Louise Amy Jacquet (b. 1986) is an Australian designer, visual artist, and poet based in London, trained in illustration, colour psychology, graphic design and art direction. She creates paintings for adults, illustrations for children, and poetry for both.

She began her working life as a professional carer, specialising in children’s learning disabilities, brain injuries, and dementia care, a decade spent with people for whom language had gone elsewhere, and where creativity became the only common tongue. When she was scouted by a modelling agent and found herself moving between care homes and international film sets, she did not reconcile these worlds so much as carry them both, watching closely what it means to have a voice, and what it costs when culture decides you don’t. This continues to deeply inform her creative work, where she collaborates on projects that inspire hope and human connection, exploring how the human mind is shaped by its environments, and the vulnerable power that lives precisely where strength and surrender cannot be separated.

Her work moves between mediums the way memory moves between the body’s rooms: nonlinearly, with sudden light.

Jacquet works in the territory where contemporary fine art meets embodied psychology, making visible what lives beneath the surface of a culture that has largely forgotten how to look there.

Her pieces are studies in duality. A canvas split equally between white and black, holding a sculptured form at its threshold. A face half-present, half-dissolved. Gold at the centre of ruin. Jacquet works in mixed media, plaster, linen, oil, acrylic, pigment, layering material until the surface holds both the wound and its healing simultaneously. Nothing is resolved. Everything is held. Her poems move through fragmentation, symbiosis, and nurturing as metaphor, the body as a vessel that gives beyond its own fullness.

At the core of her practice sits the question: what is modern society doing to our soul? Her work does not teach. It enacts. Each piece is a somatic record, the body as both witness and map, the act of making as necessity.

Jacquet spent her childhood in a rural New South Wales coastal town, living in a caravan with her mother and brother, left largely to explore her own imagination and the land. Her primary school taught Aboriginal Dreamtime, surrounded as they were by those communities, instilling in her a deep reverence for our connection to, and humble position within, nature. She was awarded a scholarship to The Whitehouse Institute of Design at seventeen, and later studied colour psychology and painting at The International School of Colour and Design.

She moved to London in 2010, trained in graphic design, and became an art director in print advertising. In her spare time she wrote poetry, recorded and performed with her friend, guitarist and music producer Martin Savale of Asian Dub Foundation. Teaching herself to navigate her previously undiagnosed dyslexia became the unexpected engine of her practice — it was not despite the struggle but through it that she found her voice. In 2019 she became a mother. In 2020, in lockdown, the work began to take its full form.

Shadows Majesty, her debut multimedia exhibition, presented at Great Western Studios, London in October 2025, brought together nine large paintings, sculpture, and a recorded illustrated poetry album a decade in the making. It is the first part of a trilogy chronicling the dance of the ego, the self, and the soul, with a core message as a path to transcend divisiveness, return to innocence and play, and become one with what we do and who we are. Like a musician becomes one with the music, or a lover becomes one with the beloved. Become the song. Be the poetry.