Mossy Jade / Mossy 333 is an emerging multi-disciplinary artist working in performance, painting, sculpture, and installation, residing on whadjuk noongar country in boorloo, Western Australia. "Across these mediums, Mossy employs abstraction to explore her relationship with her body and her experiences navigating space as a transgender woman. Through her work, she strives to amplify the collective voice of transgender individuals, envisioning a future marked by understanding, acceptance, and rights for the trans community." Mossy has performed and exhibited locally and nationally, in solo and group projects at Arts Centre (VIC), ACCA (VIC), MPavilion (VIC), RMIT Design Hub (VIC), AGNSW (NSW), AGWA(WA), and PICA(WA).
Mossy Jade - CV
b. 1995, Boorloo / Perth, Western Australia
Lives & works in Boorloo / Perth, Western Australia
Education:
2011- 2012 Cert 3 & 4 in Visual Arts and Contemporary Craft, North Metropolitan TAFE, Northbridge WA
2017 Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) 1st year RMIT University, VIC
Solo Exhibitions:
2022 ‘Pistachio’ Case Frames Fremantle, WA
2021 ‘Girl Next Door’ Cool Change Perth, WA
Group Shows:
2023 ‘State of Abstraction' (curated by Isobel Wise), The State Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, WA
2023 'The Great Reveal', Lawson Flats, Perth, WA
2019 ‘Pleasure’ RMIT Gallery, VIC
2018 ‘Bloom’ At Current Gallery, VIC
2018 ‘Fractured View’ Visitors Gallery, The Belleville, VIC
2017 ‘Strength in Visions’ No Vacancy Gallery, VIC
2015 ‘HATCHED' (with Misklectic) Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Northbridge, WA
Art Direction and Installation:
2021 Assistant Director for ‘Whale Fall’ Written by Ian Sinclair, directed by Mel Cantwell (Kabuki Drop) Perth Festival, PICA WA
2022 Art Director & Installation Artist for Famili (Ripley Kavara) Arts House Melbourne, VIC
2020 Art Director & Installation Artist For ‘Famili’ (by Ripley Kavara) for Midsumma festival, The Abbotsford Convent VIC
Solo Performances:
2018 ‘Fish’ for Queer Some Space, Mpavillion VIC
2018 ‘Fish’ for Workaround (Simon Castricum) RMIT Design Hub VIC
2018 ‘Fish’ for Soft Centre Sydney festival, Casula Power Station NSW
2017 ‘Fish’ for Strength In Visions, No Vacancy Gallery VIC
Collaborative Performance Works:
2024 “LD4R’ (by Ripley Kavara) AGNSW, NSW
2020 ‘Praise’ Asiatopa Opening, (by Marcus Whale & Eugene Choi) Arts Centre Melbourne, VIC
2020 ‘Praise’ (by Marcus Whale & Eugene Choi) Asiatopa & Next Wave Brunswick Mechanics Institute VIC
2019 ‘Haunting The Flesh’ (by Mossy 333 & Papaphillia) Critical Mass & Melbourne Fringe, Brunswick Mechanics Institute VIC
2019 ‘Rui Ho’ (with Papaphillia) Liquid Architecture, Angel Music Bar VIC
2018 ‘Thresholds’ (by Mossy 333 & Papaphilia X Simona Castricum) Soft Centre, Casula Power Station NSW
2018 ‘Bodies of Evidence’ (by Embittered Swish) for Unfinished Business, ACCA VIC
2018 ‘Estrogenesis’ (by Embittered Swish) for Next Wave, Brunswick Mechanics Institute VIC
2017 ‘I’m Here’ (portrait of Mossy) by Misklectic RMIT VIC
2017 ‘Our Lady of the Flowers: Refracted’ (by Embittered Swish) Firstdraft NSW 2016 ‘Networked Selves: Portrait of a Zeitgeist’ by Misklectic, RMIT VIC
2016 ‘Our Lady of the Flowers’ by Embittered Swish, The Court House La Mama VIC
2015 The Fetish of Consumption (FOC), by Misklectic for Hatched, PICA WA
Awards:
2017- Winner of The Shirl National Youth Portrait Award Bega Valley Regional Gallery, for work “I’m here” with Miskletic
Residencies:
2018 Nextwave VIC
2017 First Draft NSW
2017 Punctum, Castlemaine VIC
Collections:
The State Art Gallery of Western Australia
Press:
“Love Letters in the Making” PICA Interview:
https://pica.org.au/mossy-jade-love-letters-in-the-making/
‘Pistachio’ RTR Interview:
https://rtrfm.com.au/story/how-the-humble-pistachio-inspired-artist-mossy-jade-johnson/
‘Un Magazine issue 17.1’