Ladies and gentlemen... ...step right up and prepare yourselves for a fantastic journey into the bizarre world of identical twins... * The Jackson Twins UK based visual artists “Our work pays particular focus to ‘the twin’, what it is to be an identical being – to in essence, share an identity with your double. We explore the worldwide fascination with twins: in terms of the pop culture fixation of the ‘evil-twin’, the depths of the twin in folklore (the doppelganger) and the themes explored through psychology and psychoanalysis. We aim to take advantage of the visual power – the awkwardness, the lack of fit and belonging, the freakish feel – of the twin motif. Within the performance of our self-portraits we illustrate the relevance of such an evocative motif in the context of a culture still fixated on the individual." The Jackson Twins, 2010 The Jackson Twins live and work in the West Midlands, both graduating in Fine Art at Birmingham City University in 2003.  The twins were awarded the Rhubarb-Rhubarb/Arts Council England Bursary in 2009 and have just returned from showing The Cataclysmic Accounts from The Binary Institute in Sydney, Australia. Works by the Jackson Twins are also in private collections in the UK, New Zealand and USA. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Exhibitions The Uses of Enchantment 27 March - 12 June 2010 Rhubarb East, Birmingham. UK Mind Games: Photography, Play and Identity 29 January - 6 March 2010 Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney. Australia Hungry 27 June - 29 August 2009 Wolverhampton Art Gallery, West Midlands. UK RCA Secret December 2007 Royal College of Art, London. UK Through The Looking Glass 2 June - 11 July 2008 The Exhibition Gallery, Hinckley, Leicestershire. UK 15 - 27 February 2006 Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Warwickshire. UK 1 December 2005 - 31 January 2006 The Pumphouse Gallery, Harrogate, Yorkshire. UK 25th July - 4th August 2005 Birmingham Botanical Gardens & Glasshouses, Birmingham. UK Focus March - April 2005 City Art Gallery, The Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham. UK The Turner Prize Show April 2004 Space Banana, Digbeth, Birmingham. UK Smooth BA (HONS) Degree Show 12th -15th June 2003 Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham. UK *(anonymous, The Discovery Channel, 2001)