From Florence to Pop - Exhibition launch at the Yellow Book, Brighton

In early 2022 I took a six week workshop at one of the great art academies in Florence. This was a pivotal moment in the development of my painting process. After coming home and setting up my studio, I experimented mixing atelier style painting with colour, texture and pop/graphic shapes that I had grown up with.

In my explorations I couldn't help but notice the differences in the world of the old masters and our own. We are surrounded by so many objects, produced at a scale that would never have been conceivable to those in the past. Gone are the brass pots and ceramic bowls, replaced by single use packaging that have the potential to outlive us. By juxtaposing traditional figurative painting against these ‘pop’ objects, I hope to show a more accurate window into the world as it is for us today.

This show is my journey into developing my artistic voice and as a figurative painter, what it means to portray our colourful, product-filled reality.

Please join me at the launch of my first solo exhibition at The Yellow Book Bar in collaboration with Sweet Venues Brighton. The exhibition will start on Sunday 12 May through to Friday 7 June 2024.

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Brighton-based Australian artist Jessica Sheehan creates figurative painting in oils, clashing traditional figurative art against pop art, graphic shapes and colour. Having worked both in environmental science and in big data projects, she is fascinated by the dichotomy of the natural world versus the mass produced and man-made.

Jessica has participated in group exhibitions in Australia, Greece and in the UK. She was shortlisted for the Wales Contemporary in 2022 and longlisted for the Women in Art Prize in 2023.

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