Working on personal projects and commissions, Jemma's practice explores the documentation of urban and industrial decline. She exhibits frequently in the UK and internationally.
Alongside her practice she works as a printmaking instructor at the University of the West of England specialsing in lithography and intaglio processes.
Associations -
Elected member of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, based at Bankside Gallery. www.banksidegallery.com
Elected member of the RWA, Bristol
Member of the Heritage Craft Association
Exhibitions -
Solo Shows
- Hidden Landscapes, Wills MemorialBuilding, Bristol, 2023
-Stones and Power, The Matings, Wirksworth, 2023
- Fragments, Hours, Bristol, 2022
- Double Elephant, Exeter, 2021
Group Shows
Summer Exhibition 2019, 2023, Royal Academy of Arts, London
RE Original's Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
London Original Print Fair,Royal Academy of Arts, London 2019, 2022, 2023
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
166th, 167th, 168th, 169th Annual Open Exhibition, RWA Bristol 2018
Interruptions, 4o Print Fest, Athens 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022
Flourish Award 2018, West Yorkshire Print Workshop
Exchange, North Street Gallery, Bristol 2018
Edition 4, 44AD Artspace, Bath, 2018
Artbook Berlin, Kunstquartier Bethanien, 2017
Bristol to Odense, Christmas Steps Gallery, Bristol 2017
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, 2017
165th Annual Open Exhibiton, RWA, Bristol 2017
National Open Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London 2017
Bristol meets Odense, Funen Graphic Studio, Denmark 2017
BABE, Arnolfini, Bristol 2017
The Masters, Bankside Gallery, London 2016
164th Annual Open Exhibition, RWA, Bristol 2016
Edition 2, 44AD Artspace, Bath 2016
Bristol Print Collective on Display, Unit 10, Bristol 2016
Good Impressions, Bath Artist's Studios, Bath 2015
The Summer Show, Mount House Gallery, Marlborough 2015
Edition 1 - 44AD Art Space, Bath 2015
Bath Fringe (Building Volumes) - Bath Artist's studio, Bath 2014
The Summer Show, Mount House Gallery, Marlborough 2014
Print Open 2013 - Bath Artist's studio, Bath 2013
Cities: All Dimensions - Tokarska Gallery, London 2013
RE Open - Bankside Gallery, London 2012
Awards and Grants
Elizabeth Greenshield Award 2019, 2020, 2023
Arts Council Developing Your Creative Practice grant, 2022
Eton Fund Grant 2019
Printmaking Today 'State of the Art Prize' 2018
People's choice Award at the Flourish Awards
Shortlisted for the Flourish Award 2018
Queen Elizabeth Scholarship 2018
Shortlisted for the Anthony Dawson Young Printmaker Award 2017
Danish International Arts Grant recipient
Shortlisted for Winston Churchill Memorial Travel Grant
Shortlisted for Print Future Awards
Gane Trust Award recipient
Marlborough Open Studio bursary grant
Residencies
Wirksworth Festival, Artist In Residence, 2022
Funen Graphic Studio, Denmark 2017
Bristol Record Office - Artist in residence, 2016
Education
MA in Multidisciplinary Printmaking
BA Drawing for Fine Art practice
Publications
- Printmaking Today Winter Issue 2018
- Pressing Matters Magazine, Issue 3
- Together and Sunspell, 2018