Jessie Stevenson (b. 1993, Norwich, UK) is a London based artist. She graduated from Central Saint Martins with a BA in Fine Art in 2017 and completed her MFA in Painting at the Slade in 2022, for which she received The Bartolomeu dos Santos Award. She was the Honorary Research Fellow to the Slade Material Research Project 2023–2025.
Stevenson’s immersive abstract paintings are inspired by nature, personal experience, and materiality, evoking a deep sense of nostalgia and escapism. Her expansive approach to painting incorporates writing, drawing, and animation, often finding associations that span time and place: ancient history and Romantic poetry, geographical hinterlands and urban dynamics. Together, these elements offer a visual palimpsest of memories. Adaptable, unfixed, and ephemeral, the canvas becomes a wilderness of its own; a shifting painterly landscape where marks, pigments, and words gather into poetic visions evoking a deep sense of nostalgia and escapism.
Solo exhibitions include; ‘From Hiding Places Ten Years Deep’, Berntson Bhattacharjee, London (2024); ‘The Circling Deeps’, Sapling Gallery, London (2023); ‘Broken Gleam’, Berntson Bhattacharjee, Stockholm (2022); ‘Way Out East’, Sapling Gallery, London (2021). Art fairs include; (Upcoming) Untitled Art, Miami Beach, solo booth, with Berntson Bhattacharjee, Miami (2025); Art Brussels Fair, duo booth, with Berntson Bhattacharjee, Brussels (2025); and Market Art Fair, solo booth, with Berntson Bhattacharjee, Stockholm (2024). Group exhibitions include; ‘Art of Wishes’, Auction, Phillips, London (2025); ‘Build it, Beat it’, GOSH Auction, Christies, London (2025); ‘Medium Rare’, Berntson Bhattacharjee Gallery, London (2025); ‘Ithaca’, Herald St Gallery, London (2023); ‘Babele’, Spazio Musa, Turin (2023); ‘The Whitechapel Gallery Art Icon Charity Auction’, Phillips, London (2023); ‘Dreaming in Colour’, Bonhams, London (2022); ‘The Pump House’, Berntson Bhattacharjee, London (2022); ‘Stäying Alive’, Berntson Bhattacharjee, Stockholm (2021). Stevenson was awarded the Cass Art Prize in 2017 and was the recipient of the 2021 Col Art Residency, London. In November 2022, she completed her residency as part of The Richard Ford Award at The Prado Museum, Madrid.