Open 10:30–5:00, Tuesday – Saturday
Saturday 28th March, 2026 at 3.20pm
Join us for the opening of Jackie Nickerson’s exhibition STATESIDE – a Highlanes Gallery national tour where Jackie will be in conversation with writer and journalist Sinéad Gleeson.
The exhibition is open to view from 3pm
This talk will be (ISL )Irish Sign Language Interpreted.
Tea, Coffee & Prosecco will be served.
STATESIDE is Jackie Nickerson’s sweeping, fragmented visual diary of a decade living and working across the USA. From streetscapes in Chicago to military installations on Hawaii, from Utah landscapes to New York skyscrapers, Nickerson used whatever camera she had at hand—medium format, 35mm, point and shoot, iPhone—to fix raw glimpses of America at this peculiar, precarious time.
Her focus was less on specific locations than on repeated motifs, as if these photos could have been taken virtually anywhere in America. Chainlink fences, basketball courts, suburban houses and classrooms, gas stations and even battleships become markers of sameness, and of the functionalism that fuel’s America’s economy.
Unlike other work that explores contemporary America, both as place and idea, Jackie Nickerson avoids ‘definitive’ images as individual works. Instead she made large prints of her work, hung them in an overlapping sequence on her studio wall, and then re- photographed them.
The result is a compelling, ongoing narrative of the complex, troubled America of today.
STATESIDE continues until Saturay 9th May, after which we present it on national tour during July at Galway International Arts Festival and then in February 2027 at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny.
Jackie Nickerson: STATESIDE is funded by an Arts Council of Ireland touring award.
ABOUT:
Jackie Nickerson is an American-born British artist. She divides her time between rural north County Louth and London.
Jackie Nickerson is a conceptual documentary photographer. Her work is based on years- long research and is often portraiture; she explores the identities of her subjects and the effects of working in specific environments, such as religious communities in Ireland and farms in South Africa.
Her work has been exhibited in Ireland and internationally at institutions including the National Portrait Gallery, London, the Vatican Museums, Rome, and the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. She is represented by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Her work is represented in the Drogheda Municipal Art Collection, Highlanes Gallery.
Sinéad Gleeson’s essay collection Constellations: Reflections from Life won Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Literary Award for Emerging Writer. It shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Michel Déon Prize and has been translated into several languages. She is the editor of four anthologies including The Art of the Glimpseand the award-winning The Long Gaze Back: An Anthology of Irish Women Writers, and The Glass Shore: Short Stories. Sinéad has engaged in multi-disciplinary collaborations with artists and musicians, including commissions from The Wellcome Collection, the RHA Gallery, BBC, Rua Red Gallery and Frieze. She is co-editor with Kim Gordon of This Woman’s Work: Essays on Music. Her debut novel, Hagstone, was published in 2024 by 4th Estate. It was longlisted for 2025 Dublin Literary Award and shortlisted for the 2025 John McGahern Book Prize.
