1944 -

Sculptor. Born Scotland, he was educated at Farnham School of Art and worked for Henry Moore. He was awarded the Sir Otto Beit Medal in 1991, 1992 and 1993. In 1991 Jackson won the Mozart Bicentenary Sculpture Competition to provide a statue of the composer in Belgravia, London. Other public commissions include The Yomper (Eastney, Hampshire, 1992), Jersey Liberation Sculpture (St Helier, 1995), Wallenberg Monument (London, 1997; Buenos Aires, 1998), The Gurkha Monument (Horse Guards’ Avenue, London, 1997), Minerva (Chichester, 1997), Constantine the Great (York Minster, 1998), St Richard (Chichester Cathedral, 2000), Sir Matt Busby (Manchester United Football Stadium, 2000), The In-Pensioner (Royal Hospital, Chelsea, 2000) and George VI (Britannia Royal Naval College, 2002), Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (The Mall, London, 2009) . An equestrian statue of Elizabeth II, commissioned by the Crown Estate for the Golden Jubilee, will stand in Windsor Great Park. Overseas, Jackson has executed a statue of the Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1998) , for the lakeside in Geneva, and Horses (1999) for Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. A series of fanciful sculptures evoking the Venetian carnival, executed between 1990 and 2002, date from a commission for Venice in the 1980s. Jackson is Fellow and Vice-President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors. He lives and works in Midhurst, West Sussex.