PRESS | TALKS

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

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.”

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 – Artist talk with Alexandra Davenport for The Photographers’ Gallery

2021 – Interview with Julia Carver, curator for Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

2022 – Interview with Mimi Gray – Darklight Art

https://www.darklight-art.com/blogs/news/jessa-fairbrother

2023 – Panel Discussion with Dr. Marianne Mulvey and Professor Mandy Rose at Watershed, Bristol after screening of All the Beauty and the Bloodshed.

Panel talk, Watershed