Jenny Southam lives in Exeter and works from a studio above the Art Gallery Spacex and also from a studio at home. She works in the medium of terracotta specializing in individual hand-built figurative sculptures.

The works are celebratory, though in a quiet and contemplative way, the oxides and the slips decorating the sculptures used in an intuitive manner to echo the works emotional rhythm. She returns to rework her subjects over and over again, although each piece has its own striking individual character. The exploration of scale is an important part of Jenny's practice; some sculptures are only a few inches high whilst others are imposing figures two feet tall.