Tess Jetnikoff is known for her intense colours and thick impasto oil paintings. Themes of minority power, feminism, queer existence and resistance meet colour head on.

Living on Bundjalung country (Byron Bay), Tess is an artist, musician, music producer and DJ. Bringing the bold rhythm of an OTT palette to every artwork, striking a chord of between harmony and something unsettling as common household objects are cast under a ray of spellbinding colour.

“Her multifaceted jewel like interpretations of the mundane everyday objects meet a spectrum of acid-sharp and ripe garish colours. Heavy impasto handmulled oil paints almost sculpt the female gaze of Tess’s sensual portraits of women of minorities

Reminiscent of Fauvism, eccentric Maximalism and her obsession with heavy lashings of oil paint, her artwork can take days or months to finish.”