Brandt Jesnoewski is a Perth-based contemporary artist whose practice explores pain, identity, labour and excess through expressive figurative painting.

Jesnoewski combines distorted bodies, grotesque humour and recurring imagery of flesh, teeth and wounds with acrylic, enamel spray paint, drawing and gestural mark-making.

His experience working within professional kitchen culture forms an important undercurrent within the work. The physical and psychological demands of labour — exhaustion, repetition, injury, compulsion, camaraderie and endurance — are translated into bodies that appear simultaneously damaged, humorous and alive.

Jesnoewski's process is deliberately physical. Layers are built, disrupted, scraped, painted over and allowed to react, leaving evidence of the act of making within the finished surface. In this way, materiality becomes an extension of the subject itself.

Having exhibited publicly in Western Australia since 2018, including Pulse Perspectives and the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Art Prize, Jesnoewski continues to develop an independent studio practice in Perth.