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JESSICA WILSON BIO

Nata nella Contea di Bedfordshire nel 1986, Jessica Wilson studia prima presso l’University College Falmouth, sezione Fine Art, quindi alla scuola d’arte sperimentale nell’East London Turps Banana Painting Program. Co-fonda e dirige, nel 2013, The Juncture, iniziativa che incoraggia il dialogo artistico in uno spazio tra studio e galleria. Finalista nel 2015 della Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary, nello stesso anno partecipa alla mostra bipersonale Lonely Long Feett, Standpoint, Londra. Nel 2016 inizia a frequentare un master alla Glasgow School of Art, dove sviluppa pienamente il suo linguaggio segnico minimalista e colorista. Partecipa a numerose mostre fra Londra e Glasgow, curando nel 2017 Steal the Show a Bentinck Street, Glasgow.

Al 2017 risale la mostra personale Mary, Blinky, Jessica, Yay! alla Gerald Moore Gallery e il primo incontro con la Galleria d’Arte Niccoli: le immagini social dei lavori dell’artista scozzese compaiono spesso suggerite nel feed del profilo della galleria e così dove non arriva il fato arriva l’incrocio di dati di un algoritmo. Da questa reiterata proposta visiva nasce l’idea di un contatto, il primo viaggio a Glasgow, l’acquisizione di una mostra e successivamente di un corposo blocco di opere da parte della Galleria Niccoli, dando vita a un sodalizio che dura ormai da più di cinque anni.

EDUCATION 

2016 – Glasgow School of Art, Masters in Fine Art Practice

2012 – Turps Banana, Painters Studio Programme London 

2011 – University College Falmouth, BA (Hons) Fine Art  

2008 – Bedford College, Foundation Diploma in Fine Art

 

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2023 Artist in Residence, Galleria d’arte Niccoli, Terni, Italy

2022 Artist in Residence, Galleria d’arte Niccoli – Parma, Italy

2022 Open Project Fund, Creative Scotland, Glasgow

2021 Visual Arts & Crafts Maker Awards, Glasgow

2015 Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary- Finalist 

2015 Dumfries House, Scotland – Artist in Residence 

                      

EXHIBITION RECORD

Forthcoming

CROSSROADS Galleria Umberto Benappi Torino, Italy

Miss Uragano, Chiara Guidi, Lunetta11 & Galleria d’arte Niccoli at Casa Gramsci, Torino, Italy

Solo show at Galleria d’Arte Niccoli, Parma, Italy

Solo show at Ronchini, London

2023

Rossori Dell’Arte (The Redness of Art) Ronchini, London

2022

Boyfriends (solo) Roma Arte in Nuvola,Galleria d’Arte Niccoli, Rome, Italy

I knew you were trouble when you walked in (solo) Art Verona, Galleria d’Arte Niccoli, Verona, Italy

I wish people liked me more (solo) Pavilion Pavilion, Glasgow

Memory and Matter Arte Fiera, Galleria d’Arte Niccoli, Bologna, Italy

2020

Through the Avant-Garde APE Parma Museum, Italy

2019

How small a thought Art Now, Margate

Surface Tension Steve Turner, Los Angeles

2017

Mary, Blinky, Jessica, Yay! (solo) Gerald Moore Gallery, London

Got It For Cheap 2017 0-0 LA Athens, Vancouver, Copenhagen, Oslo, LA

Summer Auction Syson Gallery, Nottingham

Art Car Boot Fair, London

Steal the Show Bentinck Street, Glasgow

The Undead Painters present FLASH SALON III Saturation Point, London

 

2016

Paper Cuts Transition Gallery, London

Secret Auction, Art on a Postcard Maddox Gallery, London

Collective Memory (the past and future is ours)  Celine, Glasgow & Bushwick Open Studios, New York 

Graduate Degree Show – Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow

Spectrum – Open Exhibition PS Mirabel, Manchester

The Undead Painters present FLASH SALON II Bond House Gallery, London

A Camel is a Horse – Transmission Members Show Transmission Gallery, Glasgow

The Smaller The Larger Sobering Gallery, Paris

Constant Cravings Taidelaboratorio Viiskulma, Helsinki 

Art Car Boot Fair  London, Hastings

Diamonds and Pearls Glasgow School of Art Project Space, Glasgow 

Prime Wall Projects, Montrose, Scotland

 

2015

Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary Mall Galleries, London

Charity Auction, Art on a Postcard Soho Revue, London

The Undead Painters present FLASH SALON Bond House Gallery, London

Art Car Boot Fair  London, Margate

Lonely Long Feet – Sara Kerry, Jessica Wilson Standpoint, London

Bow Arts Open Studios The Nunnery, London

 

2014

Surfacing East Street Arts, Leeds

Composed Formations The Juncture at Unit 3, London

Mark Wallinger selects The Best of Bow Arts Bermondsey Project, London

Summer Saloon Lion and Lamb, London and Suffolk

Art Car Boot Fair  London, Liverpool, Folkestone

Bow Arts Open Studios The Nunnery, London

Show, but also tell The Gallery, King’s College London, London

Preamble The Juncture at Unit 3, London                  

First Come, First Served Lion and Lamb, London

 

2013     

Freeze 13 The Mayor’s Parlour, London

Turps Banana Painting Programme Vigo, London

Turps Banana Studio Exhibition V22, London                       

Artist of the Day Flowers Gallery, London                        

Art Car Boot Fair Brick Lane Yard, London

Turps Banana Interim Show The Mayor’s Parlour, London 

An Undelivered Postcard from the Edge of the World Jotta, London

First Come, First Served Lion and Lamb, London                

CURATORIAL/ PROJECTS

2017 Steal the Show curated by Jessica Wilson Bentinck Street, Glasgow

2013 Co-founder of The Juncture, an artist led initiative encouraging dialogue in a space between studio and gallery

REVIEWS/ INTERVIEWS

Jessica Wilson – Young Space

“Creation is the rebellion” Interview with Jessica Wilson – The Aesthete Hunter

Jessica Wilson – Floorr Magazine Issue 3

Patterns That Connect – Summer Saloon Show 2014, Lion and Lamb