FACULTY

Dejan Atanackovic 
Laura De Tanti
Silvia Ghelardini
Sue Kennington
Franca Marini
Melissa Morris
Lisa Nonken
Jeff Shapiro
Walter Safatti
Jacqueline Tune
Michael Eldridge
Valeria Indice
Filippo Manganelli
Silvia Giorgi

Jacqueline Tune  HND/PHND, Professor of Photography

Jacqueline has a metalwork and photographic studio in Tuscany, where she makes multi material objects and photographic images. She co runs a gallery in San Chimento where she exhibits her work and sells and exhibits work in Italy and abroad. She works with the Siena School, teaching photography, and collaborated as Art Director for ‘Verso’ Magazine. 

For more Information on Jackie's work, click here.

Artist's Statement on 'Family Life' series:

I have been using the 'triptych' form of image making for a few years, finding the working together of single images encourages the  possibility of a narrative, providing greater communication between different aspects of subjects. Previously I found one image or single images in a series didn't communicate the vast dynamics that happen in a space over a certain amount of time, however short. I found myself having to get further away from the subject in order to gain more aspects. Assembling different images  together, I am able to work close and at a distance collecting more information. Each  of the three single images is taken from the same set of photographs and as  I take pictures I try  not to think too much about the 'three images'. The 'post' editing is extremely important , sometimes immediately obvious, sometimes very lengthy. By playing with the images together , these 'moments', 'chapters' or 'scenes,' I try to create a visual poem.

I am fascinated by 'us' , by what we are , how we are, and what we are doing in this world. I try to tell the stories of the people I photograph, my life and the places I visit.
I'm also often looking for myself in the people I photograph, in the connection I might have with them: a lover, a relative , a person who may look like me in some way. It's a bit like taking over another person's body, and expressing myself through it. 

FAMILY LIFE  is series of triptychs created over the years during my return trips to my parents' and my siblings'  homes in Southern England. My family and home are perhaps my most fascinating subjects: the ties and knots that keep us together and divide us. I live away from them, perhaps this is why I photograph them obsessively whenever I can, spending most of the time trying to grasp at the 'family life' going on, not wanting to risk losing any aspect of their daily lives which I am normally not able to take part in. This honest photographic documentation is a testimony of my love, fascination and admiration for my family, they allow me to explore the 'who I am' and 'where do I come from?' . However , frequently and sadly it disallows my full participation and I am rarely in the pictures, sometimes just a shadow.
RELATED WORK:

 2002 - Present:  
Instructor of Photography for Under Graduate, Graduate and Post Graduate levels;  Siena School of Liberal Arts and Siena Art Institute

1998 - Present: 
Freelance Photographic work for various clients; Travel and Holiday Property companies, Premio Celeste, Siena School for Liberal Arts, SART, Verso Magazine. Runs photographic and metalwork courses at her Studio in Tuscany. Assistant Photographer and Stylist for Photographer Mads Mogensen.

1998 - 2002:
Instructor of Studio Art and Photography for Undergraduate and Graduate levels; Study in Siena.

1989-1990
Visiting lecturer; Norwich College of Art and Design


EDUCATION:

1984 -1985; Art Foundation Art  Diploma, Maidstone College of Art UK

1985 -1988; HND and PHND in Photography and Media Studies, Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design.


EXHIBITIONS:

2012:  2 person show,photographs/installation; EARTH/TERRA, Acc. Fisiocritici, Siena                        

2011:  Group Show, DRAWN TOGETHER, Siena Art Institute, Siena

2011:  CELESTE PRIZE finalist, INVISIBLE DOG, New York

2011:  Personal show; ECHOES, Benvivre , Siena.

2011:  Group Show; Photographs; WATERWAYS, Casolae Art Festival, Casole D’Elsa

2010:  Group show; Photographs; FOOD, San Chimento Gallery, Siena

2010:  Group Show: PHOTOGRAPHS IN THE MILL, Casole D’Elsa.

2010:  Group Show; ALBERI-TREES,  ARTEACOLORI, Montaione , Firenze. Italy

2010:  Group Show; TUSCAN ICONS. Photographs. Galleria ISTANTANEA, Siena. Italy.                              

2009:  Photographs and Paintings ALBERO CELESTE Gallery, San Gimignano, Italy.

2009:  INDEPENDTENDENCY: Celeste Network, Venice Biennale. Italy.

2009:  BRITMANIA, Exhibition of photographs, Various British artists, Florence.

2008:  Group show: Video Installation, Photography, Siena School, Pendola . Siena.

2008   CELESTE PRIZE 2008 : Finalists’ Exhibition Milan

2008:  Group Show, COLLE GIOCO ; Painting, Photography and Installation. Colle Val D’Elsa

2007:  Work selected for COLORS Magazine exhibition, FABRICA-LES YEUX OVERTS, CENTRE POMPIDOU Paris

2007:  Show of Photographic and metal work. ‘’Coiné“  Colle Val D’Elsa, Italy

2006:  Group show of women Artists and Artisans; WOMEN IN ART IN THE VAL D’ELSA, Abbadia Isola, Siena. Italy. 

