Visual Arts
Jesse Jones
Jesse Jones is an artist based in Ireland. She studied for her BA in fine art at the national college of art and design and Ma in IADT Dublin. Her practice is multi-platform, working in film installation, performance and sculpture. Using a form of expanded cinema she explores suppressed archetypes and myth as feminist potentialities. She represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2017 with her installation “Tremble Tremble”.
She has had solo presentations at Guggenheim Bilbao, Artsonje Seoul, Talbot Rice Edinburgh, Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin, Spike island UK. Kunsthalle Gent has commissioned her work “Syllabus” as part of the permanent exhibition program. Her work is held in collections in the Irish Museum of Modern Art and Hugh Lane gallery. She was recently awarded Tatler Woman of the year, Art and design 2022.