Jess Gough
London, UK
Summer 2026 * Photography
Artist Statement
“A world accumulates, image by image. This is a place of strange, sweet light, where fog bewilders, caves beckon and smoke curls out of craters. Landscape is not what it seems. A certain liquidity pervades. Viewpoints tilt. Glaciers slurp. Pathways gleam.
Drawn from eight years of work, Jess Gough’s photographs describe a world in transition, where matter is unsettled and everything slips between states: clotted shorelines, pearly ridges and rocks that appear gelatinous. Curious openings appear in earth and metal, where natural and human-made forms echo one another in a shared vocabulary.
In Still Formation, darkroom handprints sit alongside photopolymer etchings and their iridescent metal printing plates - part image, part relic - each a sustained study of materiality, following surfaces until the familiar tips into the unknown.”
– Exhibition text by Izabella Scott
Still Formation is an ongoing body of work and was presented as a solo show at 10 14 Gallery, London (June–September 2026).
The artist in the studio.
Works
Installation Views
Still Formation, 10-14 Gallery, London
Still Formation, 10-14 Gallery, London. C-type print, 30 x 24 cm
Still Formation, 10-14 Gallery, London. Photopolymer etching, 28 x 23.5 cm
Still Formation, 10-14 Gallery, London. C-type print, 51 x 42 cm
Still Formation, 10-14 Gallery, London. Photopolymer etching, 28 x 23.5 cm; Triptych of photopolymer metal printing plates
Still Formation, 10-14 Gallery, London. C-type print, 100 x 70 cm
© Jess Gough
About the Artist
Jess Gough is a photographic artist based in London. Her practice is grounded in a close observation of landscape and the human traces it absorbs, photographing both natural and built environments with an intimacy that blurs the distinction between the vast and the microscopic. Using analogue processes and printmaking, her work is marked by a material curiosity and experimentation. She has self-published several bodies of work and has undertaken commissions for publications including Atmos, Document Journal and FT Weekend Magazine.
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