I am an artist and designer, making things and making things happen. 

Working across disciplines, I advocate for a holistic design approach. My work investigates and constructs  alternative narratives of systems, ecologies and social structures via process-driven, active methods of enquiry.

With a respect for slow and cyclic regenerative practices, I often work collaboratively using making and craft to ask critical questions. I am excited by the potential of design to challenge how we live and offer ways in which we might live better.



Currently:
 
Freelance artist / facilitator running 1:1 and group community workshops / ongoing - since 2021

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


Past:

Wetlands - solo exhibition, Trowbridge Gardens Gallery / Nov-Dec 2023

Goldsmiths Prize Commission / 2023

ReRooted Residency -  Arbeit / Jun-Nov 2023

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

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

Assistant studio coordinator, Goldsmiths University / 2022 - 2023

Where Are The Margins Exhibition, Copeland Gallery, Peckham / Jun 2023

Research assistant for Katherine May / Mar-Jul 2022

Live brief We Made That X Goldsmiths University / 2021

Illustrator for Seed to Saucepan Cookbook / 2020

Building and running festival kitchens / 2018-2019

Ape Project, Bristol / 2018
 


Workshops:

Talk About Art, Alexander McLeod Primary School, 2024

Wild Clay Workshop series for ReRooted Residency, 2023

From the Soil Up, 2023

Clay Bodies, 2022

Common Waters, 2022

Tow Path Baskets, 2020


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

Future of Life, HfG Karlsruhe, 2023

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








Contact:

Email: 
jessyharpersolomon@gmail.com

Instagram:
@jessysolomon.makes