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jessicawetherly@gmail.com

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I am an artist who uses sculpture to explore narrative. My practice deals with issues around ecology and landscape. My approach excavates the history of colonial tactics to restrict movement of people and plants. My work is concerned with contradictory behaviour around the preservation and destruction of habitats and culture and how nomadic ways of being - for instance, the right to roam - break down class structures and capitalist infrastructure.

Education

2009-13   Diploma in Fine Art, The Art Academy.

2017-19.   Sculpture, Royal College of Art

Residencies

2022.   Forest for the Trees, ACC Galerie Weimar, October-February, Germany.

2020.   Bilbao Arte  Residency, July-December. Basque Country, Spain.

2020.   Korai Project Space, March-May. Nicosia, Cyprus.

2020.   Gilbert Bayes Award 2020, The Royal Society of Sculptors, London.

2020.   Wild Biyoo, The Tribe Goa, India.

2019.    Summer School Residency, Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbarn, Lake District

2019.    Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton Square, London, UK, March.

2018.    UTxRCA Fellowship, Texas, USA.

2018.    Summer School Residency, Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbarn, Lake District

2016.    Residency,  Sail Britain, UK.

2015.     /W^NDER/ Research Residency, Central America.

2015.    Graduate Residency, Westbury Arts Centre, Milton Keynes.

Awards & Commissions

2022.   Arts Council Project Grant 

2021.    DYCP Arts Council Fund

2021.    Watford Covid Memorial Public Sculpture

2021.    Set Studio Award

2020.   Time and Space Award, A-N

2020.   Gilbert Bayes Award 2020, The Royal Society of Sculptors, London.

2020.   BilbaoArte Beca for International Artists, Bilbao Spain.

2019.    Broomhill National Sculpture Prize, Broomhill Sculpture Park, UK

2017.    Stanley Picker Scholarship

2016.    The Tuckshop Tanner, Archbishop's Park Commission, Lambeth Council

2015.    NADFAS Scholarship, Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust.

2015.    Ashurst Emerging Artist Shortlist, London. 

2014.    Rome Art Programme Scholarship, Rome, Italy

Projects

2021.     Contains Art, Ecology and Sustainability KS1-3, East Quay, Somerset.

2020.    Gardens of Earthly Delight @gardensofearthlydelight 

2020.    Wild Biyoo Artist residency focus on climate justice, Goa India

Press / Talks / Video

2023.  When The Moon Howls Interview with Ulrike Theusner and Curator Frank Motz ACC Galerie Weimar

2021.   El cuervo blanco o la paloma? by Inaki Estaban in El Correo, Bilbao

2021.   Sustainable Art Practises with Villa Villa curated by Alice Bonnata.

2021.   RSS Show, Casc Gallery, Chichester.

2021.   GBA 2020, The Royal Sculpture Society

2020.  Ancient Deities Review Sphere

2020.  National Sculpture Prize, I-M Magazine

2020.  Artist Talk, Ambassador for University of Portsmouth, Aspex Gallery.

2020.  Ghosts in the Fridge, Interview with BilbaoArte  

2020.  ON-OFF Interview with Jeanette Gunnerson 

2020.  Ancient Dieties, Review Sphere

2020.  Artist of the Month, Axisweb

2020.  Song of the Siren, Parathyro Politis

2019.   Moonlight is Sculpture, Publication

2019.   Artist Talk, University of Canterbury

2017.   QEST magazine 

Exhibitions

SOLO

2023.   When The Moon Howls, ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany

2022.   The Wild Twin, Muse Gallery, London. UK

2022.   Sink or Float, Aspex Portsmouth, UK

2021.    Tele:(gram) : Frequencies of the Forest, BilbaoArte Foundation, Spain.

2020.   Song of the Siren, Korai Project, Nicosia, Cyprus.

2020.   Net:Camouflage, Black Box Gallery, UCA, Farnham, Kent.

2018.     If all else fails, Fieldworks Gallery, Visual Art Centre, UT Austin.

2017.     October Moon, Menier Gallery, London

GROUP

2023.    Forest for the trees, ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany

2022.    Rhinoceros, Haarlam Art Space, UK 

2022.    The World in Your Pocket, Stone Space, London, UK.

2021.     Correspondence 01, Broadway Gallery & Exeter Phoenix, England.

2021.     Emergency, Apex Gallery, Portsmouth. 

2021.     Residency, Muse 269, Portobello Road, London.

2020.    ONE, Subsidary Projects, San Mei Gallery, London. 

2020.    Ancient Deities, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2020.    LGM-1, The Function Suite, London E15.

2020.    Wild Biyoo, The Tribe Goa, India

2019.     Worlds Between, Pill Box, Farnham, Kent.

2019.     Through the Looking Glass, Lumen Gallery x Ugly Duck, London SE1.

2019.     Pete the Monkey, Dieppe, France

2019.     SHOW, Royal College of Art, London SW7.

2019.     National Sculpture Prize, Broomhill Sculpture Park, Devon.

2019.     Dirty Hands and Revelations, Standpoint Gallery, Hoxton Square E1

2019.     Dare to know, Dyson Gallery, London SW11.

2018.     The Petting Zoo, Hockney Gallery, London W7.

2018.     It sounds like Cher, Central Space, Visual Arts Centre, UT Austin.

2018.     A bag of sand, Shed 1, University of Texas, Austin.

2018.     Supercult, Hockney Gallery, London W7.

2018.     Expanded Museum, Courtyard Gallery, London W7.

2018.     London Craft Week, Carpenters Hall, London City, London.

2017.     WIP, RCA Sculpture, Howie Street, London SW11.

2016.     / W^NDER/.1, 5th Base Gallery, London, E1 

2015.    FACE, Royal Opera Arcade, London.

2015.    Newcomers, Art in Action, Waterperry, Oxfordshire

2015.    HUMAN: SCALE, Westbury Arts Centre, Milton Keynes (duo).

2015.    The Eternal City, The Underdog Gallery, Bermondsey, London.​​

Public Sculpture

2022.   The weight of the sky, Arte Contemporary, La Rapita, Spain

2021.    Watford Memorial, Watford Hospital, Watford Borough Council, Herts.

2019.    The Wild Things Are, Broomhill Sculpture Gardens, Barnstaple, Devon.

2017.     The Tuckshop Tanner, Archbishop's Park, Lambeth Council, London

2013.     Shield, The Honorary Artillery Company, Old Street London

Publications

2023.   Windfall Magazine Issue 4

2023.   When The Moon Howls

2022.   They flower into deadly nightshade

2022.   Sink of Float : An Artificial Island

2021.    Tele:gram (Frequencies of the forest)

2019.    Sculpture is Moonlight

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