Primarily an oil painter interested in memory and the cinematic, Antonia Jackson finds inspiration in images drawn from 1960s New Wave French and Italian art films (a form of collective archive), super 8 reels from personal archives, and found or personal photographs. Such mediated images provide a space for the recovery of memories through the medium of painting. Jackson’s present body of work stems from recently rediscovered Super 8 reels that her father recorded in the 70s and 80s as well as personal photographs taken in a coffee and cocoa plantation in St Lucia, where the past haunts the present. Carefully selected images are appropriated and redefined during the painting process, which allows a distant past to be brought back into the present and new narratives to emerge. While the final paintings hover between abstraction and figuration, the vibrant and expressive use of colour is essential to create a dreamlike surreal atmosphere in the paintings inviting the viewer into a strange poetic world, half remembered, half imagined.