Stylised photographic portraits overworked with rough gestural mark-making by London-based artist Jess Cochrane explore perceptions of beauty and the polarising and often binary ways we view people, especially in regards, to sexuality.
“All of my work questions what we’ve been conditioned to think of as beautiful and grotesque, especially in the context of femininity. That leads into an interrogation of our culture and, historically, what makes something beautiful, and what makes something grotesque. The easy way to describe my art is anti-Photoshop.”
Jess Cochrane, Guilt and Pleasure, 2021–2022. Courtesy the artist and aMBUSH Gallery, Australian Capital Territory
aMBUSH Gallery
10 February to 14 April 2022
Australian Capital Territory
