Martine Jackson is a ceramic artist based in Cape Town whose pieces are defined by the versatility of their surfaces and their organic, billowing forms. Her works are pieces of memoir, drawing from her encounters with the natural world, emerging from a bedrock of lived experience. She approaches each piece primarily as a sculptural medium whose dynamic tension comes from the interplay of three-dimensional form and two-dimensional surface.
Jackson graduated from the Michaelis School of Fine Art in 2000 and previously taught at the Barbara Jackson School of Ceramics, founded in 1978 by her mother — one of South Africa’s pioneering (yet undocumented) female ceramic artists. In recent years, Martine Jackson has further uncovered a deep, personal expression in her work. Her pieces are gentle iterations of ancient mountainscapes; they speak to the traces on the earth’s surface, left behind by the passage of time, they speak to the human experience, for to live is to be marked.
