DANIEL JEWESBURY

DANIEL JEWESBURY - Biography

Daniel Jewesbury was born in London and studied Sculpture at the National College of Art & Design, Dublin. He moved to Belfast in 1996 and subsequently studied for a PhD in the Media Studies department of the University of Ulster at Coleraine, which he received in 2001.

Daniel's work has been shown internationally, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and Manifesta 3 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Having used many media in the past, including video, photography and radio, Daniel is now concentrating on the use of 16mm film. His solo exhibition at Void, Derry, in 2007, featured two new works shot in 16mm, No Special Place and 10 Monologues. Both works were two-screen installations with multichannel sound. No Special Place, a particularly ambitious piece of work several years in planning, appropriates elements of the 1954 novel Bhowani Junction, by John Masters, set amongst the Anglo-Indian community immediately prior to Indian independence; its fractured narrative of unreliable memories investigates the uncertainty and mobility of one's sense of self.

If the curious interrelationship of memory, biography and narrative are persistent themes in Daniel's work, so is a concern with place. Both in artworks and in published writing Daniel has expressed an interest in the politics of regeneration and redevelopment, and the way in which individuals come to understand and express their relationship to the places in which they live.

Daniel is currently working on three new pieces of work, one filmed during his residency at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Celje, Slovenia, during 2008; one commissioned for the group show Prehistory of the Crisis II at Project, Dublin in July 2009; and a film entitled New Lodge Road, the first part of a series of 'film portraits' of Belfast.

Daniel's writing is widely published, in such titles as Source, Mute, Third Text, Variant (of which he is a co-editor) and, of course, The Vacuum. He has also written three catalogue texts for Willie Doherty, including the essay 'What we will remember, and what we must forget', for the 2007 Venice Biennale.

Daniel is also the Northern Representative for Visual Artists Ireland.

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