About
No-one knows what your life or life itself should be because it is in the process of being created. Life moves according to a growing consciousness of life and is completely unpredictable.
- Agnes Martin
Jessie is a Melbourne-based gestural abstract artist who grew up between the beaches of Sydney’s east coast and the bushy mountains of Melbourne’s Dandenong ranges. Their connection to nature is a formative element in her work, reflecting a personal dialogue between environment, experience, interaction and moments of time.
Jessie engages sensorially and uses their body as a conduit for the art-making materials, exploring the relationship between self, experience and environment. Working in a mix of acrylic, inks and pastels, Jessie uses experimental methods to create marks that speak to instinctual bodily responses, in reaction or recollection of daily experiencing.
Jessie is also a professionally registered Creative Arts Therapist, who works in Community Mental Health and is informed by a passion for social justice. Jessie works with a range of people to engage, explore and express their experience through creative arts modalities; believing that there is an inherent connection between the creative arts, the process of making it and engaging with it and our sense of self, our wellbeing, our ways of connecting with others. Jessie also teaches at The MIECAT Institute, facilitating in the Masters program of arts therapy.
You can discover more of their therapeutic arts projects at Studio Common Ground