Originally from Aotearoa, New Zealand, Jesse Bowling is currently based in Melbourne where he is studying a Masters of Fine Art at the Victorian College of Art. He also holds an Honours degree in Fine Arts from Massey University College of Creative Arts in Wellington. By using multimedia installation, including digital media and product design, Jesse Bowling attempts to begin an enquiry into a techno-political contemporary lifestyle and the effects that consumerism has on both the individual participant and troubled environment from where these labour and material sources are extracted from. Bowling proposes that while in the Capitalocene epoch, consumerist intimacies with technologies are in many ways a method of survival, if not emancipation in these troubling times— even if these very technologies are always still bound within Capitalism itself.
Bowling co-founded artist run initiative MEANWHILE (NZ), and has recently exhibited at, KINGS ARI (VIC), Cool Change Contemporary (WA), Adam Art Gallery (NZ), Enjoy Public Art Gallery (NZ) and MEANWHILE (NZ). Originally from Aotearoa, New Zealand Bowling completed an Honours degree in Fine Arts from Massey University College of Creative Arts in Wellington.
He is currently based in Melbourne where he is studying a Masters of Fine Art at the Victorian College of Art.