Jackie Nickerson: Salvage

About Jackie Nickerson

Jackie Nickerson began photographing Zimbabwean farm workers in 1996 as a way to change the perception that those who work in African agriculture are disempowered unmodern people. The resulting series Farm focused on the unique and beautiful clothing the workers made for themselves and by doing so highlighted the workers identity individuality and ultimately their modernism. This was published by Jonathan Cape in September 2002. (German edition Leben Mit Der Erde published by Frederking and Thaler 2002; French edition Une Autre Afrique published by Flammarion 2002. Nickerson is an American born British artist who lives and works between London and rural Ireland. Her work is held in many important private and public collections and has been exhibited in venues which include the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art Salzburg; Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels; National Portrait Gallery London; Mudam Musee dArt Moderne Luxembourg; Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art Kansas; Sunderland Museum UK; Harn Museum Gainesville; Vatican Museums Rome; Benaki Museum Athens Irish Museum of Modern Art Dublin. She is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery in New York.