Jessica Gorman is a performance and digital artist who looks at ideas of communication within a relationship. Gorman was born in West Lothian, Scotland, on the 2nd of December 2004. She is currently studying the HNC Art Portfolio Production course at West Lothian College, Scotland. Her work explores ideas of how communication in a relationship can change or be affected by long distance. Gorman has most recently been developing works which explore use of technology such as phones in relation to communication, phone calls and texts are the most common method of communication from a long distance. Gorman will be moving from her home in West Lothian, Scotland to Aberdeen, Scotland in September which has been an influence in her explorations of communication in a long-distance relationship as this will become a big part of her everyday life soon.  

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Gorman has explored public artworks in the form of projecting onto bus stops, her series of work “call me” consists of digital videos which she has projected onto bus stops and cars in West Lothian, Scotland. Another work Gorman has developed is “the bloody pear of anguish” which is a performative video piece which features Gorman trying to speak into a pear with a bloody mouth, she was influenced by the medieval torture device “the pear of anguish” which was traditionally used to break an individual’s jaw therefore leaving them unable to speak.  

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Jessica Gorman has been influenced by several artists, key artists who she has related to are Christine Sun Kim, Sterlarc, Jenny Holzer, Bill Viola, Katie Paterson, Ai Wei Wei and Yoko Ono.  

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Jessica Gorman is currently completing her HNC Art Portfolio Production course at West Lothian College and she has received an unconditional offer for first year studying BA (Hons) Contemporary Art Practice at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, which she will be starting in September 2023.