About Jesse

RUA RED is excited to welcome our first Digital Arts Studio resident, Jesse Jones.

Jesse is an artist from Ireland. She has just completed an international fellowship in New York as part of a fellowship residency program at Location One, sponsored by The Arts Council.

Jesse’s practice focuses on the embedded political and social history within the cinematic space. 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.

Jesse Jones will be developing a new work called “In These Trouble times” based on the Brechtian quote from the 1929 opera, “the rise and fall of the city of Mahoganny”.

The project aims to examine the effect of the collapsed Celtic tiger economy on the urban landscape and trace how ideas of optimism and disappointment collide in our conciseness through discursive workshops and film screenings during her residency.