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Jessie Stevenson – MA/MFA
Curriculum Vitae
Born 1993, Norwich, UK
www.jessiestevenson.com
@jessiemstevensonEducation
2019 - 2022
Masters in Fine Art Painting, Slade School of Fine Art2013 - 2017
BA Hon Fine Art, Central Saint Martins2011 - 2013
Foundation Diploma and Painting Course, Leith School of ArtAwards
2022, The Richard Ford Award, The Prado Museum, Madrid
2021, Col Art Residency, The Fine Art Collective, London
2019, JOYA: Residency, Sierra María-Los Vélez National Park, Spain
2017, The Cass Art Prize, Central Saint Martins Graduate Award
2015, Ackademie Der Bildenen Künste, Erasmus programme, Vienna
Jessie Stevenson – MA/MFA
My work explores the potency of the North Norfolk landscape; both as a poetic and philosophical gesture. A download of physical energy, I want to embody the sensory experience of nature with daring mark making and uninhibited movement.
I draw inspiration from the colours and techniques of Old Masters including J. M. W. Turner and Eugène Delacroix, as well as the Romantic poetry of William Wordsworth. These are combined with contemporary pop culture references, incorporating colourways from fashion advertising and television series such as the period drama Bridgerton. Working from digital moving images, contemporary pigments, and frenetic 'colour beginnings' in multiple sketchbooks; I want to pursue my own experience of memory and place to create a feeling of sensory pleasure and spatial uncertainty in the work.