Statement Profile GlogauAIR Project CV Summary

Statement

Jessica Ledwich is an Australian photographic and installation artist whose practice explores the intersections of consumer culture, eroticism, and contemporary ideals. Working with close-up imagery of food, nature, and the body, she creates visceral, hyperreal compositions that blur the boundary between the synthetic and the real. Through striking contrasts in colour and texture, Ledwich examines the dualities of beauty and the abject, desire and repulsion, seduction, and discomfort. Her work invites viewers to confront the contradictions embedded in modern visual culture and to engage with the complex, often uneasy terrain of bodily experience, consumption, and constructed desire.

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GlogauAIR Project

My project explores how capitalism shapes desire and value through images and how our consumerist ideals are heralded as an antidote to death. In a media-saturated world dominated by fake news, misinformation, and the ever-growing feeling we are living in a simulacrum, I am looking to explore what is real and what is synthetic. Exploring the role of photography as a seduction tool in the machine of desire, this project will incorporate found imagery, objects, food, and the body to interrogate our collective cultural ideals of value, beauty, and permanence in an era defined by excess, replication, and visual manipulation.

CV Summary

Education

2000 – 2002 Bachelor of Performing Arts, Monash University, Melbourne

2008 – 2010 Advanced Diploma of Photography, Photography Studies College, Melbourne

2013 – 2014 Master of Fine Art with distinction, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia

Selected Exhibitions Solo

2023 Spoils, Casa Lü, Mexico City

2022 Sticky Bits, Edge Galleries, Maldon

2021 Messy Beautiful, Edge Galleries, Maldon

2019 Our Desires Are Not Our Own, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton

2017 Once upon a time the world wasn’t brown, Stockroom Gallery, Kyneton

2017 EMIC, WestEnd Gallery, Melbourne