About
Unexpected views are monthly conversations between our curators and some of the most important cultural practitioners of today.
Discussions focus on a selected masterpiece from our Collection, exploring its relevance to the artist’s work, or more broadly to current social and cultural issues.
By allowing for new discussions of old works, the series aims for critical, counter-intuitive and joyful approaches to our collection, which reflect the breadth of contemporary artistic practice.
Jesse Jones
Jesse Jones takes inspiration from female saints such as Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo’s ‘Mary Magdalene’.
Jesse Jones is a Dublin-based artist. Jones’ practice is multi-platform, working in film, performance and sculpture through speculative feminisms and myth. She represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale 2017 and has had solo shows at Mimosa House, London, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, and the Guggenheim, Bilbao. Jones is currently exhibiting a new body of work at Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, entitled ‘Mirror Martyr Mirror Moon’, a 16mm film installation made in response to Artemisia Gentileschi’s masterpiece ‘Self-portrait as St Catherine of Alexandria’ (1616), as part of our National Treasures tour.
This event is a rescheduled event from 28 June.
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Unexpected views
Onsite tickets
Free
Please book a free ticket to attend these talks. Ticket includes Gallery entry.
Please arrive in good time to access the building and find the event.
Bookings close one hour before the event.
