Jessie Boylan

Born 1986 in Sydney, Australia.

Jessie is a photomedia artist based in Melbourne, Australia. She is currently doing her MFA in Photomedia at Monash University.

Jessie’s work looks at contemporary Australian cultural identity through personal interpretations of British-Australian colonial legacies. She focuses the ongoing impacts of mineral exploitation, displacement, conflict, trauma and violence; and is currently attempting to make work about the ongoing legacy of the nuclear age in Australia.

She has exhibited in several solo and group shows in Australia and internationally. Jessie was a finalist in the Spirit of Youth Awards, 2009, the Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, 2007 & 2009, the Head On Alternative Portrait Awards, 2009 & 2010, and the Friends of the Earth International Photography Competition, 2009.

Jessie also produces a weekly half hour radio segment for 3CR 855am called ‘The Radioactive Show‘ – which covers nuclear issues in Australia and Internationally. Jessie is a member of the Atomic Photographers Guild which is made up of 26 members world-wide, who aim to render visible all aspects of the nuclear age. Jessie does multimedia work for the Mineral Policy Institute, who investigate the social and environmental impacts of mining in Australia and the Pacific. Jessie is currently represented by Obscura Photos.