About

Gabby Vautier and Jessica Hepburn, founders of Fertility Fest

Mission

Founded in 2016 by fertility patients and arts producers, Gabby Vautier and Jessica Hepburn, Fertility Fest is the world’s first arts festival dedicated to fertility, infertility, the science of making babies and modern families.

Read more about Jessica and Gabby.

The festival ran for three years (2016 – 2019) in the UK and internationally and had three big aims:

1

To improve understanding of the emotional journey

of people who struggle or go on a complex journey to conceive – because it can be hard and horrible and we want there to be better patient care and outcomes for everyone whatever their fertility story, however it ends.

2

To improve the level of public conversation

about infertility and reproductive science – what it can do, what it cannot do and how it’s affecting the way the human race is being made.

3

To improve fertility education

Young people need to learn more than how ‘not to get pregnant’, they deserve a more rounded and robust understanding of human fertility so they have the best chance of creating the families they want in the future – with or without children, with or without reproductive science.

2019
Festival Archive

Maxine Peake in Avalanche

2018
Festival Archive

21 Miles book by Jessica Hepburn

2016
Festival Archive

Production shot of The Quiet House by Gareth Farr

Artists
& Experts

Kat Francois headshot

Modern Families Fertility Education Project

Modern Families

Team
Fertility Fest

Modern Families

Team Fertility Fest

Staff and Steering Committee

Gabby Vautier

Gabby Vautier

Director

Jessica Hepburn

Jessica Hepburn

Director

Tracey Woolley

Tracey Woolley

Project Producer

Tian Glasgow

Tian Glasgow

Creative Producer

Alison Collantine

Alison Collantine

Designer

Alice King-Farlow

Alice King-Farlow

Steering Committee

Anya Sizer

Anya Sizer

Steering Committee

Professor Jacky Boivin

Professor Jacky Boivin

Steering Committee

Professor Joyce Harper

Professor Joyce Harper

Steering Committee

Professor Geeta Nargund

Professor Geeta Nargund

Steering Committee

Kate Brian

Kate Brian

Steering Committee

Kim Grant

Kim Grant

Steering Committee

Natalie Highwood

Natalie Highwood

Steering Committee

Tracey Sainsbury

Tracey Sainsbury

Steering Committee

Artists

Experts