Jessie Growden started making films in 2014, and is a founding member of the Moving Image Makers Collective. Her videos explore place, landscape and personal experiences through a playful approach to recording images. Her work focusses on the detail, the sentimental and the throwaway, and the history and lives of objects and places.
Screenings and Exhibitions:
2021:
I am Tall Meepa
Moving Image Makers Collective – Conversations with a Forest, 17/9/21 – 18/9/21 Info here
I’ve Only Been Here Half My Life
Alchemy Film & Arts – The Teviot, The Flag & The Rich Rich Soil (date TBC late 2021) info here
2020:
Photograph
Alchemy Live 2020, 1/5/20 Info here
Lines in the Sand
The Stove Network, Dumfries, 14/2/20 Info here
Granny Duncan’s Tape Collection
The Stove Network, Dumfries, 14/2/20 Info here
2019:
Lines in the Sand
Experiments in Cinema 14.2, Albuquerque, USA 16/4/19
Granny Duncan’s Tape Collection
FilmFort: Treefort Music Fest, Boise, Idaho, USA, 23/3/19
Lines in the Sand
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, 5/5/19
Granny Duncan’s Tape Collection
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, 5/5/19
Lines in the Sand
DunsPlayFest, Duns, 9/5/19
Granny Duncan’s Tape Collection
DunsPlayFest, Duns, 9/5/19
Lines in the Sand
Borders Book Festival, Melrose, 14/6/19
Granny Duncan’s Tape Collection
Borders Book Festival, Melrose, 14/6/19
Scottish Borders Life Drawing Club Exhibition
Kelso Mens’ Shed, Kelso, 18/7/19 – 1/8/19
Lines in the Sand
A Cyborg’s Search for Meaning, Safehouse, London, 3/8/19 – 4/8/19
Lines in the Sand
NAUTILUS: BEEF Shed at Supernormal Festival 2019, Oxfordshire, 2-4/8/19
Granny Duncan’s Tape Collection
NAUTILUS: BEEF Shed at Supernormal Festival 2019, Oxfordshire, 2-4/8/19
Lines in the Sand
Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle, 4/10/19 Info here
Granny Duncan’s Tape Collection
Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle, 4/10/19 Info here
Sixty Three Plastic Bottles and One Aluminium Can
Cinemaforum, Warsaw, 7/11/19 Info here
Lines in the Sand
Pix Film Gallery, Toronto, 15/11/19 Info here
Granny Duncan’s Tape Collection
Pix Film Gallery, Toronto, 15/11/19 Info here
Lines in the Sand
Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam, 6/12/19 Info here
Granny Duncan’s Tape Collection
Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam, 6/12/19 Info here
Lines in the Sand
CCA, Glasgow, 7/12/19 Info here
Granny Duncan’s Tape Collection
CCA, Glasgow, 7/12/19 Info here
2018:
Circle #3
Winnipeg Undergruond Film Festival, 1/6/18
Sixty Three Plastic Bottles and One Aluminium Can
Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, 5/5/18
Rising and Falling
Peebles Outdoor Film Festival, 29/1/18
2017:
Another Forest
Yarrow, Ettrick and Selkirk Arts Festival, 14-17/9/17
River Installation
A MIMC collaborative work.
Yarrow, Ettrick and Selkirk Arts Festival, 14-17/9/17
Rising and Falling
River Ways Festival, Hawick 7/9/17
Work in Progress
Alchemy Film & Arts, Moving Image Makers Exhibition Programme, 31/8/17 – 2/9/17
Circle #3
Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, 2-6/3/17
Swings and Roundabouts
Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, 2-6/3/17
2016:
TFOD
Creative Coathanger Festival, 1/10/16
2015:
Back and Forth
Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival, 12/12/15
Forest
Forman Hall Film Night, Roberton, 20/11/15
Filmstrip
Beyond the Shutter – Yarrow, Ettrick and Selkirk Arts Festival, 12-20/9/15
Forest 2
Beyond the Shutter – Yarrow, Ettrick and Selkirk Arts Festival, 12-20/9/15
Back and Forth
Moving Image Makers Collective Screening, Hawick, 24/6/15
Forest
Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, 19/4/15
Residencies:
Alchemy Film & Arts Artist in Residence, 2020
Alchemy Film & Arts Moving Image Residencies 2017, Café Tissardmine, Morocco.
Bursaries, Grants and Prizes:
Hawick Callants Club Common Riding Essay Competition winner (Adult) 2020
Read the essay here.
South of Scotland Visual Artist & Craft Maker Awards, March 2019
SUPERLUX bursary, Screenwriting for Artists Workshop at Glasgow Film Festival, February 2017
Other Exhibitions:
2017:
Hedgehog Stories: Harestanes Countryside Centre Spring Exhibition 2017
2016:
Wild about Badgers: Harestanes Countryside Centre Spring Exhibition, Thurs 24 March – Sun 5 June 2016
2015:
Painting the Park: Rose Hughes and Friends, Sunday 1st March – Sun 3 May 2015
Other Commissions:
2011:
‘Colours of Chemistry’, St Andrew’s University, Fife