2005:  Group show of Artists and Artisans METAMETALLO, GAP'S SPAZIO, Asti, Italy.

2004:  Group show of Artists, 'DOMESTIC ART' at the BIALE CERRUTI, Art Gallery, Siena, Italy.  

1998:  Personal Show; Photographs and Objects, IL SAPIA, Colle Val d'Elsa. Italy

1998:  Group show; photographs, sculptures, etchings and paintings, LA PERGOLA, Radicondali, Siena. 

 1992:  Group show; 'THE RUBBISH DUMP', sculpture, painting and photographs, Saint Cristoforo Cloisters, Siena, Italy. 

1990:  Group Show; ENGLISH AND AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY, Miami, USA

1989:  Personal Show of photographs, TRINITY ARTS CENTRE, Tunbridge Wells, UK.

1989:  PersonalShow of photographs, Bournemouth and Poole College of Art and Design, UK 

1988:  Two Person show photo and painting, OMPHALOS GALLERY, London. UK

1988:  Group Show of photography .THE PHOTOGRAPHER'S GALLERY, London,UK

 
PUBLICATIONS:  

 2010: Danish LOCALLIVING COOKBOOK.

 2009: PREMIO CELESTE Cataogue INDEPENDTENDENCY, VeniceBiennale

 2008: A SENSE OF PLACE, Martina and Mads Mogensen, DOM publications

 2008: ELLE DECOR, editorial article,

 2007; PREMIO CELESTE  2007 Finalist Exhibtion catalogue.

 2005: VILLE E GIARDINI in Italian interiors magazine,.

 2002:  COSTUME E SOCIETA’Interview broadcast on Italian Television RAI 2,  

 2002: GLAMOUR magazine, NEW ARTISANS: four women working in Italy

 2001: SKONA HEM Danish interiors magazine

 2001: HANDMADE IN ITALY, a book about artisans in Italy by John Ferro Sims

 2001: COUNTRY German interiors magazine

 1998: ELLE DÉCOR Italy.

 1988: HOTSHOE photographic magazine.

 1988: IMAGE photographic magazine.

 1988: CREATIVE REVIEW magazine.

 1988: CREATIVE CAMERA magazine.

 
AWARDS AND HONORS: 

 Benson and Hedges Award for Photography 1988

 Finalist for Premio Celeste prize,Milano, 2008

 Finalist for Celeste Prize, New York, 2011
Project Description by Jacqueline Tune for "A GAME CALLED 'HAPPY FAMILIES'"  from a project for COLORS magazine, 2006 

When we were little, we used to play the card game 'Happy Families', with Mr  and Mrs Singh from India and their children, the Fernandez family from Mexico and others from different nations across the world. I guess at the time I didn't think about the future connotations the game might have , or the false impressions it might be imposing upon us  innocent, young children, coming from a white, middle class, english family. The fact was I played , like the rest of us, trying to get the set of four family members back together as one. The Indians, the Russians , the Mexicans etc. Then they would be 'happy', and one of us would win. 

The extent to our 'unhappiness' in those days would have been fighting over who got the biggest slice, an argument about leaving stuff lying around the house, or our animals dying and being buried at the end of the garden. So when recently our family started coming loose at the seams, losing its form because the stuffing was coming away, I felt slightly cheated. This wasn't how the game was supposed to go. We might have all been distances apart , but we had, all of us, in our growing numbers, always been bound together constantly by phonecalls, e-mails, birthday presents and holidays. Suddenly  it was different.  One of the cards  got lost, mislaid, and didn't have an address anymore. We didn't  know which dolls she played with anymore, which songs she liked to sing, or what her hair was like. 
 
It was  sad and it was  painful, it didn't make sense and it was worrying. The not knowing  'if ever again' s and the 'trying to remember' s ; the warmth, the smells, the laughter, the tears and the love. 
   
Some of it is here in pictures. This family album. My pictures of my family doing what they try to do best : getting on with being a Happy Family. Sometimes I find myself on the outside, trying to capture what it is that makes my family so unique. There I am at the window, on the other side of the room, sometimes ordering , usually not helping!  This incessant need on one side to feel I am part of it, and  yet  to watch and capture, fascinated, solely as an observer, on the other.  Then someone would throw me a tea towel, pass me a cup of tea, and I would be restored to my family role again.

We talk, we listen, we try to work things out and make things better. Families aren't easy 'things', I've come to realize , not only through listening to other people, , but through my own experience. The not agreeing about issues, not accepting  others' behaviour or even understanding it, the decisions and the changes of decision. Even in the way we might wash-up. 'Family' is hard work but it is a constant and wonderful reminder  of what we are, and that we are. In loving, and caring, and hurting, and losing ,and getting together, and making an effort, and remembering,  and holding together....