Jess Scott is an artist and filmmaker whose work is centred around the audience and rooted in the storytelling tradition. Experimenting with photography and film, Scott explores how we record and are recorded and how we view and are viewed, ideas that are integral to her practice. The artist’s work is often autobiographical, allowing her to observe her own place in the world whilst sharing personal experiences to create connections with her audience.
“I think that’s where I live, just under and behind my eyes” John Berger, A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor
Inspired by John Berger’s A Fortunate Man, Scott explores where they exist in their own body and the intersection of identity, memory, and place. The show reflects on the artist’s experiences with their grandmother as she develops vascular dementia. Recently, their conversations have become shorter and places and timelines more muddled, almost as though her life has been turned on its end and is being viewed all at once. Scott also examines objects found in her family home when it emptied and returned to the council after 80 years.
Other aspects of the work explore the artist’s experience with neurodivergence and struggles with memory, taking inspiration from childhood memory games. While items and places from Scott’s past have been lost, others have been found and re-contextualised. Scott notes the destructive process of leaving a place, mirroring the process undertaken when creating a new place.
KARST x KIND is a long-standing collaboration with Studio KIND in Barnstaple, encouraging artistic collaboration across North Devon and Plymouth. I Think This is Where I Live
is the fourth solo show brought to Studio KIND by a KARST studioholder before going on to show at KARST. Previous KIND x KARST solo exhibitions include: Katy Richardson’s A Cake of Painted Tin (2022), Anna Boland’s SPY-nul (2025) and Tom Milnes’s SCANITAS (2026).
I Think This is Where I Live will be on view on 11 & 12 September (11am – 5pm). Join us on Friday 11 September for an in conversation with Jess Scott (5pm), followed by the opening event (6 – 8pm).
