Jack Bailey is a contemporary landscape artist based in Byron Bay whose work exists somewhere between photography and dream. Working across large-format still works and screen-based moving image installation, he isolates fractal moments from the broader environmental panorama, vignettes that feel vaguely familiar, buried in the psyche. Each work is a meditative portal to the natural world.

Still works are presented without glass in locally reclaimed timber, designed to extend the experience outward into the surrounding environment. His moving image practice (a growing focus) brings this same landscape into the world as screen-based installations, immersive and alive in ways a still image cannot be.

Before art, Bailey spent years in design and advertising, eventually becoming a creative director in the USA. In 2013 he walked away from Los Angeles and embarked on a solo four-month journey through Alaska in an old single-cab Toyota Hilux — camera in hand for the first time. He followed that with a month in Tasmania/Lutruwita, where the images became his first exhibition, LUTRUWITA.

Travel to wild and remote landscapes across the world is central to his practice, it is only in truly untouched places that the work finds its source material. 

Since 2015, Bailey has presented his work in solo exhibitions that regularly sell out. His film work has earned recognition at the Byron Bay International Film Festival, winning Best Experimental Film for CONTINUUM (2019) and HORSE (2023).