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Jessica Ashman

‘It Feels Like Going Back Home’ and ‘With Just A Little Effort, Anything Is Possible’ (2026)
‘All Power Emanates From The Land’ (2025 - Ongoing)
‘Chimera Island’ (2025)
‘Those that do not smile will kill me’ (2025)
‘when you rip the earth from the land, you also rip the earth from the people’ (2024)
‘Whose Land Is This?’ (2023)
‘Heterotopic’ (2023)
‘Utopia Portals’ (2022)
‘The Onyx Shroud’ (2022)
‘DAWTA’ (Single Channel, 2021)
‘DAWTA’ - AV performance and EP Release (2021/22)
‘Daughter’ at Supernormal (2019)
‘Hold Tight’ (2018)
 ‘I Don’t Protest, I Just Dance In My Shadow’ (2017)




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All Power Emanates From The Land


(2025 - ongoing)




All Power Emanates From The Land is a new live audiovisual performance expanding on the soundscape made for Jessica Ashman’s exhibition ‘Those That Do Not Smile Will Kill Me’, at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG) - the result of Ashman’s research within the biology and botany collections of the museum.

Through doom metal, punk, folk song, field recordings, sound design and animation, the trio of Jessica Ashman, musician Auclair and artist/musician Richard Phoenix perform a visceral energetic song cycle dedicated to the different plants central to the lives of enslaved African Jamaicans and offers an imagining otherwise to the trauma and violence of the botanical colonialism within the archives.



First performed at BMAG itself to an intimate audience, the piece was then perfrmed at the 2025 addition of Supernormal Festival and then on to Cafe Oto in November 2025.

The soundscape which was created for BMAG was released as an EP in November 2025, entitled, Triptych, avaliable to buy now.


Below: Cafe Oto performance of All Power Emanates From The Land, Nov 30th 2025. Photos and video by Richard Mukuze




Photos of All Power Emanates From The Land - Supernormal 2025. Photos by Sylwia Jarzynka


APETFL - Bristol Museum and Art Gallery performance, May 2025. Photos from Jessica Ashman and Grant Davies