Bio
Jenny camp (b. 1994, Cheltenham) is an artist living and working in London. They have a BA in Product and Furniture Design and are currently a studio holder at Conditions studio programme in Croydon. Outside of their own practice they freelance as a propmaker, fabricator, and technician.
Statement
My practice is sculptural, but strays into writing, drawing, and digital media.
I have a BA in design and work as a fabricator alongside my studio practice. I use my skill and familiarity with materials within my work, but in a way that contrasts heavily to the end-product focus of fabrication.
My practice is about letting the material lead the way, using and often inventing processes that allow me to relinquish control to the material, acting as a conduit for what it wants to become. I have faith that the material knows what it’s doing.
The objects I create are my children, inadvertently inheriting traits from me, beings with personalities and inner lives - I worry they get bored.
In my solo show, Art By The KG, I set up a sculpture butcher shop where I cut up, weighed, priced, and sold a large coiled paper mache sculpture that I made previously but could no longer practically store.
I am not always the best parent.
I use my practice to process the nature of being human and an artist in a digitally and economically focused world that doesn’t seem to see people, empathy, or compassion as a priority.
Education
Conditions Studio Programme
BA Product and Furniture Design, Kingston School of Art
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Central Saint Martins
Exhibitions
2023 | Conditions 2022-23 Exhibition - Conditions
2023 | Art by the kg - Conditions Studios Project Space
2023 | 3D Women: Works That Never Came To Life - Art Hub Studios
2023 | My Body In My Hands - John St Gallery
2022 | Conditions 2021-22 Exhibition - Conditions
2022 | They/Them/Their: Naturally Not Binary - IMT Gallery
2022 | Loose Void Fill - Conditions
2019 | Out of Hours III - The Stanley Picker Gallery
2018 | London Design Festival, Fresh Produce - Spitalfields Market
2018 | New Designers - Business Design Centre
2018 | Kingston School of Art Degree Show - Kingston School of Art