19 JULY - 21 SEPTEMBER 2025 // LAKE GALLERY
EXHIBITION OPEN: SALTER SPACE | WEDNESDAY - SUNDAY // 12–5PM
Southwark Park Galleries
1 Park Approach
Southwark Park
London SE16 2UA
8 mins walk from Surrey Quays, Canada Water or Bermondsey tube.
Free parking in the park for up to 4 hours (until 9pm).
Tender is a solo show exploring the labour of care-giving at Southwark Park Galleries. Small intimate paintings sit alongside a site-specific installation, where unruly paintings spill across the gallery wall.
I was awarded this opportunity as the winner of the galleries’ 40th Annual Open in 2024.
All works are available to buy from the gallery, see details of each work here
This exhibition is generously supported by Arts Council England and Breckman & Company.
Installation view: Jess Blandford, Tender (2025) at Southwark Park Galleries © the artist. Photos © Mischa Haller
I’m very grateful to have been selected for the RA Summer Exhibition in 2023, 2024 and 2025. These paintings have all sold but are available as limited edition prints.
Apart from that, everything’s fine, 2024
Acrylic on Linen
22×27cm
Selected for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025
Prams in Hallways, 2023
Acrylic & charcoal on canvas
39x28cm – open framed
Selected for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2024
The Idea of Goodness (after Carol Shields)
Oil on Gesso Board, 2022
30cm x 30cm
Selected for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023
Some Installation images of my abstract work alongside figurative paintings by Jane Hughes, as part of Artists’ Open House, May 2025.
The Weight of Things
Morley Gallery
with FOLD Art Collective
25-30 March 2025
‘The Weight of Things’ is an exhibition of new works by members of FOLD Art Collective. Borrowing the title from Marianne Fritz’s feminist novel, this show explores both physical and emotional weight, and questions personal and political burdens. The artists are curious about the physicality of made objects; pressure and gravity; abundance and scarcity; the solid and the fragile. Some things might float while others sink.
Featured Artists: Abigail Elverd, Bernadette Enright, Carmen Van Huisstede, Cass Breen, Clare Nicholson, Eleanor Street, Jane Hughes, Jess Blandford, Katherine Rose, Marina Nasso-Beard and Nell Martin. Curated by Eloise Dethier-Eaton.
I was thrilled to win the 2024 Southwark Park Open, with my painting ‘Creeping Shoulds, 2024. Awarded by artists Joy Lubinjo and Paul Purgas.
The prize is £500 and a solo show in the Salter Space at the main lake gallery. My solo show will open on 19th July 2025.
with FOLD Art Collective
27-30 September 2024
Safehouse 1, 139 Peckham Road SE15 3SN
This exhibition explored ideas of the unseen and the hidden. The works are preoccupied with overlooked objects, individuals, stories and systems, and unnoticed moments in everyday life.
