| Jesse Jones is an emerging artist and a member of the Brisbane Outsider Artists studio. He works primarily in acrylic, ink, and watercolour. His influences include post-impressionist and surrealist painters and contemporary illustrators. Jesse lives with bipolar disorder as well as chronic physical illnesses. Despite having prosopagnosia (face-blindness), he enjoys creating pop art–style portraits and expressing himself through self-portraiture. His work often aims to challenge ideas about gender and self as well as portray experiences of physical and mental illness. Jesse divides his time between home and various hospitals. He began painting as creative therapy during an inpatient psychiatric admission. |
