Landscape illustration by Jessie Barrett showing a colourful map of Australia and New Zealand.

Jessie Barrett is an illustrator with a love for composition and narrative, who uses dynamic compositions within her work to create bold and layered formats. She uses her interests outside of illustration, such as playing football, to inform her practice. For example, she is developing a freelance practice in sports illustration for promotion and advertisement, illustrating small briefs around niche sporting events.

A poster on a wall, picturing a football themed map of Australia and New Zealand. Illustrated by Jessie Barrett.

Aside from an interest in sports, she has gained a love for reportage illustration, discovering the genre through her time at university. She is intrigued by how illustration can be used as an engaging platform to raise awareness and provide wider audiences to people from disadvantaged backgrounds globally.

A selection of small illustrations by Jessie Barrett, including scarfs, football stadiums and animals such as kangaroos and cassowaries.

This has great influence on how she approaches visual narrative projects, as well as her own reportage and mapmaking projects, which she always seeks opportunities for, alongside her developing sports illustration practice.

Short 16-page comic on the past century of women's football in England. Two booklet of the comic 'Moments of a Century' by Jessie Barrett. One booklet shows the cover page, the other is opened on a spread.
Two spreads from the comic Moments of a Century by Jessie Barrett, showing football players with a red and blue colour scheme.