DR JESSICA POTTER
Jessica Potter is an artist and researcher currently based at the Royal College of Art. Her practice is sensitive to the acts and processes of life, labour, and care, considered through photography and language. She completed a PhD by practice at the Royal College of Art in 2013 entitled The Photograph as a Site of Writing. She is a founder member of the Health and Care Research Cluster at the Royal College of Art and has a specific interest in collaborative interdisciplinary forms of research that engage biodiverse habitats and ecologies of care. Current research projects explore the relationship between language and landscape through developing “attentive methodologies”. The Making of a Meadow is a collaborative and interdisciplinary project engaging practices of field research in articulating, furthering, and supporting biodiverse habitats, with the specific aim of supporting the UNESCO Cross Channel Geo Park activities. Mountain Song is a current project engaged with Gaelic language archives to develop work that considers the relationship between labour, language, and landscape. Jess’s practice-based work approaches ecology and field research, considering questions of commonality alongside processes of description and encounter found in phenomenological thought. Photographic processes, drawing and moving image come together to describe forms from erratic glacial rocks to meadow plants. Jess is an editor at Copy Press, with a particular focus on Readers Union activities. She also engages with multi-generational forms of education through public workshops and voluntary work in primary school settings to extend and build caring and attentive communities.
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