Leigh Jerome
Silencing is ubiquitous; there are spaces in between where a thousand contradictory dichotomies must be negotiated every day.
We’re pressured by hyper-sexualized narratives; then evaluated for purity, ever in danger of becoming a slut. We’re taught fairytale femininity, then face a lifetime of gaslighting and control.
We’re held to an unachievable standard of beauty, then devalued for every flaw, pound, and passing year.
We are called emotional and unstable — yet, we must fight — against domestic violence and sexual assault, for equal wages and power — even for our most basic right — to choose what happens within our own bodies.
We live, then we die. There’s a ripple, then it’s gone. Leigh Jerome is consumed by the space between mortality and the infinite, knowing there is more to this world than we will ever know and far less than will ever suffice. She is an artist and a scholar and holds a doctorate in clinical psychology with expertise in pathology, psychophysiology, empathy, women’s issues and collaboration. Jerome has worked professionally as an artist for over two decades constructing additive, mixed media compositions and immersive installations within contextual narratives. Metal is her primary medium but she incorporates clay, textiles, found objects, wood, glass, light, sound, fragments, paint, bone & patina. In 2019 Jerome founded a new gallery, Relational Space, for artists and scientists to collaborate and co-curate immersive installations with evidence-based narratives. The gallery’s mission is to build a more just and sustainable world inspired through art and informed by truth
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