15/05/2026
JSS is pleased to be hosting curator Hettie Judah for 'How to Enter the Art World After...'
Sat 23 May, from 5pm
KIT FORM
Hettie will be joined by three of our very own studio holders Dorcas Casey, Louisa Fairclough and Jessa Fairbrother, alongside Ellie Kerr-Smiley whose work will be showing in KIT FORM
TICKETS VIA HEADFIRST
hdfst.uk/e153282
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DORCAS CASEY
Dorcas Casey is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Bristol. She is interested in dreams, intuition, folk rituals, memory and stories. She works with many different materials including fabric, plaster, bronze, and ceramics. Dorcas studied Sculpture and Multi-disciplinary printmaking. She is an Academician at the RWA and has a studio at Jamaica Street Studios in Stokes Croft.
LOUISA FAIRCLOUGH
Returned from a lengthy period of mental illness, sound is at the core of Louisa Fairclough's practice, both analogue (16mm film/ tape loops) and digital. Louisa is currently making sound/live work rooted in her lived experience of psychosis, a project funded by ACE. Louisa is a co-founder of BEEF, a film and sound collective based at Jamaica Street Studios.
JESSA FAIRBROTHER
Fairbrother uses stories of her maternal line, historical archives and the porous body with photography, performance, embroidery and writing. She completed an MA at the University of Westminster and is currently undertaking a practice-led PhD through Kingston University / Wellcome Collection, funded by Techne, which looks at miscarriage in relation to astrological methods of thinking. Her work appeared in Hayward Touring’s Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood and is held in several national collections in the UK
ELLIE KERR-SMILEY
Ellie Kerr-Smiley is a self-taught contemporary figurative artist, whose work looks to marry together the real and the imagined. With a strong link to storytelling, Ellie’s work explores the interiority of her sitters by combining traditional portraiture methods with illustrative representations of the internal self.
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Photo 3 credit: Trish Morissey
