About me:

I studied Psychology, Logic and Metaphysics at the University of St Andrews before going on to work as a writer and journalist on music and arts whose involvements included The Independent, Sunday Telegraph, Gramophone, BBC Music, books, PR projects and several TV films.

But I'd also been trained as a visual artist and photographer at Sunderland Polytechnic. In recent years I've been won over by the magical potential of digital imaging and its capacity to transform the commonplace, to blur the distinctions between illusion and reality. From the late Nineties I experienced a trough of depression, so-labelled; for I might rather term it 'disenchantment'. (Others have graciously called it 'rebirth'.) Since then I've found a therapeutic and cathartic outlet through my work as a poet and multimedia artist whose passions included the making of short, innovative or experimental films (funds, inevitably, permitting). I can be contacted directly on stephen_jacks58@hotmail.com. ___________________________________________________________ Closer to home, you'll find my occasional BLOGS on: ___________________________________________________________ http://blog.myspace.com/stephen_jacks58 ___________________________________________________________ But to see far more about me: www.londondigitalart.co.uk
is the summation of my life so far, and will be the avenue for new work as it comes. First port of call. ___________________________________________________________ http://www.photoboxgallery.com/8799
for my artwork - and for prints to buy ___________________________________________________________ http://londondigitalart.spaces.live.com
for my poetry and imagery working together ___________________________________________________________ I'm eager to respond to the challenge of new commissions - as well as discussing ideas for fresh projects or collaborations with other, like-minded people. Of interest to me, finally, is the potential of the Internet to create an opportunity to make pictures and words work together in new ways – interacting with each other as well as with what’s surely too passively called, “the audience”. I feel a bit concerned about tightening restrictions on what the orthodox media and publishing worlds seem able now to conceive. One possibility for the future, maybe, lies elsewhere?

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I am a digital artist, performing poet and published writer. Contact me directly on stephen_jacks 58@hotmail.com