Jessica Tipper
Fine Art MA
Arts University Bournemouth
Specialisms: Digital Arts / Art Education / Fine Art
Location: Bournemouth, United Kingdom
Jessica Tipper
First Name: Jessica
Last Name: Tipper
Specialisms: Digital Arts / Art Education / Fine Art
Sectors:
My Location: Bournemouth, United Kingdom
University / College: Arts University Bournemouth
Course / Program Title: Fine Art MA
About
Jessica Tipper’s work uses the language of occult spirituality within the transcendental digital realm to reimagine queer narratives and
being. With a multisensory approach to presenting the work, her digital beings and physical objects invite the audience to re-consider the traditional relationship between body and mind and disrupt ideas around gender and sex.
Tipper references her practice as a technopagan witch, early 2000’s women computer graphic artists and game spaces. A time where games and the internet offered boundaryless possibilities, avatars separated from a binary patriarchal reality and a new plane of existence for new myth and magic. The figures that immerge in the work– wombless goddesses and cyborgs, exist in this space and ask the viewer why they have an assigned gender, why they accept or revere their sexual organs and what would happen if this was all scattered into a new space with no binaries?
In the latest work, Tipper brings to life a pregnant Green Man, and a mournful angel baby and seeks to reinvent ideas around the Divine Masculine and the Divine Feminine, an ancient phenomenon that is still steeped into contemporary esoteric practices that should be subverted and challenged.
'Virle Divine & Angel Baby' is the latest digital fine art installation by Jessica Tipper. Drawing from Tipper's upbringing as a neo-Pagan and her queer identity, the work challenges the divine feminine and divine masculine and seeks to reclaim the sacred for queer technopagan purposes. The pregnant greenman figure and mournful baby communicate to the audience, asking them to reconsider their embodied reality and beckons the viewer into a mystical digital space where anything is possible and binaries can be shattered. The animations are accompanied by 3D printed sculptures, that communicate to the future - plastics last forever, what will future gleam from these organs?
Competitions
Global Creative Graduate Showcase 2024
Ascention is a series of digital images and animations as part of the exhibition, 'Destination Aether' (2024).