About

Jocelyn Andress is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, drawing, and textiles. Through recurring motifs of florals, pattern, and ornamentation, Andress uses this imagery and colour to evoke notions of womanhood, exploring themes of memory, making, and shared feminine experiences. Reflecting flora found in both interior domestic spaces and exterior environments, her work considers the role that flowers play in moments of celebration, devastation, and everyday life.

Andress’s practice expresses an interest in intergenerational art-making such as craft and textile traditions, inspired by creative knowledge and feminine skills that are passed between women across generations. Drawing inspiration from domestic spaces, craft, and the natural world, her work investigates the cultural significance of practices that have historically been associated with femininity while challenging distinctions between fine art and craft.

Jocelyn is a Canadian artist living and working on the unceded territory of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, also known as Vancouver, BC. Jocelyn has shown with local galleries including Seymour Art Gallery, One More Life, and Peanuts Gallery. She graduated from Western University with a BFA in 2019.