Jessie Stevenson is a London based artist and educator who was the Honorary Research Fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art from 2023 to 2025. She has exhibited internationally and received The Richard Ford Award at the Prado Museum (2022) as well as the Bartolomeu dos Santos Graduate Award from the Slade School of Fine Art (2022). Stevenson addresses themes of escapism, exploring how memory, travel, and cultural transitions throughout history alter our interpretation of place. She uses the natural world, poetry, and historical imagery to conjure feelings of visual harmony and spatial uncertainty. Recently, she examined the California coastline and the concept of American 'Expansion,' suggesting how landscape tropes relate to human intervention and beauty within a contemporary nature-culture dynamic.
Stevenson’s awards and residencies include The Richard Ford Award at The Prado Museum, Madrid (2022), the Col Art Residency in London (2021), the Cass Art Prize (2017), and the Joya: AiR Residency in Spain (2019).