Jessie French demonstrates the process of unmaking algae-based bioplastic, a biodegradable material that features in her work. It comes from new algae, a renewable resource whose sustainable production has the potential to rehabilitate oceans and the atmosphere, rather than ancient algae, the finite, mined resource petroleum is made from. French’s work features in our current exhibition Maluw Adhil Urngu Padanu Mamuy Moesik, which asks how we might decentre the human, prioritise care for Country, and pursue justice in an epoch of rising temperatures and seas.
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Jessie French is an artist and experimental designer based in Naarm/Melbourne, who invites engagement with the possibilities of a post-petrochemical world. Through experimenting with materials, she explores the potential of closed-loop systems, reuse, and conscious consumption. In 2020, she founded Other Matter, an experimental design studio working with algae-based bioplastics.
