CURRENT WORK
CURRENT WORK
“You and I clamber up the rough path,
drips gathered on lichen and granite.
The wind blows rain in our faces.
A dozen yards beneath our feet
the escarpment drops away.
I think of those secret lives forever
hidden whose songs we will not hear.
From one end of this valley
to the other are nothing
but reasons to live.”
Escarpment trail - Robert Smith
Hello, my name is Jess. I am an artist, creative health practitioner and ecotherapist. My work spans 15+ years of multidisciplinary practice across ecological arts, community building and embodied activism.
Moving between nature-based arts and therapies, I explore the creative and generative possibilities that can emerge through soulful engagement with diverse lands, materials and ecologies.
Rooted in queer ecological thinking and through bodily approaches, I dance between movement, performance, experimental video and participatory practice to engage with themes of queer identity, visibility/invisibility, climate, loss, and in mapping more grounded and hopeful futures in times of uncertainty.
Lately, I find myself wading among the bullrushes, grasses and seedheads of an overgrown pond in rural Mid-Wales where I am tending questions on specificity, place-attachment and multispecies care.
In my work with communities, I partner with Field Notes / Nodiadau Maes CIC, a collective of rural LGBTQIA+ makers exploring how queer understandings of relationship, fluidity and interdependence can guide the ways we care for each other and our living world.
I’m passionate about collaboration and the things that become possible through collective making and discovery.
In my experience, it is often through the telling, weaving and mirroring of our stories that we are brought closer towards our shared humanity and co-existence.
Notes on Becoming:
I'm so glad you found my website. It is slowly being updated and I look forward to sharing more of my work and the things I offer here.
Please come back again as things continue to emerge.