Kurt Jackson: Clay Country exhibition

Saturday 18 September – 20 November 2021

Kurt Jackson’s artistic practice ranges from his trademark visceral plein-air sessions to studio work and embraces an extensive range of materials and techniques including mixed media, large canvases, print-making and sculpture.

At the start of his artistic career he travelled extensively, painting wherever he went before putting down roots in Cornwall in 1984. Jackson’s focus on the complexity, diversity and fragility of the natural world has led to artist-in-residencies on the Greenpeace ship Esperanza, the Eden Project and for nearly 20 years Glastonbury Festival which has become a staple of his annual working calendar.

Jackson regularly contributes to radio and television and presents environmentally informed art documentaries for the BBC – he was the subject for an award-winning BBC documentary, ‘A Picture of Britain’.

Related events

Tues 12 October, 1.30pm – Bite size talk: China Clay, Cornwall with Kurt Jackson

Families! Download our Pirates of the Museum family trail

Now listen up closely me beauties… this be a Piratey Quest that needs cunning and courage! To find what ye seek follow the riddles of old and then the answers will unfold. So make your way down to the museum seadogs and set sail for a barrel of fun!

After the trail, fill in your own WANTED poster! Download the WANTED poster here.

Free to download and print at home, or £1 to pick up in the gallery.

Image credit:
Kurt Jackson, Pit and benches, 2018. Mixed media with kaolin and sand on linen, 201 x 261cm. Copyright the artist.