Amber Jesson RCA

Amber Jesson (b.1998) is a London based visual artist and curator. She has just completed her Master's Degree in Printmaking at the Royal College of Art, where she received the Burberry Design Scholarship to fund her studies. Adopting the reflective nature of walking as a restorative practice and a journey to self-discovery, Amber’s practice explores transformation, our origins, feminine power and the traces in which we leave behind. Travelling on foot to sacred sites and areas in which the veil between land & person feels indistinct is where she situates herself. It is within these spaces, surrounded by what she describes as 'the feminine powers that exist within the land. I walk, I heal, I breathe'. Documenting these moments of self-reflection through designing and making her own peculiar pinhole cameras, an elementary device which sees and seizes without complex mechanics, Amber 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. She finds an intimacy in which she is able to draw upon the feminine power of all those who have come before her, the boundaries between past, present and future merging. Her photographs are not to be understood as memories however, but rather as moments that go beyond time and space, impressionistically collected upon a single image.