Jade Montserrat is an artist who works through performance, drawing, painting, film, installation, sculpture, print and text. Montserrat was the recipient of the Stuart Hall Foundation Scholarship for her PhD research, which focused on the development of her practice from her black diasporic perspective in the North of England. She has exhibited, published and lectured widely; recent projects include the exhibition of the Cage, Clay, Peat trilogy alongside an exhibition of Gainsborough drawings at York Art Gallery. Montserrat lives and works in Whitby, Yorkshire.