OPENING: TILT Commission 2025, Jessee Lee Johns | Dismantle, Jess Day | post 2 post, Paul Boyé & Ella Valentine x Sounds 28

Exhibitions opening and live music, Saturday 29th November, from 5pm, FREE entry, with full bar, great food, and spectacular views over the Derbal Yerrigan.

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TILT Commission 2025, Jessee Lee Johns

Jessee Lee Johns is the 2025 TILT artist, based in Boorloo, Western Australia, where he was born in 1980 and continues to live and work. Jessee’s journey in the arts began with a Bachelor of Fine Art from Curtin University, although he admittedly struggled to fully grasp the academic environment. This led to a significant break from the formal practice of fine art.

In time, Jessee returned to painting, yet faced the challenge of finding appropriate spaces to exhibit his work. This led to the creation of a gallery in a Perth suburb, an area known for its fly dumping. Dubbed CIOMA, the gallery hosted a series of exhibitions before it was occupied and eventually demolished. However, the legacy of CIOMA lived on in various forms, most notably as an alternate future that re-emerged in 2018.

In 2017, Jessee founded the Commonwealth of New Bayswater, a self-declared micro-nation of which he is the sole citizen. The Commonwealth’s borders materialise sporadically, typically in conjunction with the Fremantle Biennale, and are as fleeting as an algal bloom.

Jessee is also the proprietor of Prestige Bricks, a business that specialises in crafting distinctive feature bricks, repairing damaged ones, and addressing the broader housing crisis. His artistic practice reflects a deep, intentional misunderstanding of the world, driven by a desire to create works that offer shelter to the human spirit amidst the overwhelming forces of rationality, especially the economic systems that dominate today. Through his work, Jessee continues to explore a world in which he admits he may never fully understand, but in which he remains steadfastly engaged.

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Dismantle, Jess Day

Dismantle is a material investigation into the sense of security and reverance placed on both the home's mantlepiece and the objects that often occupy the mantle.

Jess Day, a visual artist working in Boorloo, combines her ongoing interest in portable, pragmatic survival objects with the fixed, warm heart of the home- the mantlepiece. Day combines the materiality found on the mantle with that of outdoor survival gear, resulting in objects that act as both supports for additional objects, such as shelves and cupboards, and as an object in themselves.

Day completed her PhD at Curtin University in 2023 specialising in Fine Art and Highly Individuated Preparedness (or Prepping) and was awarded the Chancellor's Commendation. Recent exhibitions include Melville Contemporary at Goolugatup 2023, Hee-Haw at Lawson Flats 2023, and Stuffed, Bolstered and Upholstered at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery 2024.

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post 2 post, Paul Boyé & Ella Valentine

post 2 post is a collaboration between writer Paul Boyé and artist Ella Valentine. They have recently converged with a mutual interest in 'posting,' which names the activity of casually producing content and sharing it online, often without much thought or feeling. Posting is both ecstatic and mundane, a kind of compulsive anti-diary, a subconscious ramble, and a first-thought-best-thought dumping into the endlessly accepting receptacle that is social media. Even though they work intentionally and autonomously in their respective practices, the impulse to post remains.

At the core of the work is an improvised exchange of 'something-posting' phrases—happy-posting, grid-posting, lite-posting, drink-posting, etc.—that captures the fecundity of posting through a repetitive and tedious score. Here, they dig deeper than their usual off-the-cuff posting habits: Is posting work? Are we numb to the pains of being exploited for our data, harvested to train machine learning models and produce market insights? Other works in the exhibition will draw from the affective and perverse consequences of posting. They look to observations on influencer culture as a large sample space of the current internet cultural crisis. At this moment, they are drawn to dissecting the recent trend of promoting ‘journaling’ as a wellness practice alongside hydration encouragement ephemera as a closed-loop system between health and content.

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Goolugatup Sounds 28 (!)
From 5pm Saturday, 29 November 2025.
GOOLUGATUP SOUNDS returns in for its 28th edition ~ acts TBA

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GETTING HERE – Goolugatup Heathcote is a cultural precinct located on the shores of the Derbal Yerrigan, in the suburb of Applecross, just south of the centre of Boorloo Perth, WA. It is 10 minute drive from the CBD, and ample free parking is available. The closest train station is Canning Bridge, and the closest bus route the 148.

w. goolugatup.com
a. 58 Duncraig Rd, Applecross WA
e. heathcote@melville.wa.gov.au
i. @goolugatupheathcote
p. 08 9364 5666

Banner photo by Luke Latty, Jessee Lee Johns (detail).