Education: MA Photographic Studies, University of Westminster, (2010); Drama Studio London (1997); BA English, Durham University (1996).
Represented by:
The Photographers’ Gallery, London and Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna.
Public Collections: Conversations with my mother artist book: ‘Rare books and manuscripts’ Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, US; Tate Library, Tate Britain, London; ‘National Art Library,’ Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; ‘Hirsch Library’, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, US. Permanent collection of NHS, UK.
Wellcome Collection ‘Reframing Sex Work’, [online illustrations for Digital Stories, May 2020] and ‘The Hidden Side of Violence’ [online illustrations for Digital Stories, Autumn 2022]. Selected prints from Conversations with my mother – Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol, UK
Performance talks
- 2017 – The Freud Museum conference on ‘Mourning and Melancholia’: Conversations with my mother as a monologue
- 2016 – Redeye, Hothouse, Conversations with my mother
Awards
- 2021 – Arts Council England: DYCP Award
- 2020 – Arts Council England: Emergency Response Grant
- 2020 – a-n The Artist Information Company: Artist Bursary (for Fencing Manual for Women project)
- 2019 – QEST scholarship for Certificate Historical Hand Embroidery, Royal School of Needlework
- 2017 – GRAIN Portfolio Award, FORMAT Festival (for Fencing Manual for Women project) – winner
- 2016 – Short-listed for 2017 cycle of Jerwood Open Makers Award
- 2016 – a-n The Artist Information Company: Travel Bursary
- 2014 – PX3 ‘Blue’ – honourable mention
- 2013 – Genesis Imaging Award, Format Festival – winner
- 2008 – Magenta Flash Forward – honourable mention
- 2004 – Arts Council of Wales grant: An Important View
Solo exhibitions
- 2021 – Bristol Museum and Art Gallery “Beyond the frame” – intervention in main collection as part of Bristol Photography Festival: A sense of place
- 2019 – Print Sales Gallery, The Photographers’ Gallery, London: Constellations and Coordinates
- 2017 – Birmingham City University (School of Jewellery), Armour Studies (regarding skin)
- 2005 – Oriel Queens Hall Gallery, Pembrokeshire, An Important View
Selected group exhibitions
- Coming soon – Academician candidate show, RWA, Bristol
- 2023 – Re-Naissance [online], UNIT, London
- 2023 – Serchia M(Other), Bristol
- 2023 – RWA Photography Open, Bristol
- 2021 – Print Sales / The Photographers’ Gallery [online] The Trapeze Artist, London
- 2019 – Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool: 209 Women; 2018 – Portcullis House, London: 209 Women
- 2018 – Mall Galleries, London: Invited Artist, ING Discerning Eye;
- 2018 Anzenberger Gallery,Vienna: Handmade IV
- 2018 – Print Sales Gallery,The Photographers’ Gallery, London: Work in Process
- 2017. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven: A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions
- 2017 – The Barge House, London: FIX Photo Festival
- 2017 – RWA, Bristol: 164th Open;
- 2016 – Salisbury Arts Centre, Salisbury, Threads
- 2016 – Anzenberger Gallery,Vienna, Handmade III
- 2016 – Waterperry Gardens, Oxford, Art in Action;
- 2016 – Gazebook, Sicily
- 2016 – Photobook Bristol First Books / Dummy exhibition;
- 2014 – The Mall Galleries, London: ING Discerning Eye;
- 2013 – RWA, Bristol: 161st Open
Residencies
Future – 2023: DOMUS, Galatina, Italy
Art Fairs | Other
- 2022 – Magnum Square Print Sale
- 2022 – Collect, London (QEST)
- 2021 – Photo London (The Photographers’ Gallery)
- 2019 – Photo London (The Photographers’ Gallery)
- 2018 – UNSEEN Amsterdam (The Photographers’ Gallery) and Photo London (The Photographers’ Gallery)
- 2018 – Photo London (The Photographers’ Gallery)
- 2017 – Parallel Vienna (Anzenberger Gallery)
Press | publications
- 2022 – Darklight Art – Radical Softness -Interview with Mimi Gray
- 2021 – Photomonitor – Making things to make people feel things – Interview with Shyama Laxman
- 2021 – British Journal of Photography – Beyond the Frame review, Isaac Huxtable
- 2021 – Photomomitor – Beyond the Frame review, Shyama Laxman
- 2021 – Elephant: Why Is It So Hard to Talk About Fertility? Hettie Judah
- 2020 – Tate Papers, Severance: Jessa Fairbrother’s Conversations with My Mother, Jennifer Mundy
- 2020 – Mam: Maternal Art Magazine: Stay at Home
- 2018 – Photomonitor: Conversations with my mother + essay: Working with emotions in photography
- 2017 – The Eye of Photography: ‘FORMAT Festival: discoveries from the portfolio reviews’, Holly Roussell
- 2016 – Photoworks, ‘Showcase’: Conversations with my mother
- 2016 – LensCulture, ‘Spotlight’: Conversations with my mother
- 2016 – Spot magazine, Fall issue, Caroline Docwra: Conversations with my mother
- 2012 – Interwoven, Pippa Oldfield: I Did
- 2012 -‘Communication between FineArtists,Academics and Gender:A new practice?’Bulletine, Norway2010 – Eyemazing Magazine, winter issue: Subtitled
Symposiums
- 2021 – Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Whose Gaze?
- 2018 – UWE, Bristol, The body as canvas
- 2017 – Birkbeck, University of London, The Pregnant Archive
- 2016 – Birmingham City University “Talking Practice”
- 2016 – Salon, 10x10Photobooks, New York: Conversations with my mother
- 2016 – Photobook Bristol: In conversation with Mariela Sancari
- 2016 – Flockomania, Birmingham City University: Beyond Jewellery: Performing the Body
- 2012 – Cornerhouse: Lost is found (from 4 min 40) http://homemcr.org/media/lost-is-found-hear-from-the-artists/
Visiting Lecturer Artist Talks | Workshops | Mentoring
- Rising Arts Agency, Bristol: mentoring emerging photographer.
- Talks/workshops at – Bath Spa University; Manchester Metropolitan University; Camarthen College of Art; Sheffield Hallam University; Birmingham City University; University West of England, Bristol; Rising Arts Agency, Bristol; Falmouth University; Gloucester University.
Selected Workshops |Talks |
- 2023 – Watershed, Bristol – Panel Discussion after All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, with Dr. Marianne Mulvey and Professor Mandy Rose
- 2021 – The Photographers’ Gallery – Head, Heart, Hands – in conversation with artist Alexandra Davenport.
- 2021 – Bristol Museum and Art Gallery
- 2020 – IG Live for Work Show Grow
- 2020 – Redeye, Manchester – guest speaker – Snapshot.
- 2020 – London Art Fair for The Photographers’ Gallery panel discussion -‘Women Photographers’.
- 2019 – The Photographers’ Gallery, London – Photography and Health (guest speaker at The Social)
- 2018 – The Photographers’ Gallery, London – Sensing the image (guest speaker) 2016 – The Photographers’ Gallery, London – Tactile Photos
- 2016 – Miniclick @ The Photographers’ Gallery, London






