Jet Guthrie - Artist and Storyteller
Mixed-media and performance art have formed the axis of Jet’s work since graduating from an art course in Southampton University in 1993. Her focus is on fairy tales, and particularly with notions of liminality within them.
Jet’s work has included physical interventions interrogating folklore in places and ways that are symbolic, for instance with a tissue-paper noose from a tree in a graveyard. Such work has proved somewhat controversial. In 2014 she was criticised for an audio piece about Faerie Folk when the voices turned out not to be those of children, but her own voice changed by electronic processing.
With the rise of the Weird Albion movement, Jet’s work has found favour with an international audience through pieces presented online. There’s talk of a collaborative EP with some of the names in the scene, perhaps already to be found under one of Jet’s pseudonyms.
Jet’s work has included physical interventions interrogating folklore in places and ways that are symbolic, for instance with a tissue-paper noose from a tree in a graveyard. Such work has proved somewhat controversial. In 2014 she was criticised for an audio piece about Faerie Folk when the voices turned out not to be those of children, but her own voice changed by electronic processing.
With the rise of the Weird Albion movement, Jet’s work has found favour with an international audience through pieces presented online. There’s talk of a collaborative EP with some of the names in the scene, perhaps already to be found under one of Jet’s pseudonyms.