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Acts of Creation – Review by Millie Walton . Published: Burlington Contemporary
”… It is testament to Judah’s sensitive handling of the subject-matter that the final section of the show – ‘The Temple’, a homage to the mother figure – acknowledges that absence, like invisibility, does not equate to lack. Jessa Fairbrother’s Role Play (Woman with Cushion) …. is a series of monochromatic photographs in which the artist ‘performs’ the stages of pregnancy with a cushion underneath her dress….…..
Opening of Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood – MAC, Birmingham, June 2024. Hayward Touring Show 2024-25
https://macbirmingham.co.uk/exhibitions/acts-of-creation-on-art-and-motherhood
Acts of Creation – By Hettie Judah. Published: Thames and Hudson.
”…the artist performs cycles of attempted conception as though she were the waxing and waning moon…….
Opening of Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood – Arnolfini, Bristol, March 2024. Hayward Touring Show 2024-25
Interviewed by Emma Shapiro for The Art Newspaper about shadow-banning: “This is fundamentally about who has access to tools shaping the culture”
2023 – Panel Discussion with Dr. Marianne Mulvey and Professor Mandy Rose at Watershed, Bristol after screening of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.
2021 – Shyama Laxman – Photomonitor:
Making things to make people feel things.
“Jessa Fairbrother’s work may be about her, but she’s not just about herself.”
2021 – Hettie Judah – Elephant: Why is it so hard to talk about fertility?
“….Fairbrother maintains a conversation with her mother by lavishing acts of care on the images: embroidering them; enrobing them in dried petals from her funerary bouquets and leaves from her garden; re-staging them with her own body; binding them together.”
Jennifer Mundy – Tate 2020 – Severance: Jessa Fairbrother’s Conversations with My Mother
“Conversations with My Mother is a memorial to love, to grief and, in its cared-for material qualities, to life.” – Jennifer Mundy, Tate Papers 2020