Jessie Growden is an artist and writer based in the Scottish Borders. She grew up between a garden centre in England and a forest in Scotland, and would like to be back in the forest more often than not. She studied design for textiles at Heriot-Watt University, and in her ‘day-job’, she works with a firm of Architects and Surveyors. Her work considers things including but not limited to nature, landscape, collections, neurodivergence, songs, and bodily autonomy.  She mostly works with video, drawing, photography and words. She likes fluffy animals, raunchy fantasy novels, drinking tea, celebrating birthdays, being paid for her work, cycling, knitting, spreadsheets that use conditional formatting, comfortable shoes, long walks in the woods, and typing lists of things.