Artist Talk: Jess Zamora-Turner
TULCA is pleased to present the Artist Talks Series as part of the 2025 programme, Strange lands still bear common ground, curated by Beulah Ezeugo. Continuing its ongoing partnership with the ATU School of Design and Creative Arts, TULCA will host four talks throughout October and November 2025.
The series invites audiences to engage directly with artists and the curator, offering insights into their practices and the ideas shaping this year’s festival. All talks take place at ATU Wellpark Road, Galway. Admission is free and open to the public.
Jess Zamora-Turner is a British-Chilean visual artist and grower based in Berlin. Jess's practice can best be described as patchworking—making materials and histories belong together in ways they weren't meant to. Their emotional and spiritual remaking, unfolds slowly, either through her own hands or by allowing the elements—rain, mud, sunlight—to colour and shape the materials. As the textiles, threads, leaves, flowers and seeds come together to form her sculptures they form alternative sacred landscapes that challenge our political and environmental realities.
Jess frequently collaborates with poets, musicians, cooks, dancers, performers, and filmmakers to activate her works in collective rituals and events. Her practice expands on the tradition of Andean abstraction and experimental dyeing with plants that are foraged or specially grown. Jess is currently in her sixth year seasonally tending a garden on the Polish-German border, where she grows a diverse selection of heirloom plants as well as stewarding and saving at risk seed varieties.
Jess has exhibited at Shahin Zarinbal and Galerie Molitor in Berlin and at Hotel Warszawa Art Fair in Warsaw, Poland. Her collaboration with musicians and dancers, a public performance Zaplatanie was staged in Hasenheide Park in Berlin in 2022. She often leads workshops or communal events, such as herbal smudging workshops at Floating University in Berlin or Public Works Group in London.
ATU Galway City
Wellpark Road
Galway H91 DY9Y
Access
Wheelchair accessible
Accessible toilets
Accessible parking
Opening Times
18 November 2025
2pm - 3.30pm
Getting There
Bus: Wellpark Road stop
Free parking
TULCA Festival of Visual Arts
Strange lands still bear common ground
Curated by Beulah Ezeugo
7-23 November 2025
Galway, Ireland