Amber Jesson: Deep Within

About the artist:

Amber Jesson is a London based visual artist and curator, currently completing her Master's Degree in Printmaking at the Royal College of Art. Adopting the reflective nature of walking as a restorative practice and a journey to self-discovery, Jesson’s practice explores transformation, our origins, feminine power and the traces in which we leave behind. Documenting moments of self-reflection through designing and making her own peculiar pinhole cameras, an elementary device which sees and seizes without complex mechanics, Jesson attempts to cross the threshold between the seen and unseen. Light transcends through sacred spaces just as light is her medium contained within her cameras, a 'womb-like vessel' in which transformation, growth and emergence occurs. For her, that parallel is fundamental.

Jesson has been awarded the Founder Prize at the Bethlem Gallery Art Fair, the Burberry Scholarship Award at the Royal College of Art for MA Printmaking Programme, and the Paget & Clephan Award at De Montford University.