Jessica Harby
American-born artist living and working in Northampton. Northampton
On this International Women’s Day, I was dismayed to see a seemingly professionally produced video from a curator promoting their support of what they felt were underrepresented women artists. They had contacted me last year with an invitation to exhibit. […]
During my last session with Lucy Day, I shared with her my current Big Question: How do I make others feel welcome and comfortable in the art world when I so often feel unwelcome and uncomfortable? As a working-class artist, […]
1 Folly for a Flyover (2011) – Assemble https://assemblestudio.co.uk/projects/folly-for-a-flyover 2 Interview with Sonia Boyce who removed John William Waterhouse’s painting Hylas and the Nymphs as part of her takeover of Manchester Art Gallery https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/mar/19/hylas-nymphs-manchester-art-gallery-sonia-boyce-interview 3 2014 interview with Alistair Hudson https://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/culture-professionals-blog/2014/oct/21/alistair-hudson-mima-modern-art
I’m going to start this blog the only way I know how: making reference to a timely bit of art news and admitting that in 2004 I accidentally ate part of an exhibition