About

Jessye Wdowin-McGregor’s multidisciplinary practice draws on her experience of place and the relationships between humans, other species and our shared environment. She works with digital lens-based media including photography and video, as well as incorporating handmade processes such as collage, drawing and, more recently, sculpture. A connection to nature underpins much of her work, and she is interested in landscape as a reflection on how we coexist with other beings and forces. In her work she tries to tune in to plant and animal narratives, natural phenomena, cyclic rhythms and deep time histories, and at times imagines landscape as a setting for moments of magic realism (as projected by the artist). Her work is made directly within and by gathering material from the sites she encounters, as well as through reinterpreting or altering pre-existing imagery. In her explorations of place, Jessye also draws influence from mythological references, archival artefacts, the limits of vision and communicating hidden aspects of the psyche.  

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.