Jessica Akerman

Jessica Akerman makes objects and images that bring together social narratives, pattern and colour. She explores histories, systems and structures and how these are communicated. Themes include: the staging of power dynamics in national identity, women’s working lives and military engineering.

Working in sculpture, installation and object-making, her approach to materials is that of the amateur craft enthusiast, making salt dough fingers, weaving paper, pinning leather, colouring in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.