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I am an Artist/ Maker
I am the Crone
I am an Eco-Activist
I am a Friend
I am a Mother
I am Me and not You
I am watching You looking at Me
Jenni Dutton is a multidisciplinary artist/activist working with discarded, second-hand, and found materials to explore themes around time, memory, identity, and loss—particularly within the complexities of ageing and the mother-daughter relationship.
She uses both found and crafted objects as signifiers, projections, and talismans, with her work often centred on the human form and deeply rooted in personal experience.
Clothing, in particular, serves as a powerful metaphor for absence and loss.
“My work engages with personal doubts and anxieties, offering glimpses into the dreams and desires of childhood and adolescence. As adults, we attempt to rationalise these unresolved longings, yet they continue to surface through what we create. This tension—between past fantasies and present realities—becomes a driving force in my practice.”
Jenni lives and works in West Somerset, England, with a studio at East Quay, Watchet.
News
SEPT 2025 - JAN 2026
Jenni Dutton’s Blond Hair Dress is currently featured in the exhibition ‘Dress Dreams and Desire : Fashion and Psychoanalysis’ at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York
Projects
ECO ACTIVISM
DEMENTIA DARNINGS
MEMORY DRESS
CONCEPTUAL CLOTHING
ABSURD SEWN SELFIES
INSTALLATIONS
DOLLS
RIVER WASHFORD
