Jessica Longmore is an artist, curator and educator.
Jessica’s Fine Art practice combines sculpture, installation, performance, photography and publications and centres on themes such as thresholds, boundaries and domains; often occupying uneasy spaces. She has exhibited across the world, in countries such as USA, France, Finland, The Netherlands and China – as well as throughout the UK.
Jessica has devised and curated GLINT, which examines the specific and varied nature of creative inspiration, asking artists to track and document ‘the moment the work happened’, thereby creating an archive of ‘lightbulb moments’ from artists across the world.
Jessica has an enduring fascination with 'the studio' as a site for art production; a privileged space, both nurturing and restrictive. Between 2008 and 2012, Jessica spent a day in 60 studios, belonging to other artists, across the UK and around the world. In each of these spaces Jessica created a piece of work and documented it with a single photograph. This project explored the potency of the studio, from the perspective of the interloper.
As a lecturer Jessica has taught at various institutions across the UK, but also at the Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts, China and Clermont-Ferrand School of Fine Arts, France. Jessica joined Staffordshire University in 2012, where she holds the position of senior lecturer. Jessica is currently course leader for BA Fine Art and formally course leader for Art & Design Foundation.
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