Jes Fernie

Jes Fernie is an independent curator, writer and lecturer based in the UK. Many of her projects are situated in the public realm beyond gallery walls. She is interested in the social, political and environmental context in which art is made, situated, and viewed. She writes and lectures extensively and has worked with a broad range of organisations including Tate, PEER Gallery, Serpentine Gallery, Turf Projects, Ikon Gallery, Manchester International Festival, Flat Time House, MK Gallery, Firstsite, Skissernas Museum, RIBA, Lund Cathedral, St Paul’s Cathedral and the RCA. She is an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, and a Board member of Matt’s Gallery. Her exhibition Trickster Figures: Sculpture and the Body at MK Gallery in 2023 considered ways that contemporary artists are thinking about the body’s newly configured relation to the world. In 2021 she launched the Archive of Destruction, a research project that brings together narratives around public sculpture that has been destroyed by rage, boredom, fear, greed and love.