Lot 135 - Jackie Berridge - Peeps

Oil on primed paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Marta Marsicka

About
My paintings and drawings are inspired by childhood memories, dreams, and traditional stories. I create fantastical landscapes populated with beings and anthropomorphic creatures, telling tales of joy and sadness mixed with shades of darkness.

Education
2018-2019
Turps Banana Correspondence Course, UK

2004-07
MA Children’s Book Illustration, APU Cambridge

1995-1996
Post Grad Certificate in Arts Practice. University of Derby

1992-1995
Fine Art BA (Hons). First Class, Nottingham Trent University

Solo Exhibitions
2024-2025
Flights of Fancy, Enia Gallery, Athens, Greece

2019
Living Rooms, The Angelus Gallery Winchester College, Winchester, UK

2017
Fantastical Landscapes, Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, Derbys, UK

2016
Lost, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough, Wilts, UK

2014
Perfume and Savages, Angears Centre, Lakeside Arts, Nottingham, UK

2012
Short, Sharp, Blow to the Head, Solo Show, Trade Gallery, Nottingham UK

2007
Grace:Sequential Drawings, Frances Bardsley Visual Arts Centre, Romford

2002
Unnatural Selection, Derby Museum & Art Gallery, Derby
Selected paintings, Royal College of Pathologists, London
Extracting Anatomy, The Yard Gallery, Wollaton Hall, Nottingham

Group Exhibitions
2024
Silent DISCO 24, Graham Crowley’s Studio, Wickham Market, Sussex
Royal Scottish Academy Open, Edinburgh, Scotland

2023
No Place Like Home, Arthouse Jersey, Jersey
PLOT at Platforms Project 2023, Athens, Greece

2022
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, UK

2021
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, UK
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London UK

2020
Art-Athena Art Fair, Athens, Greece

2019
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London, UK

2019
Exceptional - graduate award, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London UK
Group Show by 8 Indian artists and 3 UK artists, Reliance Arts Centre, Baroda, India

2018
Back to basics: Painting, ENIA GALLERY, Athens, Greece
When All is Said... and Done', Curated by Artemis Potamianou, Angus-Hughes, London,

2017
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London UK
London Group Open Part 2, Cello Factory, London
Untold, PLATFORMS 2017, Athens

2016
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London UK

Awards
2024
W Gordon Smith & Jay Gordonsmith Award, Scottish Royal Academy

2022
RSA Maude Gemmell Huchinson Prize, Scottish Royal Academy 2022

2019
Exceptional - graduate award, Collyer Bristow Gallery

2016
Nottingham Castle Open - awarded the John E Wright Prize

2014
Tarpey Prize, Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery Open

2013
SKETCH2013, Exhibition Prize, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough

2012
Nottingham Castle Open Prize, Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery Open

2011
Nottingham Castle Open Prize, Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery Open

2007
MA Dragon Prize, Anglian Ruskin University

1995
Leicester Open prize winner, City Gallery, Leicester

Gallery Representation
Enia Gallery, Athens, Greece
Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, Leics

Public Collections
Cambridge School of Art

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
These four paintings are like vignettes of larger work where I create imagined landscapes carpeted with lush trees and dazzling flowers. These provide the backdrop for tiny tales and are inspired by trips to public parks and botanical gardens at home and abroad. Gorgeous colours and exquisite patterns of Indian miniatures have also played a part after a visit to Baroda, Gujarat in 2019.

The cast are an assortment of hybrids, ornaments, toys and her own inventions. Some are ‘precious’ mementos, others are family figures; a few are gifted to find a role in the paintings.

Whilst I have an idea about the narratives, I leave it for the viewer to make their own interpretations.