Unexpected Views: Artist Jesse Jones on Savoldo's 'Mary Magdalene' | National Gallery

The artist and educator Jesse Jones talks about why she is drawn to Savoldo's 'Mary Magdalene' and why, given her love of film and cinema, it strikes her as a modern image.

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. 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.

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