by Jess Sutton BA(Hons)
Oil paint on cotton canvas
h: 18 w: 13 d: 2 (cms).
€400
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About the Artist
Jess Sutton BA(Hons)
Website: www.jess-sutton.com
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Statement
Light flickers, flashes and streams throughout my work, mirroring the energy of life. Light and the notion of coincidences are important throughout my work. Juxtaposing elements within and between works, I seek to engage the viewer in a dialogue about the paradox of existence in which creation and destruction co-exist.
My work takes form through video, painting, performance, photography, collage and installation. As I continue my fascination with space, time and existence, ideas flow between the different media. I re-frame and emphasise occurrences, observing through a window or a camera lens. The glass separates me from my subject and I become an observer of time. Recent video works explore our deep need to connect with nature and its energy whilst living on a planet that we are simultaneously destroying. Painting has become a way of creating the ultimate still. Glass and reflective surfaces remain a constant source of interest. They are like windows on another dimension, even lakes become mirrors, giving the sky back to the earth. They break the monotony of the horizon and burn a hole in time and space.
The garden where I live has become a centre of research where I experiment, building connections with the natural world in the middle of a busy city. I explore the jarring contrast between the urban and the natural as the two worlds overlap. Tending the garden is part of my research. Immersed in the peace of the garden I become submerged in my thoughts as my inner world expands. I imagine extensions to reality, I exist between two worlds.
Born in the East Coast town of Grimsby, UK, Jess graduated from BA Contemporary Arts at Nottingham Trent University in 2004. Since leaving the UK in 2011, she has lived and worked in Brussels.
Her works appear in the collection of the Royal Meteorological Institute Belgium and are part of private collections in America, Austria, Belgium, France and the United Arab Emirates. Notable exhibitions include solo shows: 31 Days, Williams Art Gallery, Cambridge UK (2010) and Reflections and Absences, Maison Pelgrims, Brussels, (2016) and The Gift at Etincelle, Namur (2024) . She has won prizes including; Skylogue winner of Photobook Of The Year at the Digital Printer Awards 2010, UK, Prix du Public at Prix Hamesse #31, Brussels, mention Patrick Lecomte for photography, Prix Hamesse #32, Brussels.
After significant career breaks to raise her two children born in 2013 and 2017, Jess returned to her artistic practice in 2022. Video camera in hand, she started research in the garden. In this sanctuary, the challenge and position of being a mother/artist colours her work. Her solo exhibition in April 2023 titled;A Veiled Understanding was her contribution to Meet My Arts 2023, The Parcours d’artistes d’Uccle and marked her return to the scene.
Biography
B: 1981, Grimsby, UK
Qualifications
2016-2017 Bookbinding, Academie des Beaux Arts J.J. Gaillard, St Gilles, Brussels, BE
2011-2013 Bookbinding, Academie des Beaux Arts J.J. Gaillard, St Gilles, Brussels, BE
2005-2006 PGCE Art and Design teaching qualification, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK
2001-2004 1st Class Honours: BA (Hons) Contemporary Arts, Nottingham Trent University UK
Awards
2016 Prix Hamesse # 32 Mention Patrick Lecomte for photography, BE
2015 Prix Hamesse # 31, Prix du Public: Exhibition in Saint-Gilles at Maison Pelgrims, BE
2010 Skylogue book – Photobook Of The Year, Digital Printer Awards, London, UK
2008 Second Prize; The Carter Jonas Prize For a Young Artist by Cambridge Drawing Society, UK
Solo exhibitions
2025 Fire On The Horizon as part of the Parcours d’artistes d’Uccle, Atelier in Beeld, Uccle, Brussels, BE
2024 The Gift, Etincelle art centre, Rue des Dames Blanches, 28, Namur, BE
2024 Two Worlds private exhibition, Uccle, Brussels BE
2023 A Veiled Understanding as part of Meet My Arts open studios event, Uccle, Brussels BE
2016 REFLECTIONS AND ABSENCES, Maison Pelgrims, Saint-Gilles, Rue du Parme 69, Bruxelles, BE.
2014 Neess Encadrers, Rue du Page, Ixelles, Brussels, BE
2013 Royal Meteorological Institute, as part of their open day event, Bruxelles, BE
2013 Somewhere, Dreaming, rue du Viaduc 62, Brussels, BE
2010 31 DAYS exhibition at Williams Art gallery, Gwydir Street, Cambridge, UK
2005 Reflections video installation, As part of the Sensitive Skin Season Of Interdisciplinary Arts, The Yard
Gallery, Wolllaton Hall Nottingham, UK
Selected group exhibitions
2024
Je bent een beetje te laat… Moment Festival, Agnetenklooster, Tongeren, BE
Rendez-vous au jardin, Maison des Arts, Rue du Doyenné, Uccle, BE
Performance of The Gift Echo, I Garden Tales/Rendezvous au Jardin event, Uccle BE
2023
Home exhibition, The Green Door Gallery, Rue Murillo, 21, Brussels, BE
2016
Prix Hamesse #32 La Maison du Peuple, Saint-Gilles, Brussels, BE
2015
Prix Hamesse #31, La Maison du Peuple, Saint-Gilles, Brussels, BE
2013
Over the Sea to the Sky exhibition, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
2012
ECHO exhibition. (Parcours d’artistes du Maelbeek/Ixelles). With artist Jocelyne Coster at Rue du Viaduc, 62, Brussels, BE
Labyrinthe Exhibition,Galerie Vertige, 60 rue de Veeweyde, Brussels, BE
Everything Will Be Alright, Christmas Exhibition. Byard Art, Kings Parade, Cambridge. UK
Summer Exhibition. Byard Art, Kings Parade, Cambridge, UK
2011
Christmas exhibition, Byard Art, Cambridge, UK
Summer exhibition at Byard Art, Kings Parade, Cambridge, UK
Breath of Fresh Air exhibition, Byard Art, Kings Parade, Cambridge, UK
2010
Fitz Favourites exhibition, Williams Art, Gwydir Street, Cambridge, UK
Pieces of sky on display at Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
2009
Cambridge Open Studios, 49 Vinery Road, Cambridge, UK.
Landscapes 2 show, Williams Art, Gwydir Street, Cambridge, UK
2008
5@5 Landscapes exhibition at Williams Art and Antiques, Gwydir Street, Cambridge, UK.
Candid Arts, ‘Flea Circus’ event. Angel Islington, London, UK.
55@5 at Williams Art and Antiques, Gwydir Street, Cambridge, UK.
Work in institutions
Royal Meteorological Institute, Brussels, BE
Will you remember me when you see the sky? 1.2m x 2m, oil paint on canvas, 2012. Burn baby burn (Disco inferno) 60cm x 120cm oil paint on canvas, work acquired in 2013
Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK
Close (July 15th 2008), 1.6m x 2m, oil paint on canvas, 2008
Teaching
2012 Art teacher, Summer School at ISB, Boitsfort, Brussels, BE
2006-2011 Art teacher at Longsands Academy to students aged 11-18, exams at KS3, GCSE, AS and A2 2006-2009 fulltime, 2009-2011 part-time, St Neots, UK
Artist talks
2011 Ely Arts Society, Ely, UK.
2024 Viewfinders photography club, Brussels
Artist collectives
2008-2010 COS- Cambridge Open Studios
2008-2009 CAM- Cambridge Art Movement
2004 Graft Collective, Nottingham
