Jamie Crewe is a beautiful bronze figure with a polished cocotte's head who grew up in the Peak District and is now settled in Glasgow. They graduated from Sheffield Hallam University in 2009 with a BA in Contemporary Fine Art, and later from Glasgow School of Art in 2015 with a Master of Fine Art. They have presented several solo exhibitions: 'Solidarity & Love', Humber Street Gallery, Hull (2020); 'Love & Solidarity', Grand Union, Birmingham (2020); 'Pastoral Drama', Tramway, Glasgow (2018); 'Female Executioner', Gasworks, London (2017); and 'But what was most awful was a girl who was singing', Transmission, Glasgow (2016). Their work has also been presented as part of 'I, I, I, I, I, I, I Kathy Acker' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; as part of the 'KW Production Series' at Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin; as part of the Glasgow International 2018 Director’s Programme in the group show 'Cellular World' at GoMA, Glasgow; and as part of the 'Artists’ Moving Image Festival 2016' at Tramway, Glasgow.
In 2019 the artist was awarded the tenth Margaret Tait Award with the resulting commissioned work 'Ashley' premiering at Glasgow Film Festival in March 2020.