Jess Coldrey is an interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the shifting relationships between bodies, technologies and environments.
Working across textiles, photography, installation and digital media, she creates surreal and uncanny worlds where personal experiences intersect with broader systems of care, extraction, communication and change. Her projects draw from chronic illness, ecology, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, tracing the ways information, power and vulnerability move between individuals and the structures that surround them.
Through speculative systems and material experimentation, Coldrey reimagines the familiar through unexpected encounters, inviting audiences to consider how contemporary life is shaped by forces that are often invisible, intimate and difficult to control.
Her work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, the Australian Museum of Photography and the United Nations COP26 Climate Summit. Coldrey is the recipient of the Agendo Art Prize and has received support from Arts Council England, the Australian French Association for Innovation and Research, Yarra Ranges Tech School and Burrinja Cultural Centre.