Jesse Jones

Jesse JONES (1978, Ireland) is a Dublin-based artist working with film, performance and sculpture through expanded cinema. Her practice explores speculative feminisms, myth and suppressed archetypes, creating immersive installations that propose counter-narratives to dominant histories. She represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2017 with Tremble Tremble, inspired by the Italian wages-for-housework movement of the 1970s. Her recent work, Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon (2025), combines 16mm film and sculpture in dialogue with Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria. Jones teaches on Sherkin Island, West Cork, for TU Dublin, and is an elected member of the autonomous association of artists in Ireland, Aosdána.

Filmography

(all short) The Spectre and The Sphere (2008), Mahogany (2009), The Struggle Against Ourselves (2011), The Selfish Act of Community (2012), The Other North (2013), Tremble Tremble (2017), The Tower (2022), Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon (2025)