Jessica John
My natural curiosity has manifested itself into an obsession with Cultural Heritage. Specifically, the cultural heritage of North Wales. Fortunately, my career over the last decade has allowed me to live and breathe this obsession and now I wish to share my expertise with projects, small and large, who wish to tell our distinct story of who we are and where we’ve been.
Fel siaradwr Cymraeg, rwy'n byw a gweithio yn fy iaith frodorol. Mae hyn yn fraint, ac yn gyfleus gan fod y rhan fwyaf o'n ffynonellau hanesyddol yn y Gymraeg, ac mae gan y rhan hon o Gymru niferoedd uchel o siaradwyr Cymraeg.
My Canvas
Eryri
Eryri National Park has over 800² miles of historically rich landscape. It reads as a palimpsest of thousands of years of human occupation. Each generation have consciously and unconsciously left their mark through tangible and intangible heritage, Humanity has always found a way to tell their story and it’s my job to not only listen but to share their stories. And who knows, we might learn a thing or two.
What I offer
Cultural Heritage Landscapes
- Community research projects on both tangible and intangible heritage.
- Interpretation in the landscape, using traditional interpretation and digital interpretation such as QR codes and VR tours.
- Bringing historians, artists, archaeologists, film makers and the community together to tell the whole story.
- Enriching the Historic Environment record for future generations.
- Responsibly archiving traditional and digital content.
Exhibitions and collections
- Collections evaluation and rationalisation.
- Audience led and audience centered exhibition design and content.
- Multi media approach to exhibition.
- Bilingual content.
- The magic of live interpretation - front of house training for museum and heritage site guides.
Sample Works - Landscape Heritage
Community research
Wool, weaving and webs; the history of the Dolgellau woollen industry.
School workshops, archeological surveys, deep mapping and more...
Year: 2022 - ongoing.
Lost farmsteads
Deep mapping project researching and creating content for ruined buildings across the Ardudwy landscape.
Community engagement, volunteer surveys, school workshops.
Year: 2020 - 2024
Place Names
Carneddau Landscape Partnership
Carneddau Voices Project; place names and oral history.
Recording and celebrating Welsh place names.
Year: 2020-2024
Sample Works - Museum and Heritage Sites
Yr Ysgwrn, The home of hedd wyn
The development of a nationally important site into an accredited museum and heritage site. Resulting in 11 heritage awards including a trip to Paris for an Europe Nostra.
Museum collections appraisal, cataloguing, archiving, accreditation, care and conservation of collection, interpretation design and development, event coordinating, marketing, community engagement, project management, welcome host training and all round tour guide (I can also now work a barista coffee machine!)
Year: 2015 - 2020
contact me
If you're developing a project and need a hand crafting a community-centered heritage masterpiece, or if you're knee-deep in a project and could use a guiding light in certain spots, don't be shy - give me a shout.
Or if you're keen to chat about delving into research or spinning tales through oral history projects, please get in touch for a general chit chat.
Phone
07787522659
jessicajohn@tylwyth.cymru
