Jones, Jesse

Jesse Jones is a Dublin-based artist, with a BA in Fine Art (Sculpture) from NCAD (2002) and an MA graduate 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 moments when this hidden history comes to surfaces such as the demonstration or strike and 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 re-staging a sense of history within contemporary contexts. By reinterpreting these artefacts Jones scrambles their initial cultural reference and meaning. Recent exhibitions in 2008 include The Spectre and the Sphere (solo show) Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Blackwood Gallery University of Toronto, Canada, and ICA Nought to Sixty programme, 2: Move Belfast Exposed, Art in the Life World, Ballymun, Dublin. Previous projects include 12 Angry Films ( 2006) a public art project commissioned by Fire Station Artists Studios and Dublin Docklands Development Authority.