About
Jay Kay Wassell.
Multidisciplinary fine artist based in Sydney, Australia.
Jay has been making art since the age of 3 and still can’t keep paint off her clothes. She is currently living and working on Wallumedegal country, spending most of her time painting, printmaking, and illustrating. She moves easily from the large scale wall murals to tiny 4.5 x 6cm surfaces and often combines bright, block coloured components with realistic and natural elements.
Qualifications:
Fine Arts/Arts double degree
- Bachelor of Fine Arts majoring in: Sculpture, Performance, Installation at College of Fine Arts, now the UNSW Art and Design.
- Bachelor of Arts majoring in: Sociology and Anthropology at UNSW
Exhibitions:
The Poster Centre, Talking Posters: Garage Graphix, Leo Kelly Blacktown Arts Centre, April-May 2022
Blacktown City Art Prize, group exhibition, November 2020 (awarded Highly Commended for Local Art Prize)
Work-Shop Makery, Sydney, solo exhibition, September 2016
RAW Sydney's Futures, Sydney and Newcastle’s Verve, group exhibitions, 2016
Live events and commercial commissions:
- Bluebird Psychology Clinic wall murals, 2025 and 2023
- Just For Kids Physio wall murals, 2024
- This Is Your Time collaborative poster, State Library NSW, 2022
- Pinot and Picasso Taranaki, New Zealand, wall mural 2022
- “Edinburgh” linocut print, Private Collections, Scotland, 2022
- Chechos Restaurant and Penrith community outdoor mural, 2022
- Pinot and Picasso Rouse Hill, Wetherill Park, Penrith and Hawkesbury studio wall murals, 2021
- ‘Dahlias’ private wall mural, Blacktown, 2021
- Pinot and Picasso Head Office wall murals, 2021
- Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) Sydney, live wall art, May 2018
- Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) Sydney, watercolour portraits of mentors displayed at the Art Gallery of NSW, April 2018
- Mountain Sounds Festival, Central Coast, live wall art, February 2017 and 2018
- YouTube Creator Summit, Melbourne, set design + painting and live jacket painting, September 2017
- Single O coffee roasters, Sydney, t-shirt ‘o bot’ design, coffee bag illustration, March 2016
- Hi Josh, Sydney, office wall mural, May 2014
Teaching appointments:
- The Poster Centre, community screen printing workshops, Blacktown Arts Centre, 2022
- Pinot & Picasso, hosting artist, Wetherill Park, Rouse Hill, Castle Hill, Taranaki, 2020
Interviews:
Falling Into Freelance with Cheersthanxalot
Random Acts of Art at Single O
