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 her practice is a material and visual language of contrast. She is drawn to visually appealing imagery, colour, materials, and pattern, elements that evoke familiarity and pleasure, before disrupting them with harder forms, jarring colour shifts, and moments of tension. Text appears throughout her work as a recurring device, reclaiming and dismantling misogynistic language through humour, irony, and defiance. An ongoing exploration of scale further unsettles these compositions, shifting the relationship between intimacy and confrontation. Through an intuitive, process driven approach, she builds works that oscillate between control and chaos, allowing material tension to mirror conceptual conflict.

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.