Monkeys
Monkeys was the first painting Jackson produced that utilises the artist’s technique of abstracting figures through a unique process of assembling multiple found sources and distorting their original form. This hybridised process combines culling photographs from internet search queries that reference Jackson’s own connections to Caribbean culture, and digitally manipulating them with editing software, thereby creating a compositional template for the images’ translation into the artist’s finished work.
About the Artist
John Reno Jackson
b. 1995
John Reno Jackson is a Caymanian-American painter. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (UCL) and received his MA in painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2025), where he was the recipient of the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship. His work explores the possibilities of painterly expression through varying abstract investigations of his chosen medium. He has exhibited at Tern Gallery in the Bahamas and held a solo exhibition, A Heron Amidst the Storm, at the National Gallery of the Cayman Islands in 2022. His work is in the permanent collection of NGCI, where it has also featured in various exhibitions such as Island of Women: Life at Home During Our Maritime Years (2020), Reimagined Futures – 2nd Cayman Islands Biennial (2021) and The People’s Collection – A 25-Year Cultural Legacy (2022).
