Bindi Digital Art Prize
Coldrey’s artwork ‘An Alien Presence’ will be on display as a finalist for the Bindi Digital Art Prize in Alice Springs, Australia.
S+T+ARTS Conference Presentation
Coldrey’s talk, Epistemologies of Healing: Hybrid Visual Research in Flood-Affected Communities, will be presented in Barcelona at the Open University of Catalunya.
Art of Nature
Coldrey is one of 90 artists on display, exploring our relationship with the natural world.
Into the Rabbit Hole @ CPH:DOX
Into the Rabbit Hole, Coldrey’s textile exhibition on endometriosis will have its European debut in Denmark.
Shaping Fashion Futures - Exhibition Opening
Experience the intersection of art, technology, and sustainable fashion in a unique and thought-provoking display.
Artist Residency - Bendigo Tech School
Get ready for an incredible showcase featuring breathtaking AI-generated fashion and creative science fiction landscapes, all with a futuristic sustainability twist.
Panel talk - Exploring human-robot interactions in urban life
This expert panel discussion will explore some of the technologies, policies and approaches that are enhancing the quality of human-robot interactions in urban environments.
Opening and Panel Discussion - Into the Rabbit Hole
Join the artist for bubbles, experience a compelling panel discussion, and delve into the world of endo through this surreal and evocative exhibition.
Into the Rabbit Hole
Into the Rabbit Hole isn't just an exhibition—it's a powerful platform for awareness and inclusivity, breaking the silence around chronic pain. Immerse yourself in mesmerising surrealist textile art as Jess Coldrey explores life with endometriosis.
Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art
The Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art (NPCA) is awarded every two years and is open to emerging and established artists working in any medium across Australia.
Pain Pageant: A Visual Chronicle of Life with Endometriosis
'Pain Pageant: A Visual Chronicle of Life with Endometriosis' delves into the personal battle of living with endometriosis. Through sculpture, photography, and drawing, Coldrey explores the taboos and performance surrounding the chronic illness.
Signal Summer: Remix Resort
Remix resort is a collective experiment in digital art-making using machine learning to create a site-specific video work for Federation Square.
MAP Portrait Prize
Coldrey’s artwork Utopian haze, dissonant gaze, is a finalist for the inaugural Mudgee Arts Precinct Portrait Prize. Mudgee Arts Precinct is a state-of-the-art purpose built gallery, providing a collaborative and accessible space, bringing together artists and the community.
Communicating Endo through Art
This inaugural in-person exhibition will showcase artworks from Australian and French artists living with endometriosis that will also be accompanied by key endometriosis research speakers.
Engineering Artist Residency
Coldrey is a Maker in Residence at King’s College London, Engineering. Her residency involves understanding what inspires students and academics and King’s, shaping a creative new department identity, guest lecturing, and creating artefacts using digital fabrication and robotics.
2022 William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize
The Bowness Photography Prize is an important annual survey of contemporary photographic practice in Australia and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country.
Fortyfive Downstairs Emerging Artist Award
The Fortyfive Downstairs Emerging Artist Award is an annual exhibition presenting Australian artists with technical proficiency in their chosen medium, original techniques, clearly articled concepts and a strong visual presence.
MENTAL: Colours of Wellbeing
Coldrey was a collaborator on Rachel Hanlon’s Hello Machine, Hello Human interactive AI telephone installation. Hello Machines are situated across the globe in ever-changing locations and time zones.
Cyborg Futures Pop Up
The Tate houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. Cyborg Futures: Late at Tate Britain explores the contrast between our analogue and digital selves.
2022 Northern Beaches Environmental Art & Design Prize
Artists and designers, are agents of change, often taking the lead in responding to environmental or societal challenges. This year, Australian artists share their unique perspectives and creative ideas for positive change in the 2022 Environmental Art & Design Prize.
Percival Photographic Portrait Prize
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery is Townsville's premier regional art gallery, offering a dynamic range of local, national and international exhibitions complemented by workshops, talks and a host of other programs.
Holding Pattern: Between here and tomorrow
Holding pattern will see work created that explores the nature of change, the intermediate state. Through this, artists do what they are exceptional at - they will imagine a future.
ANAT SPECTRA 2022 :: Multiplicity
The program foregrounds Australians working at the edge of experimental and anti-disciplinary practice. It will provide a space for the joy and pleasure of the contest of ideas, research and creation, deliberations of their impacts and meanings for future societies and the generation of new artworks that might help us get there.
The Australia France Endometriosis Communication Forum: Diagnosis Innovation
This event, generously supported by the Australian French Association for Innovation and Research, will stimulate discussions about key endo issues and opportunities while creatively grounding conversations in patient experience.
QENDO Artist Interview
Join artist Jess Coldrey and Amanda Grogan the QENDO Counsellor for an intimate conversation about how she weaves her pain and endometriosis experiences into her artwork.
Mental Exhibition
Jess collaborated on artist and PhD candidate Rachel Hanlon’s most recent ‘Hello Machine’ installation for Science Gallery’s inaugural exhibition MENTAL, which involved creating and recording an artificially intelligent chatbot which participants can communicate with through a vintage telephone.
EWB Link Research Symposium
Link ∞ Research Symposium showcases humanitarian research focused on providing communities in the Asia-Pacific region with the knowledge and technology they need to live a life of opportunity free from poverty.
COP26 Climate Change Art Exhibition - Glasgow
The United Nation's annual climate change conference, known as COP26, takes place in Glasgow this November. World leaders will come together to plan how to tackle the urgent threat of climate change – and you can be part of this historic moment. Coldrey will be exhibiting a digital data painting with Water Aid exploring the socio-hydrology of Australia’s Yarra Catchment.
VOGUE lll Exhibition - London
Boomer is a London based art gallery created by a group of British artists and art enthusiasts who aim to transcend the gap between culture and countries, highlight the best hidden gems out there and push the boundaries forward”.
International Conference of Undergraduate Research
Coldrey will be presenting a poster showcasing her preliminary research project with Engineers Without Borders Australia, a non-profit organisation operating nationally and internationally with the aim of improving the quality of life of disadvantaged communities through education and the implementation of sustainable engineering projects.
Past exhibitions
MADA Now
Monash University, 2020
HillScene Festival
Karwarra Australian Native Botanic Garden, 2019
Emerging Artist Award
45 Downstairs Gallery, 2019
Immerse Festival
Ferntree Gully Library, 2019
Burrinja Residency
Burrinja Gallery, 2019
Science in Art
St. Vincent’s Hopsital, 2018
Art and the Machine
Intermission Gallery, 2019 (solo exhibition)
Wall to Wall
Monash University, 2018