Jessie Flood-Paddock

Jessie Flood-Paddock (b. 1977, London, UK) lives and works in London. She studied at Royal College of Art, London (2003-5) and Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London (1996-2000). In recent years, she has enjoyed a growing national and international reputation thanks to her exuberant sculptural practice that engages with elements from popular culture including food, design and literature. Recent solo exhibitions include Tate Britain, London (2012) and the Hayward Gallery Project Space, London (2010).

 

Rooted in sculpture, Flood-Paddock’s work seeks to expose the emotional dimensions of inert objects and what they reveal about human interaction. With forays into processes such as photography, video, scenic painting and carbon fibre, her works are sometimes produced using humble materials such as plywood, plaster, paper and cloth. She often creates oversized but decidedly un-monumental versions of everyday objects, which can disturb the references that ground us in the everyday and rock our expectations of material reality.