bio
Jessica Carmody (she/her) is a contemporary artist living and working in the Tulmer (Ipswich) and Meanjin (Brisbane) regions of Australia. Using installation, moving-image, and performance her practice investigates memory, corporeal and incorporeal traces, and domestic archives by examining personal and social feminist constructs of gender and the home. Jessica is currently undertaking a Doctor of Philosophy (Creative Arts) degree at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane researching depictions of the ‘haunted home’ and the spectral in contemporary women’s art.
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education
2024 - current
Doctor of Philosophy (Creative Arts)
Queensland University of Technology
2021
Master of Philosophy (Creative Practice)
Queensland University of Technology
2017
Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art) with Distinction
Queensland University of Technology
exhibitions
2021
Backyard: Video, Nextdoor ARI, Brisbane [Group Exhibition]
2020
The Lure of Memory: Chapter I, QUT Creative Industries Precinct Z13, Brisbane [Masters Examination]
The Lure of Memory: Chapter II, QUT Creative Industries Precinct Z13, Brisbane [Masters Examination]
The Lure of Memory: The Interlude, QUT Creative Industries Precinct Z13, Brisbane [Masters Examination]
The Lure of Memory: Chapter III, QUT Creative Industries Precinct Z13, Brisbane [Masters Examination]
2019
Excerpts 2019, The Block QUT Creative Industries, Brisbane [Group Exhibition]
2017
On Sight, QUT Creative Industries Precincts, Brisbane [Group Exhibition]
In Between, Frank Moran Memorial Hall, QUT Creative Industries Precincts, Brisbane [Group Exhibition]
Suss it Out, Post Datum, Hassell Architecture Studio, Fortitude Valley. [Group Exhibition]
Tender Turf, Post Datum, Hassell Architecture Studio, Fortitude Valley. [Group Exhibition]
writing
2025
Climate of Violence II: Lamentum, exhibition essay for Amy Sargeant and Arianna Nixon at Outer Space, Brisbane
2021
the lure of memory: embodying and reconstructing fragmented narratives through contemporary art, Masters Exegesis
experience
Eyeline Publishing
2019 - current
Administration Assistant
2017 - 2019
Publishing Intern
Boxcopy Contemporary Art Space
2020 - current
Gallery Caretaker
2018 - 2020
Gallery Co-Director
2018
Gallery Assistant
Queensland University of Technology
2024 - current
CIESJ HDR Steering Committee, Treasurer
2018
Project and Exhibition Co-Ordinator (Creative X, Visual Arts)
Interviewer, University Admissions (Visual Arts)
2017
Graduate Exhibition Management Committee, Curatorial (Visual Arts)
awards | prizes
2017
Dean’s List, First & Second Semesters - Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
2016
Dean’s List, First & Second Semesters - Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology
Nominated for: the Hilde Chenhall Memorial Prize, QUT (2017), the Dorothy Burt Memorial Prize, QUT (2019), the Churchie Emerging Curator Mentorship, IMA/QUT (2019), and the Bryan-Manton Prize, QUT (2021).