Jessa Fairbrother

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  • Writing and processing

    This summer has been a time of bedding down, turning in and writing my heart out. I was fortunate to be awarded DYCP funding from ACE earlier in the year, which afforded me time to concentrate on developing this aspect of my practice. As this has naturally started to coalesce around writing about my maternal…

    August 29, 2025
  • Just a profile

    I recently got asked for a link to a profile photograph.

    October 31, 2024
  • Octavia Feels Gets an Outing Part II (she’s free!)

    It was a thrill to see Octavia Feels get her first official airing at the RWA in Bristol recently. She has a fantastic spot in the middle of the monochrome room, which is part of the 171st Open Exhibition. I am showing for the first time as an Academician and it feels mighty appropriate that…

    September 30, 2024
  • Octavia Feels gets an outing

    Octavia Feels the Third Position of the Salute is a hand-perforated central piece to my Fencing Manual for Women – Instructions from the 18th Century. I am thrilled to be showing this work for the first time in public. And it’s in the Royal West of England Academy (RWA), Bristol – so, the first time…

    August 27, 2024
  • Olympic Possibilities

    Olympic Possibilities

    This summer is a great time for me to share my Fencing Manual for Women for those new to the party, tagging on to the fact that sport, including fencing, is on 247 for the next couple of weeks. Early adopters already know about my time-travelling ruse but as Acts of Creation has brought me…

    July 30, 2024
  • The book – Acts of Creation

    It’s now out – Hettie Judah’s book published by Thames and Hudson. It has the same name as the show but it is a different project, with a long historical look at the topic right up to the present day. What is truly amazing to me is that my work opens the chapter ‘Creation’. After…

    July 16, 2024
  • In situ

    Hugely pleased to have some beautiful installation images of my work Role Play (Woman with Cushion) from Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood – open now at Arnolfini, Bristol, until May 26th 2024. The first venue as part of the Hayward Touring Exhibition throughout 2024-25. Installation view of Acts of Creation: On Art and…

    April 22, 2024
  • ‘The Almost Mother’

    It’s been extraordinary being in Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood. There’s the obvious thing of being in a show which everyone goes to see. It’s incredible to see work that you made living it’s own life. And there’s the place where it lands – that feeling – inside the body of the artist…

    April 16, 2024
  • Surrendering

    I returned from a month in southern Italy recently, where I spent time at Domus Artist Residency. This was transformative for my practice. The time out to think deeply, and concentrate without the pressure of having to stop and put down my idea, just because of the time of day, was incredible. There was no…

    January 4, 2024
  • Help has arrived

    Getting things done as an artist means: All of this his means point number 1, the most important bit, gets less and less time devoted to it as you go on. Getting help has been incredible and means more time to make art. At the moment Maddy is helping me plan how I should best…

    September 25, 2023
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