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Tender - Southwark Park Galleries - Summer 2025

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

Tender was a solo show exploring the labour of care-giving at Southwark Park Galleries. Small intimate paintings sat alongside a site-specific installation, where unruly paintings spilled across the gallery wall.

I was awarded this opportunity as the winner of the Southwark Park Galleries’ 40th Annual Open in 2024.

This exhibition was generously supported by Arts Council England and Breckman & Company.

Installation view: Jess Blandford, Tender (2025) at Southwark Park Galleries © the artist. Photos © Mischa Haller 

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British Art Fair - Saatchi Gallery

British Art Fair
24-27th September 2026
Saatchi Gallery, Kings Road, London.

Showing with Kittoe Contemporary, Stand 30.

‘Extra Screentime, 2025’ Selected for the curated collection of ‘Works under £5000’

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Affordable Art Fair, Battersea

I’m delighted to have shown with Kittoe Contemporary at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea in 2025 and 2026.

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Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
14-18 October 2026
Kittoe Contemporary Stand I4

 ‘Another Birthday Party’ Selected by Yomi Adegoke as one of her top 5 picks of the Affordable Art Fair 2026.

‘Another Birthday Party’ Selected by Yomi Adegoke as one of her top 5 picks of the Affordable Art Fair 2026.

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 ‘Hangry’ selected as Affordable Art Fair’s #ArtworkOfTheWeek in August 2025.

‘Hangry’ selected as Affordable Art Fair’s #ArtworkOfTheWeek in August 2025.

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Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
15-19 October 2025
Kittoe Contemporary - Stand I4

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Trouble Sleeping, 2025

 Bickering Again, 2025

Bickering Again, 2025

 Thinking of everything, 2025

Thinking of everything, 2025

Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions

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.

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 Apart from that, everything’s fine, 2024 Acrylic on Linen 22×27cm  Selected for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025

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

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

The Idea of Goodness (after Carol Shields)
Oil on Gesso Board, 2022
30cm x 30cm
Selected for Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023

The Weight of Things

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.

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Southwark Park Galleries

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.

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(Un)Visible

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. 

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