Tessa Norton is a writer and artist, working across text, typography, digital and film.
She is co-editor, with Bob Stanley, of the book Excavate: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall (Faber & Faber, 2021). She has written about arts and culture for various publications including The Wire, Corridor 8, Tribune and Burlington Contemporary. She has led several workshops, reading groups and public programme events, and was a visiting tutor on the Fine Art BA at Liverpool John Moores University in 2022-23.
Her visual art spans text, film and installation. Her artists’ publication The Fields Here Are Full of Ghosts was published by Wysing Polyphonic in 2019. She was FACT x Jerwood Fellow in 2020-21, and her work has appeared in exhibitions and events at FACT, Rough Trade, Wysing Arts Centre, The Tetley, Liverpool Biennial, Flat Time House, and more.
She has worked on design and creative projects for a wide range of music and arts organisations, and has just set up an artist-led content and communications studio called Overnight Sensation.
West Riding Arts Research 