Adrian is a contemporary painter who is based in Auckland, New Zealand. He was born in Te Kopuru in 1971 and he graduated in 1997 with a MFA from Auckland University’s Elam School of Fine Arts.

His paintings investigate the process of art making from a traditional through to a technological perspective. He has exhibited in shows throughout
New Zealand with works held in both public and
private collections.

Some of Jackman’s paintings interpret ideas associated with the computer generated landscape and the graphic style manga animae world. Other compositions take us into grided space galaxies juxtaposed with elements from the computer desktop and then in more recent works we are looking not up and out with a perspective, but far down onto the earths surface as if we are the eye of a satelite camera. A common impulse that is prevalent throughout his work is the crucial need to record this media and its technological history; whether via the use of a common advertising slogan used during the 1990’s or with an abandoned industrial landscape, his paintings present us with a particular theme that regards how far and fast technology is moving.