About.

Jessica Ibbett is a self-taught artist from Sydney’s Inner West. With a background in both interior architecture and graphic design, her art practice is a natural extension of her desire to explore form, colour and texture. In 2019 Jessica was a finalist in the Urban EDGE Contemporary Art Prize and painted for the Share The Dignity group show by Amber Cresswell Bell. In 2018 she took part in the This Is Home group exhibition curated by Natalie Walton at Precinct 75, St Peters. In 2017 Jessica was a finalist in both the Little Things Art Prize and the Greenway Art Prize, and was also included in the MPN Online Charity Exhibition by Amber Creswell Bell. Working mainly with acrylic and watercolour, Jessica aims to explore notions of home, daily rituals and moments of pause, by which she processes and responds to memories and the minutiae of daily life through painting. More recently, Jessica has been painting works on paper using quick intuitive strokes and muted tones as a visceral response to the stresses of the COVID-19 pandemic, hoping to seek painterly states of flow.

Awards & Prizes.

BAM (Byron Arts Magazine) Art Prize - Semi Finalist 2020

Urban EDGE Contemporary Art Prize - Finalist 2019

Greenway Art Prize - Finalist 2017

Little Things Art Prize - Finalist 2017