BOLDtalks's video: The Message Behind Alison s Spoof Photography - BOLDtalks 2017

Alison Jackson is a BAFTA and multi-award winning contemporary artist who explores the cult of celebrity – an extraordinary phenomenon created by the media and publicity industries. Jackson makes convincingly realistic work about celebrities doing things in private using lookalikes. Likeness becomes real and fantasy touches on the believable. She creates scenarios we have all imagined but never seen before – the hot images the iPhoners and the media can’t get. Jackson raises questions about whether we can believe what we see when we live in a mediated world of screens, imagery and Internet. She comments on our voyeurism, on the power and seductive nature of imagery, and on our need to believe. Her work has established wide respect for her as an incisive, funny and thought-provoking commentator on the burgeoning phenomenon of contemporary celebrity culture. Jackson works across all media and arts platforms in TV, books, branded content, press, social, and is widely exhibited in galleries and museums, attracting extensive interest in the press and on TV. Her images themselves have become just as much a part of popular culture as images of the real celebrities. Most recently Jackson wrote and directed the successful topical, 'celebrity’ magazine show opera for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with exclusive screenings on the BBC and Odeon cinemas.