jesspetley.com 

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JESS PETLEY
[Email] jnpetley@ntlworld.com
[Instagram] @joobaloob.s



BIO

Jess Petley is  an artist and illustrator, primarily creating works on paper in biro, coloured pencil, gel pens, pastels and watercolour.
Her practice  is inspired by the aesthetic culture of‘girliness’: notebooks filled with glitter, doodles scrawled on the margins of a of a page, gossip magazines, fluffy diaries.
Her style is defined by delicate, illustrative forms, constructing a make-believe world seeped in nostalgia.  
Mirroring the language of journalling through drawing, she dissects and ruminates on emotions and memories, articulating what she cannot with words.  

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CV
EDUCATION 

[2020-2024] 
BA (Hons) Fine Art- First Class
Newcastle University

EXPERIENCE 

Writing & Illustration Club Facilitator [2025-26] Longbenton High School

Arts and Craft Club Faciliator [2025]
Longbenton High School

Bartlett Crits Co-organiser [2024]
Newcastle University

Art Cafe Co-Runner [2023-2024]
Newcastle University 

Ilustrator  [2022-2024]
Live Theatre

Artist’s Assistant [2022–2023]
Newcastle City Council  

Illustrator  [2022]
Simply Stories

Performer [2022]
Tour De Moon

Arts & Crafts Instructor [2022]
Barracudas Activity Day Camps 


EXHIBITIONS
> ‘Come to the Art Show - Flowershop’ 
    Black Swan  (2024)
> ‘Free Range, Annual Creative Graduate Showcase’     Truman Brewery (2024)
> ‘Newcastle Fine Art Degree show’ (2024)
    King Edward VII building 
> ‘Uncanny’
    Bottleworks (2022)