Bio

Jefford’s multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, drawing, painting, writing and video, yet his open-ended approach often yields hybrid forms that elude categorisation. Working with recurring materials and repurposed everyday objects, his pieces frequently carry the uncanny familiarity of scaled-up miniatures or pseudo-functional props—objects that might belong to some alternate educational display or speculative world-building model.

Exhibitions

2025

Toy (solo)Galerie Noah Klink Berlin DE

Passengers Worse London, UK

competence and decency (solo) Galleri Opdahl Stavanger, NO

The Sleeping Procession Cass Sculpture Foundation Goodwood, UK

When Two or More Come Together SWG3 Studios Glasgow, UK

2023

The Living World of Animals (solo) Gianni Manhattan Vienna, AT

Amid The Alien Corn KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, DE

2022

Optimised Fables about a Good Life PLATO Ostrava, CZ

Sentiment, Sediment (solo) Galleri Opdahl Stavanger, NO

DES CHAMPS DE FRAISES POUR L’ÉTERNITÉ La Galerie, centre d'art contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec FR

Group show Rob Tufnell Venice, IT

2021

Severance Gianni Manhattan Vienna, AT

The Medieval and The Minimal Beckys Berlin, DE

Corps Mamoth London, UK

Natural Gas (solo) Liebaert Projects Kortrijk, BE

Frieze London (solo) Gianni Manhattan

2020

Invitation To Love Kunstverein Bremerhaven Bremerhaven, DE

This Margin Will Be Your Vantage Point In Situ Fabienne Leclerc Paris, FR

This Tragedy Fonda Leipzig, DE

2019

Lyon Biennale FR

Gubbinal Project Native Informant London, UK

Liste (solo) Gianni Manhattan Basel, CH

Out of eye Laure Genillard London, UK

2018

CITADEL Open Forum Berlin, DE

Procrustean Flatulence (solo) Gianni Manhattan Vienna, AT

Ties & Fries (two person show with Gina Fischli) Her London, UK

Doors of Paradise Union Pacific London, UK

V22 Young London V22 Silvertown Studios London, UK

Le Bel Été Noire Gallery Turin, IT

Mantel Copperfield Gallery London, UK

Unearthing Becky's London, UK

2017

Vehicular Reliquary House RA Schools Show London, UK

Romancing The Biscuit (solo) Lock Up International London, UK

Lived In Galleri Opdahl Opdahl, NO

RA Schools Degree Show Royal Academy Schools London, UK

Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On The Bedpost Overnight) J Hammond Projects London, UK

2016

Modest Villa Immense Versailles Kinman London,

A Rose Is Without a 'Why'. It Blooms Because It Blooms, curated by Sean Steadman, Carl Freedman London, UK

Bloomberg New Contemporaries The Bluecoat Liverpool, and ICA, UK

Suggest The Shape of the Wind Nam Project Milan, IT

Premiums Royal Academy of Arts London, UK

2015

Qwaypurlake Hauser & Wirth Somerset Bruton, UK

Chimp Cracks Nut With Rock (To What Extent Is It Asking a Question?), curated by Sean Steadman, The Kennington Residency London, UK

2014

Backteller (solo) Gowlett Peaks London, UK

This Inferior Mirage (solo) Cactus Liverpool, UK

Waking up a shape The Woodside Press Bristol, UK

Bending Light Home-Platform Bristol, UK

2013

Records of Garden Keeping (solo) Works|Projects Bristol, UK

Surface Area, curated by Lauren Christiansen Favourite Goods Los Angeles, US

Performance Fetish, curated by Its Our Playground SWG3 Glasgow, UK

Dumb Shadow Supercollider Blackpool, UK

Flatfile: A Demonstration of Possiblities Eastside Projects Birmingham, UK

2012

Enlighten us, but make it quick New Gallery London, UK

Exhibition Z-Shed Bristol, UK

2011

Soft Laminate (two person show with Orion Martin) Horton Gallery Berlin, DE

Berlin UDK Rundgang Universität der Künste Berlin Berlin, DE

Interesting Results (two person show with Jackson Bateman) 8 Week Gallery Bristol, UK

2010

Café Royal Books Pop-up Library PR1 Gallery Preston, UK

Rascals In Paradise Warehouse Weston Super Mare, UK

Super Salon Sale Bristol Diving School Bristol, UK

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