Jessica Ledwich is a photo artist based in Australia and the UK. Her work explores the role of the image in shaping contemporary ideals and female body culture.. She explores the uncanny, the abject and often the irrational to unmask the more complex side of human behaviour, analyzing its perversities, to distill down this strange phenomena we call 'culture'.

She initially studied a Bachelor of Performing Arts at Monash University, Melbourne, but found her true calling in photography and visual art. She regularly exhibits in Australia and overseas and her work is held in private collections in Australia, London, The United States, Lisbon and Hong Kong. In 2014 she completed a Master of Fine Art with Distinction at RMIT, Melbourne. Her series Monstrous Feminine recently received acclaim, enjoying press coverage in the US, UK, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Russia, Australia and New Zealand and was featured in the New York photography publication Musée Magazine's WOMEN issue and the Chicago political magazine The Point. Her solo Our Desires Are Not Our Own was selected by Art Guide Australia as Top 5 Exhibitions to see in Australia. She is a recipient of both an Australia Arts Council Artstart award as well as a Cultural Career Fund award was awarded the British Journal of Photography Fast Track Award as well as the 1854 Edition365 Award. She was most recently featured in the art book Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art published by Chatto and Wyndus.