Jess Flood-Paddock


Jessie Flood-Paddock is a British sculptor living and working in London.
Flood-Paddock studied at Royal College of Art, Slade School of Fine Art, London and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago.
Flood-Paddock first came to wider attention in 2010 because of her exhibition at the Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, centred on a sculpture of a giant lobster. Her work often is monumental in scale, commenting on our consumer society.
In June 2011, Flood-Paddock had a solo exhibition at the Carl Freedman Gallery of new sculpture called Fantastic Voyage. and again in 2014 for a solo show called 'Nude' which was reviewed by Frieze Magazine. Flood-Paddock is currently represented by Carl Freedman Gallery.
From in 2017, The Tetley museum in Leeds hosted a large exhibition 'Refinding' bringing together new and recent works by Flood-Paddock, with the Oak Tree series of sculptures, drawings and prints by the celebrated 20th century sculptor, the late Kenneth Armitage. Flood-Paddock was awarded the Kenneth Armitage Fellowship, which enabled her to live and work in Armitage's studio for two years. During her residency, Flood-Paddock became interested in Armitage's work on oak trees produced between 1975 and 1986.
In 2012, Flood-Paddock collaborated on an artwork with British fashion designer Jonathan Saunders for 'Britain Creates', which concluded with an exhibition at the V&A.
Flood-Paddock was named as 'Artist of the week' by the Guardian Media Group's theguardian.com website in July 2011.