Jasmine Coe

Jasmine Coe is a Wiradjuri-British artist who studied Fine Art in England graduating in 2014 with her work exploring Portraiture. In late 2016, she travelled to Australia for the first time to connect to her Aboriginal heritage and to meet her Father Paul Coe after 20 years apart. Having struggled with race and self-identity growing up, her work now focuses on harmonising internal conflicts that arise from having two lines of heritage which together hold a traumatic history. In an attempt to heal self, painting becomes a restorative process where by the understanding of self-identity is given space to develop, while at the same time the work continues to celebrate the beauty of the natural world.