b. 1987 Jessica is an artist living and working in Naarm | Melbourne. Her expanded photo-media practice identifies the photographic image as a slippery site and a leaky surface through which information flows, exploring its use as an apparatus for constructing and inscribing desires. Focusing on consumer culture, Jessica explores notions of material and immaterial, real and ideal to consider an experience of images and the demand for illusory ideals.
EXHIBITION HISTORY
2018 Don't look for too long lest you see the gloss, Kuiper Projects, Brisbane, Australia.
2018 How’s it going in there?, Bus Projects, Melbourne, Australia.
2017 All These Damn Reflections, St Heliers Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2016 The Finest of Domestic Animals II, Blindside, Melbourne, Australia
2015 The Finest of Domestic Animals I, First Site Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITION HISTORY
2024 Built Photography, Museum of Australian Photography (MAPh), Melbourne, Australia
2023 Torsion, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Australia
2022 Surface Value, The Wandering Room, Melbourne, Australia
2021 The VCA Graduate Exhibition
2019 Truth & Paradise, C3 Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2017 The distance between things, Tinning Street, Melbourne, Australia
2016 A Billion Bucks, The Honeymoon Suite Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2016 Interstice, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2016 Contemplation, NKN Collins Street Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2016 RMIT Foundation School of Art Honours Endowment Travelling Scholarships exhibition, RMIT School of Art Gallery,
Melbourne, Australia
2015 The Door in the Wall, Blindside, Melbourne, Australia
2015 RMIT (Honours) Graduate Exhibition
2015 Lightscape Project, RMIT School of Art Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
2014 RMIT (Bachelor) Graduate Exhibition
2014 NotFair Art fair, Melbourne, Australia
AWARDS
2021 Fiona Myer Whitestory Residency & Scholarship
2016 RMIT School of Art Honours Travelling Scholarship
2016 Abbotsford Convent Studio Start Up Scholarship
2014 RMIT Open Bite Student Association Award
EDUCATION
2021 Master of Fine Art (Research) The VCA, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Australia
2015 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Melbourne Australia
2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts (Print Imaging Practice) Royal Melbourne Institute Of Technology, Melbourne Australia
2008 Certificate in professional photography, Brisbane College of Photography and Art, Australia