professor Matt Disney, Geography Department UCL
Arts Council England funded commission with dancer Ella-Rose Jones, filmed at Queenswood country part arboretum.
Commissioned for the International Glacial Society’s Ice in a sustainable Society conference, Bilbao, made in collaboration with Professor Sigurður Ægisson University of Iceland and Professor Sergio Henrique Faria Ikerbasque Research Professor at BC3 – Basque Centre for Climate Change (Basque Country).
SEX FOOD DEATH, for 319 Scholes gallery New York City
An AI Machine Learning moving image work from an archive created in response to the ecological crisis by the artist Jaime Jackson with over 300 people at the National Trust’s Brockhampton Estate Orchards Herefordshire. Part of Salt Road’s We Foragers Unquiet Arts Council England funded program. Jaime invited people from Birmingham and National Trust visitors to imagine they were bees pollinating the orchard’s fruit blossoms in April and May 2023.
Moving image and AI, commission for Sluice for Lisbon Art Weekend Sluice and PADA, an interdisciplinary selection of artist and curator-led projects to exploring the impact and interconnections of the ecological, environmental and political consequences of Territorial construction.
Part of the Traders Tracks program, with dancer Will Hodson from 2Faced Dance Company. Filmed at Croft Ambrey and Risbury Iron Age Camps, an Arts Council England funded New Leaf and Salt Road project curated by Dr Sally Payen. Exploring pre-Roman trading pathways inspired by Alfred Watkins early 20th Century Postal Club (Ley) Archive held in Hereford Archives and Record Centre. Croft Ambrey Iron age camp was mapped in June 1921 on Waktin’s first Ley 100 years ago.
An Arts Council England funded motion capture moving image commissioned work for Manchester Contemporary exploring transformation and crisis
A moving image commission for Vivid Projects Black Hole Club Birmingham, collaboration with the Tibetan calligraphic artist Tashi Mannox
A moving image installation loop to be seen horizontally as a table top museum type installation. Part of Outrider an Arts Council England libraries fund set of artist commissions based on the Alfred Watkins bee keeping archive at Hereford library. Never kill the bees is based on Charles Butler’s (1560–1647) classic book The Feminine Monarchie, and a chapter titled ‘ the bees enemies’ originally published by Joseph Barnes, Oxford, in 1609. The title expresses Butler’s main and revolutionary idea that the colony is governed, not by a king-bee, as Aristotle claimed, but by a queen-bee. Never Kill the bees links 17th century wisom with 19th Century invention through Alfred Watkins (originator of the Ley Line theory and inventor of the photographic Bee light meter), with today’s genocide of bees ‘Sub-lethal exposure to neonicotinoids impaired honey bees