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Jessie Farnsworth's (b. 2002, Nottingham) work is driven by internal dialogue and sensory experience - a release of thought, memory, and emotion into shape, colour, and form, through painting, drawing, scribbling, and puzzle-solving. Painting is where she engages in a continuous internal conversation and her disabilities find visual articulation: vivid, layered, and rhythmic compositions emerge from a brain constantly in motion, always searching for meaning through mark-making. Music, sound, and emotional stimulus are key influences, although she's only begun to reflect on their deeper impact on her choices as a painter.

2021-2024: Manchester School of Art, First Class Honours in BA (Hons) Fine Art

2020-2021: Nottingham City College, Distinction in Level 4 UAL Art Foundation

(Current) Perennial, Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth

Paper Cuts 2, Group Exhibition, 50MV Gallery, Liverpool

The Manchester Contemporary, UK Contemporary Art Fair, Manchester Central, Manchester

Frequencies, Group Exhibition, Oceans Apart, Manchester

MADE IT 2024 Show, Group Exhibition, SEESAW, Manchester

Humm Dinger, Group Exhibition, FG Gallery, Knutsford

A to Z and Back Again: Eighty-One Artworks in Descending Order of Size and Ascending Order of Duration, Group Exhibition, Holden Gallery, Manchester

Meet the Future, Degree Show Exhibition, Manchester School of Art, Manchester

Tracing Connections, Group Exhibition by MSOA Curatorial Collective, Manchester School of Art, Manchester

Calico, Group Exhibition, The Salutation Pub, Manchester

Traces Unveiled, Group Exhibition by MSOA Curatorial Collective, Manchester School of Art, Manchester

Whiteknights Studio Trail, Group Exhibition, Reading

Disturb + Reassure, Group Exhibition, Joshua Brooks, Manchester

From Joya, Group Exhibition, Manchester School of Art, Manchester

Jackson's Art Prize 2025 (Extended Longlist)

Wallace Seymour Painting Prize 2024

Freelands Painting Prize 2024 Nominee for Manchester School of Art

Joya: AiR - Art & Ecology (2022), Cortijada Los Gázquez, Vélez Blanco