Jessica is a visual movement artist. Originally from London she has been living in Carmarthenshire, Wales since 2002, where she has a movement studio.
She has been making and showing work since 1989 within experimental dance venues and galleries. She has collaborated with film, dance, visual and sound artists. Her work is in live performance, installation and painting.
Jessica’s performances are playful, inventive and show vulnerability. She dances with objects and responds to location in an interplay creating a collage including somatic dance and live art. Through her improvisations, elements from family history, personal relationships and everyday life situations surface in a dreamscape of the abstract and concrete.
She is drawn to the wild spaces of the Black Mountain where she lives.
Jessica holds a BA hons from Goldsmiths College 1989, she studied full-time in post grad at the Centre of New Dance Development, Arnhem 1993 and gained an MA Fine art and Contemporary Dialogues Swansea Arts College in 2012. She qualified as an Iyengar yoga teacher in 1998. She has produced over 20 solo works and collaborative performances. She has also curated time-based events and collective projects for artists crossing visual art and dance.