Jessica Longmore
Committee Member

Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for BA Hons Fine Art at Staffordshire University

Jessica Longmore is an artist, curator and educator.

As a lecturer Jessica has taught at various institutions across the UK, but also at the Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts, China and Clermont-Ferrand School of Fine Arts, France. Jessica joined Staffordshire University in 2012, where she holds the position of senior lecturer. Jessica is currently course leader for BA Fine Art and formally course leader for Art & Design Foundation. Jessica has a long history of teaching on Foundation courses and is passionate about this transformative year of education, which reveals a students’ true potential. Jessica’s particular area of interest in teaching is finding ways to create a sense of belonging within the art school environment and encourage safe spaces to nurture, encourage and essentially raise minoritised voices.

Jessica’s Fine Art practice combines sculpture, installation, performance, photography and publications and centres on themes such as thresholds, boundaries and domains; often occupying uneasy spaces. She has exhibited across the world, in countries such as USA, France, Finland, The Netherlands and China – as well as throughout the UK. Jessica has devised and curated GLINT, which examines the specific and varied nature of creative inspiration, asking artists to track and document ‘the moment the work happened’, thereby creating an archive of ‘lightbulb moments’ from artists across the world.

 After a lifetime of living in Manchester, Jessica now resides in the Cheshire countryside with her partner and children.