ARTIST PROFILE

Jody Ess is an unconventional and self taught artist, with a multi-faceted creative path and a fondness for the alternative.
Growing up regionally in the mining town of Kalgoorlie, and living a largely transient lifestyle, Jody’s approach to art and life alike is resourceful, improvisational, hands-on and direct. 

Jody’s paintings are inspired by crude realism, abstract expressionism, urban culture and dark art. Her pieces feature figures that emanate a somewhat unsettling but magnetic energy; they are statements of outspoken and honest realities, and larger-than-life personalities.

They captivate the spaces they occupy, and invite you in to celebrate the unusual, the unexpected, the weird and the different. Her works involve heavy use of bold acrylics along with aerosols, inks, pastels and repurposed materials.

You will currently find Jody working in her private Fremantle Art Studio where you can view her available paintings via appointment, or at numerous festivals and venues around WA painting things on random walls and fencing panels.

PHOTO Deric M Photography

COMING UP

BLAZING SWAN 2024
ART INSTALLATION – Kulin WA
March 27th – April 2nd 2024

STRANGE FESTIVAL 2024 
ART INSTALLATION – Perth WA
June 14th – June 23rd 2024

PAST GIGS

INTELLIGENT DEVIANT EXHIBITION  |  2024
OUT OF THE WOODS FESTIVAL  |  2023
BLOSSOM FESTIVAL  |  2023 
GIG FOR GWEN  |  2023
STRANGE FESTIVAL  |  2022  |  2023

GO AND SEE

MURAL | TWO DOGS LAUGHING
Two Dogs Laughing Cafe
199 South St, Beaconsfield WA

MURAL | THE PORTOFINO
(View from Ghetto Blaster Cafe)
Cnr Nairn St & Pakenham St, Fremantle WA

VISIT

JODY ESS ART STUDIO
Located in Fremantle WA
Open by Appointment – Holler at me here