Jessie Kearney

Artist & Designer

Hello! My name is Jessie (she/they), I'm a multidisciplinary graphic artist from rural Ontario Canada. I studied at Sheridan College for 3 years to achieve the Visual and Creative Arts Advanced diploma, specializing in graphic design, digital art and traditional painting.

Artists Statement

My art is a living record of human experience, love and passionate interests. Using animals and nature, favoring the fox, while mixing in skeletal themes, themes of death and the occult I create meaningful stories of personal and shared experiences and identity as a woman, a person with mental health struggles, trauma, and a queer person. As well as creating pieces that represent and honor the people and things I love. Elements included in my work will most likely have a meaning behind them, from colour choice, animal choice, line weight, mediums used and the way those mediums are used. It can come down to even small details like a small shape choice, or the emotion that was put into a line. These things having a meaning are very important to me in my work. Utilizing linework, colour and a graphic art style, I create digital drawings and design work as well as traditional paintings and other multimedia pieces. I want my work to represent not just myself but other people as well. I aim to challenge the viewer to discover what my work means and the story behind it by not making it immediately obvious, having the viewer stop and work towards what it could be. Also to allow them to attach their own meaning to the work to make it a personal experience for each individual.

Artists Biography

Jessie Kearney is an interdisciplinary graphic artist and designer based in rural Mono Ontario. Studying at Sheridan College for three years, they achieved the Visual and Creative Arts advanced diploma, graduating in 2026. They expanded their skill and knowledge in many disciplines in the arts, narrowing in on a specialty for graphic design, digital art and painting as their main creative focus. Growing up and living as a woman, a queer person, a person with mental health struggles and a person with trauma in the art world has taught them perseverance, the importance of community and openness to new and exciting experiences. Their practice focuses on creating narratives about personal and shared experiences and identity, along with creating pieces that honour and represent the people and things they love. Currently they are working on crafting more graphic design pieces and paintings of many different ideas after graduation to continue to build onto their portfolio and breadth of work for potential clientele.