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Jessie Dipper MA

Jessie Dipper

Lecturer

Nottingham School of Art and Design

Role

Music Industry professional, specialising in songwriting, music performance and independent release/management strategy from an artist perspective, having worked as an artist, songwriter, touring musician as a vocalist/guitarist and producer. Lecturing in these specialisms as part of the academic staff team for Music Performance BA/FdA & Popular Music BA.

Career overview

Jessie Dipper is an accomplished independent artist whose career has spanned international touring, studio recording, and songwriting. Since her early career development in 2015, she has released three studio albums and several EPs, showcasing a distinctive voice and songwriting style that continues to evolve. Her more recent work, since gaining a Masters in Commercial Songwriting and Production, highlights her expanding role not only as a performer and songwriter but also as a producer, contributing to a growing catalogue of self-produced releases.

Following from her first commercial release of the ‘Sticky Floors’ album of 2022, Jessie toured the UK with her band supporting Scouting For Girls, which lead to the release of the ‘Sticky Floors – Live EP’ in 2023. ‘Hiraeth’ in 2024 was the next album to come out, a conceptual project, taking on the sounds of the world through experimental use of real-world sampling, sound manipulation and collaborative songwriting from an intercultural perspective within her folk-grunge stylings. The most current project follows a sonic pause, captivated by the acoustic sounds of her live ‘Nashville Vignettes’, a 5-track solo EP. ‘I’m A Mess’ is the most recent single, soon to be followed by ‘Oxygen’, emulating the grunge aspect of her ‘folk-grunge’ identity as an artist. ‘Oxygen’ expecting to be one of her most unfiltered and unrelenting songs yet.

Jessie has performed and collaborated across the globe, with notable engagements in Nashville, TN, and participation in International Songwriting Camps in Spain, Sweden, Norway, and Morocco, working on live briefs for labels and artist as well as involvement within writing for Eurovision. Her creative journey has also taken her to place such as Nigeria, the Czech Republic, Sri Lanka, Uganda, New York City, Texas, and Romania, reflecting a rich and diverse international presence.

Alongside her professional artistry, Jessie has embraced the realities of life as a working musician to gain a sustainable career, including roles in hospitality—experiences she sees as integral to the resilience and resourcefulness of creative professionals. Her exploration of both practice and academia led her to pursue a Master’s in Commercial Songwriting and Production with Tileyard Education, London, in partnership with NTU, graduating with High Distinction in Autumn 2024.

Research areas

My professional work currently revolves around the release of my latest project, to come to completion at the end of November 2025. This ‘I’m a Mess’ EP will be the collation of the last 3 singles, exploring avenues within unapologetic vulnerability, and the theme of life as a mess and this attitude within lament and ecclesiastical poetry.

Following my last album ‘Hiraeth’ 2024, this body of work was apart of my final research project as part of my Masters, with a specific focus towards ethnomusicology and the exploration of music through a commercial/folk lens, looking in on various cultures through collaboration and exploration. With a personal background living overseas, and having worked inter-culturally within my professional life through touring and event attending/speaking, I am highly interested in how culture and our belief systems are implied in art in the modern day, and how art (more specifically music) can be linked to that of another world experience that still feels familiar to the foreigner’s ear.

Having explored some of these areas on a Master’s level, my hope is to continue this work in developing the specifics around ethnomusicology and theology as it relates to commercial/popular music in the modern music industry with the desire to consider a PhD in some of these areas in the future.

External activity

Currently focussing on production and songwriting for my next project, due to be released late next year. With an aim to be being back on the festival circuit with my band over Summer 2026, in the build up to this release, following my latest ‘I’m a Mess’ EP.

Sponsors and collaborators

Some collaborators include Tileyard Music & education, SONY, BMG, Electric Pineapple, SongLab, X&Y records, Warner.

Press expertise

Happy to talk about being an industry professional in an academic world or the experience of going from student to lecturer (see here for article with TYE: tileyardeducation.co.uk/news/from-ma-student-to-music-lecturer.

Writer of blogs, happy to contribute in this way, (see recent article as an example: rabbitroommusic.substack.com/p/jessie-dipper-on-music-mess-and-sticky

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