Jessica Yeandle-Hignell lives and works in Vancouver. Her artistic practice moves between object-making, digital environments, and sequential drawings. Across these forms, she looks at how imagination can help people get through unstable times.
Her work takes cues from psychoanalysis, fringe knowledge, and the paranormal, using them as frameworks to understand emotion without confining it.
Jessica grew up moving between Thunder Bay, Shawnigan Lake, Kingston, and Calgary. Her current project, a graphic novel titled Erotic Fatigue, follows artists and friends trying to grow up without solid ground to stand on. It looks at dependence, projection, and how fantasy fills the space between what people want and what they can hold onto.
Alongside her art practice, Jessica runs Sunroom Relic, a small loan-out company that provides property design and fabrication for film. The work keeps her grounded in the physical world while her drawings map the emotional one that continues to evolve.
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Which ’hood are you in?
East Van.
What do you do?
I draw, probe the subconscious in all its absurdity, and I build. I like to find bridges between the emotional and the practical.
What are you currently working on?
I’m creating a body of work that’s part drawing and part writing experiment, essentially a graphic novel. I’m interested in how stories about other people eventually circle back to your own blind spots.
Where can we find your work?
jessicayh.com, sunroomrelic.com, and on Instagram at @erotic.fatigue and @sunroom.relic.
