Artist Bio
Jessica Ashman is an award winning multidisciplinary artist working in animation moving image, music (under the name of Spirit Sigh) performance and installation. Her work focuses on creating experimental narratives that explore gender, identity and race, drawing on the wider stories of the Black British diaspora communities she was raised in, in particular, the histories and oral testimonies that have been lost or hidden in these communities. Black radical theory and science fiction are also a heavy influence on Ashman’s practice, especially when it comes narrative world building.