I am a maker working between art and design.

My work investigates and constructs alternative narratives of systems, ecologies and social structures via process-driven, active methods of enquiry, refusing and resisting normative capitalist structures and temporalities.

My practice is rooted in land and is often site specific, sometimes celebratory, sometimes subversive - frequently inconclusive. I dig, gather, axe, and grow my materials, reframing and reflecting on issues around pollution, production and overwhelming consumption.

Exploring the complexities of care, civic responsibility, cyclic (re)generative practices and DIY culture the outcomes of my work broadly manifests as sculpture, performance and community engaged collaboration.


Currently:

Associate Lecturer in Design - Goldsmiths, University of London (UK) / 2025
 
Freelance artist / facilitator, London 

Set builder / Art Fabricator at Wyliewood Ltd / ongoing - since 2024


Past:

2025:

Sylva Wood School, Gender and Diversity project, 2025

Carpentery work across various bespoke narrowboat design and fit outs, 2025

2024:

Freelance artist / facilitator, running 1:1 and group workshops

Associate Lecturer in Design - Goldsmiths, University of London (UK), 2024

The Yard - Group exhibition, The Yard, Prestiegne, 2024

2023:

Wetlands - solo exhibition, Trowbridge Gardens Gallery, 2023 

Future of Life, HfG Karlsruhe, 2023

Goldsmiths Prize Commission, 2023 

ReRooted Artist Residency -  Arbeit, Jun-Nov 2023

Festival of Community, Stafforshire St, Peckham Platform and F.A.T Studio, London, 2023

Graduate Learning Facilitator, BA Design Goldsmith University, 2022 - 2023

Assistant studio coordinator, Goldsmiths University, 2022 - 2023

2022:

Where Are The Margins Exhibition, Copeland Gallery, Peckham, Jun 2022

Research assistant for Katherine May, Mar-Jul 2022

2021:

Live brief We Made That X Goldsmiths University, 2021

 

Workshops:

2024, Wild Clay, Talk About Art, Alexander McLeod Primary School, London

2023, Wild Clay Workshop series for ReRooted Residency

2023, From the Soil Up, Stafforshire St, Peckham, London

2022, Clay Bodies, Wormwood Scrubs, London

2022Common Waters, Regents Canal, London

2020, Tow Path Baskets, Regents Canal, London


Talks:

ARUP: But what if Giants, Feng Shui, Carpets, Rivers, Wind and Sour Dough had something to do with ARUP? 2022


Education:

Sylva Wood School, Oxfordshire, 2023-2024

BA Design, First Class Hons, Goldsmiths University, 2019-2022








Contact:

Email: 
jessyharpersolomon@gmail.com

Instagram:
@jessysolomon.makes