Spotlight on Jade Andersen
Jade Andersen is a contemporary visual artist working and living in Sydney’s Northern Beaches. Graduating with a Bachelor OF Fine Arts (BFA) in 2024 from the National Art School, Jade is actively refining her artistic practice whilst working in the arts, as an art instructor at Make Your Mark Art, Brookvale and recently as a Gallery Assistant at Michael Reid Northern Beaches.
Jade works in a combination of photography and printmaking, specialising in hyper-realistic, large scale screen prints, exploring themes of the fragility and complexity of the human form. Jade is currently a Northern Beaches Studios tenant at Curl Curl Creative Space.
Our Local Creatives
Each month we showcase some of the talented people who live and work in our community, exploring the diversity of artistic and creative practices on the Northern Beaches.
Our creative community
The Northern Beaches is home to a higher than average percentage of artists, creatives and cultural workers.
Our local creative community generated $915 million in value added for the Northern Beaches in 2022/23. This is 6.1% of total Gross Value Added, above the Greater Sydney average (5.1%). Our artists and creatives are the drivers of a vibrant local economy.
Architectural Services was the top employing Creative and Cultural industry in the Northern Beaches, and Advertising Services was the top industry for employed residents living in the Northern Beaches. Book and magazine wholesaling employed 2.8 times more people than the Greater Sydney average, and photography was the largest specialised occupation with 2 times more people employed than the Greater Sydney average.
Our creative economy supported 6,992 local jobs (6% of total jobs in the LGA) and provided employment for 11,832 residents (7.4% of all employed residents) in 2022/23.
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