Jesse Jones

Jesse Jones is a Dublin-based artist. Using a form of expanded cinema she explores magical counter-narratives drawn from suppressed archetypes and narrative alterity through immersive film installation. Jones’ practice is multi-platform, working in film, performance and sculpture through speculative feminisms and Myth.

Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon (2024) a 16mm film installation made in response to Gentileschi’s masterpiece Self-portrait as St Catherine of Alexandria (1616). She represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2017 with the project Tremble Tremble, whose title is inspired by the 1970s Italian wages for housework movement, during which women chanted “Tremate, tremate, le streghe sono tornate! (Tremble, tremble, the witches have returned!)”. She teaches on Sherkin Island, West Cork for TU Dublin.