About​

Jessica Waters Gordon (b. 1981) lives and works in Wee Waa, NSW, Australia. She is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in painting and video. Gordon's practice centres on reinterpretation and recontextualisation, drawing upon art history, portraiture and contemporary culture to examine ideas of identity, power and performance. Inspired by traditions ranging from Renaissance portraiture to Cubism, she transforms familiar visual languages through geometry, vibrant colour, humour and unexpected juxtapositions. Her paintings explore the ways individuals construct and present themselves through clothing, gesture and appearance, suggesting that identity is layered, fluid and continually evolving. Through both painting and video, Gordon challenges established conventions by placing familiar imagery and cultural rituals into new contexts, encouraging audiences to reconsider assumptions surrounding authority, value, authenticity and the roles we perform in everyday life.