Jasmine Coe

Jasmine Coe is a Wiradjuri-British painter and silk scarf designer based in the UK. In late 2016, she travelled to Australia for the first time to connect to her Aboriginal heritage and to meet her Father after 20 years apart.

Having struggled with race and self-identity growing up, her work now focuses on harmonising internal conflicts that arise from having two lines of heritage, which together hold a traumatic history. Jasmine’s work celebrates the beauty of the natural world, using painting as a restorative, healing process to provide space for an understanding of self-identity to develop.

As well as painting and designing silk scarves, Jasmine has recently been working on developing her work by exploring the bridge between art and fashion. In the near future she hopes to have her first sustainable slip dress collection using her print designs.

Jasmine became a member of Boomalli Aboriginal Artist co-operative, Sydney in 2018. She graduated from Fine Art at Bath Spa in England where she specialised in Portraiture. 

In this video, Jasmine talks to NAVA about her practice as a personal attempt to heal present and past, and the need to provide emerging artists with the skills to navigate the arts world.

Video production by Dominic Kirkwood 2020.

Image: Jasmine Coe. Photo by Sam Walton, 2021.