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