Emily Jackson on the Northern line

Emily Jackson - The Woman Asleep on the Tube No.5

Friend of Sweetworld, Emily Jackson is taking part with ArtBelow, a project that exhibits a huge variety of art in the unorthdox setting of major tube stations such as Bond street. Not only do the iconic and dilapidated stations provide and excellent backdrop, it gets art out of galleries and into the public; making it accessible for all rather than the select, often small following of the independent galleries artist normally tour when starting out. I think anything that can raise a smile or an eyebrow of intrigue on a familiar routine, is a brilliant idea. And as Ben Moore is quoted on their website, Art should be everywhere, not behind closed doors.

Jackson focuses on voyeuristic themes in contempory environments. Those strangers we are facinated by, perhaps without knowing why. Or catching people in what are normally private moments, e.g. catching some drunken zzzz’ds on the tube home only to wake up and find your in Morden or something.

Emily’s painting, The Woman Asleep on the Tube No.5, Can be seen on the Southbound Platform of London Bridge for 2weeks from the 15th of March 2010. Take a look at some of her other work here. I particularly love ‘Judith.’