“I don’t consider myself to be an ‘activist artist’, but rather a sort of social commentator with no bound. The only ‘activity’ that I can imagine my work generating, would be thinking”.

Jessica Diamond’s art deals with relationships - money, media, sex and power. She is a “rebel with a cause”. Her expansive and bitchy wall paintings invade male territory. Female art does not need to be elegant, feminine or especially chic - but can just as well concentrate on dirtying the white cube. Persistent, explosive, raw and at the same time committed. A conscious strategy that is directed against the media’s way of mistreating all important subjects. “Hey, if you’re butt’s too big don’t blame me” is a piercing comment on the American singer Cher. Her surgically altered body - mass media icon - is a defensive attack on the public. Diamond paints a faceless woman in a minimal, slimming dress who, without closer reflection accepts and strengthens her roll as object - money, money, money. Cher is not bothered about the influence she has on other women. Jessica Diamond has sometimes been accused of lacking self-irony - Who needs it!