Gaye Jackson is a photo-based artist who lives in Toronto. Her photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally and address environmental history, industry, and land use. Her work has been included in publications such as Prefix Photo Magazine and Watch Your Head, Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis, published by Coach House Books. She is a founding member of The Tenth Muse Photography Studio in Toronto and a member of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography. She is interested in traces of history in a landscape such as the wire found in Leslie Spit as remains from the demolition of buildings and community in Toronto from approximately 1964 to 1985. Her work about glacial Erratics exposes traces of geological history and the photograms of old bottles offer clues to a community long gone and northern industrial history. Jackson grew up in a small Ontario town in a family that encouraged exploration and a connection with the land, an upbringing that continues to influence her work.
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Selected Exhibitions
2020 Rogue Wave outdoor installation, Toronto Island, Erratics Revisited
2019/20 Public Art Project, Canadian Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), Toronto
2018 A Space Gallery, Toronto, vitrine exhibition, High Water Watch: defending the flood plain
2015/18 Public Art Project, Greater Toronto Airport Authority, curated by Lee Petri, Terminal 3, Pearson International Airport
2013 35th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Gallery of Mississauga
2012 Points North, solo exhibition, Café Creperie and Gallery, Elora, Ontario
2009 Redux 401, curated by Erin MacKeen Gladstone Hotel, Toronto
Island Narratives Past and Present curated by Delwyn Higgins, Toronto St. Lawrence Market Gallery
The Nicholson Bottles, solo exhibition, INDEXG, Toronto
2008 Drift, two-person exhibition, NewGallery, Toronto
2005 The Nicholson Bottles, solo exhibition, Carnegie Gallery, Dundas, Ontario
Illumination, Group Exhibition, Curated by April Hickox, Prime Gallery, Toronto
Salvage, solo exhibition, Rectory Gallery, Ward's Island, Toronto
2004 Cement Factory, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, US
2003 Water, Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, Bowmanville, two-person exhibition
2002 big/small curated by Christine Swiderski in conjunction with Planet in Focus International
Environmental Film & Video Festival, OCAD Gallery, Toronto
2001 In Stone, solo exhibition, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto
2000 Persistent Documents curated by Ray Cronin, Canadian Consulate, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Quintet, Contact Photography Festival, Tenth Muse Studio, Toronto
Territory, group exhibition, Gallery 1313, Toronto
1998 Persistent Documents, The Photographers’ Gallery, Saskatoon
Selected Work, Din Gallery, Toronto
1997 Persistent Documents, Latitude 53, Edmonton, Alberta
Persistent Documents, Gallery Connexion, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Persistent Documents, Owen's Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB
A Seed in the Pocket of Their Blood, poetry by Rafi Aaron, group exhibition, toured Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Israel, Los Angeles, New York, 1997-2002
1996 Persistent Documents, Floating Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Tenth Muse Collective, group exhibition, Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto
Travelogue, Or Gallery, solo exhibition, Vancouver, BC
Persistent Documents, Le mois de la photo, Montreal,Québec
1994 Travelogue, solo exhibition, Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto
Catalogues/Reviews/Publications
OPzine, November 22, 2020, online publication oceanpounds.com, images from series A line in the sand, 2020
WatchYour Head: Writers & Artists Respond to The Climate Crises, published by Coach House Books 2020
Sonavista Sound, cover and inside images CD Interpenetration, 2016; Confluence, 2017
Prefix Photo 30, Erratics, 2015
THIS Magazine, March/April 2013, images accompanying fiction What the Belgian Wrote by Grace O’Connell
Sonavista Sound, cover and inside images CD Glowing in the Dark, 2012
Sonavista Sound, Aleatoric, 2011, with percussionist Geordie McDonald, a sound and image project
Words in a window, mystery in a bottle, review by Gary Michael Dault, Globe and Mail, August 29, 2009
Cover photograph, Surviving the Censor, the unspoken words of Osip Mandelstam, book by Rafi Aaron, 2006
Message in a bottle, review by Elaine Hujer, The Hamilton Spectator, May 28, 2005
Prefix Photo 10, The Nicholson Bottles, 2004
Catalogue, Water, text by Margaret Rodgers, May 2003
Sonavista Sound, cover and images, Bridge to Everywhere, 2002
Sonavista Sound, cover photograph, Out in the Open, CD by Sonavista Sound, 2001
Documents persist at Canadian Embassy Gallery, The Japan Times, January 30, 2000
LikeSmoke through a Keyhole: Symbolism and Metaphor in Contemporary Photography,David Hlynsky, BLACKFLASH, Vol. 13.2/Summer 1995
Catalogue, PersistentDocuments, Ray Cronin, 1995/94
Journeys into the Heat, Review by Oliver Girling, EYE, Toronto, June 1994
Writing/Performance
Travelogue, performed at Or Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. 1995; Gallery 44, Toronto, 1992
Motel, read on radiofreerainforest, Co-op radio, Vancouver and Banff Centre for the Arts, 1992
The Funeral, a performance about television and death, Company of Sirens Soiree, Toronto, 1988
Man in the Pinstriped Suite, a performance about Bay Street and the Dome, Joseph Workman Theatre, 1987
Emma, a bag lady’s story, A Space; Company of Sirens Soiree; Cabbagetown Festival; Actors’ Lab; Western Front, 1985-88
Private Collections
Canadian Centre for Addiction and Mental Health(CAMH), BMO Financial, Capitol One