Jesse Jones is a Dublin-based artist, with a BA in Fine Art (Sculpture) from NCAD (2002) and an MA in Visual Arts Practices from IADT (2005). Jones’s practice focuses on the embedded political and social history within everyday life. She is interested in the moments when this hidden history comes to the surface, such as the demonstration or strike, and in moments of convergence. Seeing popular culture as an expression of this collective narrative of history, her work often adopts elements such as the B movie or pop music as a site of shared memory. Jones also uses the process of restaging a sense of history within contemporary contexts. By reinterpreting these artefacts, Jones scrambles their initial cultural reference and meaning. Can a drive in cinema become a site for films that had been blacklisted in the 50’s? Can a social housing project become the site for a symphonic suite? Or a pedestrian bridge the stage for an opera?

Recent exhibitions (in 2008) include The Spectre and the Sphere, (solo show), Project Arts Centre, Dublin; 2:MOVE, Belfast Exposed, Belfast; Art In The Life World, Ballymun, Dublin. Previous projects include 12 Angry Films (2006), a public art project, in which Jones worked with an elective community of participants contacted through community networks, trade unions and activist groups. The project consisted of 9-month collaborative process of film screenings, drama workshops and film making, which resulted in a temporary drive in cinema and radio station located in Dublin’s docklands. For further information see http://www.firestation.ie/downloads/12-angry-films.pdf

Forthcoming projects and exhibitions include Nought to Sixty, ICA, London (June 2008), Project | Performance, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, (June 2008). The Spectre and the Sphere (solo show), Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto (September 2008).