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Jessica Wetherly

London/Hertfordshire
A London based sculptor, Jessica’s work navigates the blindness of an anthropocentric society with a millennial sci-fi aesthetic.

A London based sculptor, Jessica’s work navigates the blindness of an anthropocentric society where conflicts of natural and artificial, animate and inanimate, technology, machine, body, come in to question. Curious critters appear in surreal landscapes with a sci fi aesthetic that exposes a certain agency as we face the end of the Anthropocene and unravels a potential in the disorientation associated with the loss of the future. Her work is intuitive and playful using a range of everyday materials which are worked in a way that reflects her background in traditional sculpture techniques of modelling, moulding and casting. Jessica is a QEST Scholar and graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Sculpture 2019. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, When the Moon Howls was a recent solo show in Weimar, Germany, 2023. In 2022, Wetherly presented Sink or Float at Aspex Portsmouth, They flower into deadly nightshade at Muse Gallery and made To be as light as the sky a public sculpture for Arte La Rapita. Wetherly was also selected for a solo show of International Residency 2020 at Bilbao Arte resulting in her show Tele.(gram) in 2021. She was the winner of the Broomhill National Sculpture Prize 2019 and hold a GBA Award 2020 from the Royal Society of Sculptors. She has both public and private commissions including a permanent statue in Archbishop’s Park, Lambeth. 

 

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