Jess Bull Anderson (Artist In Residence) is a London-based artist and musician committed to creating meaningful work which inspires personal growth and deepens one’s appreciation to their self and the surrounding world. 

Next September she will study her masters in tenor trombone and sackbut at the Royal College of Music with Rupert Whitehead, Byron Fulcher, and Sue Addison, alongside Alexander Technique teacher training at LCATT. She recently completed her undergraduate degree at the RCM and was awarded the Richard Edwards Memorial Prize for the most versatile brass musician. Previously she was a scholar of the Royal Academy of Music (DipHE) and studied at Chetham’s School of Music, Manchester.

Her artwork and poetry has always been recognised alongside her musicianship, with projects over the last few years including co-devising the inclusive SISTERKIND event at Vortex Jazz Club, live painting with MOSAIC ensemble, designing fabric for Joel & Sons (which holds a Royal Warrant from HRH Queen Elizabeth II), performance of her painting NOTHING IS PERMANENT at Southbank’s Elizabeth Hall, and collaborations with composers through writing text (most recently with Thomas Shorthouse for serpentine.iii ensemble) and developing animations (Illayda Oguz for magpie duo). 

She is a founding member of the Royal Sackbut Collective, emerging artists for Brighton Early Music Festival (2025/26) and supported by the Continuo Foundation, Robert Anderson Trust, and British Trombone Society, and she was sponsored by Sir Rodger Vickers in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. She has a wide array of performing experience across genres, including with Billy Bragg, Martin Carthy, Lisa Simone, Hermeto Pascoal, Steve Beresford, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, She’s Got Brass, CNSMSP Ensemble Next, and Vache Baroque.