Jasmine Kiyomi Roe-Bose is an emerging Canadian photographer and multidisciplinary artist based between locations in Melbourne, Victoria and Northeast Tasmania. Kiyomi’s work focuses on themes revolving around the ocean and the fantastical, taking advantage of different mediums to add touches of whimsy or etherealness, effortlessly weaving together and overlapping to highlight nature’s “little wonders”.

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Born in the coastal city of St. John’s, Newfoundland along the Atlantic Ocean’s Avalon Peninsula, Kiyomi grew up surrounded by culture and community centred around an oceanic environment.
Becoming even more encapsulated by the ocean at the age of four following her father's purchase of a Contessa 26

sailing yacht, Kiyomi spent several weeks each summer sailing around the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador to uniquely named coves, harbours and fishing villages.

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Kiyomi has explored creating art using a wide variety of disciplines and techniques, and gathers inspiration for her practice from a multitude of subjects and themes; nature, wildlife, the ocean, fantasy, video games, speculative fiction and a contemporary, generational perspective.

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Additionally, the presence of strong maritime and marine viewpoints in her life have further influenced the direction of her work; her father is a naval engineer and internationally-respected researcher, while her late godfather was a world-renowned whale researcher and ocean conservationist.