​JESSICA TALLETT - ARTIST

Jessica Tallett 

 

22 year old artist currently studying BA(Hons) Fine Art at UCA Farnham (Yr 3)

 

Epsom UCA - Diploma in Art and Design Foundation - Distinction 

 

Exhibitions: 

Help! Savages! - Oxford House Gallery London 2014 

Centricity - 5th Base Gallery London 7 Sep 2015 – 9 Sep 2015

Gustav Metzger's Remember Nature 2015

Intervista - Linear Gallery 2016 

 

Curation:

Abstruse - Art Rebellion 31 March 2015-1 April 2015   

 

Competitions:

World Photography Organisation, Commended, Environment, Youth, 2013

 

Publications

 

The Future Bound: A Creative Year Book – Published May 2013

 

 

Gallery Experience

 

Volunteer at the New Ashgate Gallery Farnham

• Promotion of the Gallery at Farnham Maltings Festival of Craft

• Cataloguing and archiving artwork

• Assisting with professional photography of artwork and jewellery

• Navigating the electronic database

 

Artist Statement 

My current artwork takes a critical view on the way in which we as a species interact and regard the animals with which, we share our environment. Considering the institution of the zoo I question the entrapment of animals and the ways in which we have used them as commodities. Making use of the graphic nature of screen printing, collage and paper cutting the artwork questions the space of the cage, contrasting the steel bars with the fragility of paper, and therefore the fragility of nature. Within my collages I reuse my own photographs from family trips to the zoo in order to explore the ways in which my opinion of these spaces has been altered. These pieces become reimaginings of old memories. I also explore the idea of hunting and the animal trophy. These old photographs becoming a form of trophy that I take away with me in order to relive the fleeting animal gaze.