Jade Four (b.1997) is a contemporary artist living and working in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Her practice reflects the lived experiences of women, engaging with themes of feminism, sexuality, and the enduring impact of patriarchal systems. Working across paper, canvas, and sculpture, she employs materials including pencil, acrylic, watercolour, oil pastel, and recycled elements to articulate the emotional complexity of her subject matter.

Her work operates as a visual exploration of womanhood, navigating the tensions between gender identity, sexual autonomy, and societal expectation. Drawing on nostalgia associated with childhood and girlhood, she examines the fragile space between innocence and its erosion, tracing how misogyny and patriarchal structures shape, distort, and prematurely strip away these formative experiences. Engaging the personal as political, her work reflects on power, embodiment, and the ongoing negotiation between constraint and self determination.

Central to Four's practice is an exploration of contradiction through imagery, scale, and text. Drawing on visual languages associated with pleasure, nostalgia, and femininity, she employs colour, pattern, text, and found materials to create works that are simultaneously inviting and unsettling. Familiar forms are disrupted through acts of interruption, fragmentation, and exaggeration, revealing the tensions that exist beneath seemingly benign representations of girlhood and womanhood. Text functions as both a critical and disruptive device, reclaiming misogynistic language through humour, irony, and resistance. Through an intuitive, process-led approach, she constructs spaces where attraction and discomfort coexist, using material and visual friction to reflect the complexities of gendered experience.

Through this approach, Jade creates work that fosters dialogue around autonomy, visibility, and the complexities of existing beyond objectification, asserting not only survival, but the right to exist fully and freely.