Jessica Frances

Jessica Frances is a contemporary visual artist and photographer whose practice is rooted in fine art and documentary traditions. Working predominantly with 35mm film, her work explores themes of impermanence, and the quiet drama of the everyday. Raised on the Kent coast, her creative lens was shaped by the unpredictability of the sea, its calm and chaos, its vastness and claustrophobia, which continues to inform the emotional texture of her work.

Jessica’s approach is tactile and process-driven, often favouring the limitations and accidents of analogue over the precision of digital. She frequently works in the darkroom, embracing the alchemical nature of film development as both an act of creation and experimentation. While her primary focus lies in film photography, she occasionally works digitally, particularly in projects that require archival clarity.

A graduate of Liverpool John Moores University (BA Fine Art, 2016), Jessica spent the years following her degree immersed in the restoration and preservation of vintage film cameras, developing a deep respect for the mechanical intimacy between artist and tool. Recently, she has returned to producing new work, with current projects centering on grassroots spaces, subcultures, and the intersections between identity, nostalgia, and collective memory.

Her work is as much about observation as it is about storytelling, capturing fleeting gestures, overlooked rituals, and the quiet poetry in the mundane.