About

Jessie Lee Nash (b. 1994, Cairns, Australia, lives in Hastings, UK) has been artist-in-residence at ARTS&REC for the months of October and November, 2023.

Nash was invited to come to Stamford after being hand-picked as one of ten artists to partake in TEAR, the Tracey Emin Artist Residency in Margate, UK. She arrived with a project idea based on the history of self-portraiture by female artists.

Working in her preferred palette of crimson, pink, and shades of muted reds, Nash created more than sixteen new paintings during her residency. While some reference the canon of female self …