About

Jessye Wdowin-McGregor is a visual artist whose practice engages with place, nature, encounter, and transformation as points of departure, working across a variety of mediums. She often draws upon and reimagines landscape, exploring the blurring of boundaries between human, animal and environment. The artist’s body is regularly present in her work, sometimes through performance, and at other times in more subtle ways, such as the recurring touch of her hand to her surroundings or through the intricacy of handmade processes including embroidery and drawing. Her practice is shaped by the ways she moves between the bodily, the material and the more intangible. She is interested in slippages in perception, language and media, as well as everyday moments that might take on mythological resonances.

Jessye was born in the United Kingdom and currently lives and works in Naarm (Melbourne). She holds Bachelor and Master of Fine Arts degrees from the Victorian College of the Arts in Australia. Her work has been shown both locally and internationally. In addition to solo and curated group exhibitions, she has participated in artist residencies, been published online and in print, and screened her work at film festivals. Her work resides in both private and public collections. 

The artist acknowledges the Kulin Nations as the sovereign custodians of the land where she lives, works, and makes. She pays respects to their Elders, past and present, and to all First Nations people.