Jessamine O'Connor

Mediator in Residence Visual Arts

01 — 31 January 2021

About the Artist(s)

Jessamine O’Connor lives on the Sligo Roscommon border and has published five poetry chapbooks, her collection ‘Silver Spoon’ coming out with Salmon Poetry in December 2020.

Winner of the Poetry Ireland Butlers Café Competition, the iYeats and the Francis Ledwidge awards, her poems have been shortlisted for others, including: the Hennessy Literary Award, Over the Edge New Writer of the Year; Cuirt New Writing, Red Line Book Festival; Dead Good Poetry, and the Doolin Writers Weekend competitions. Her short film The Stranger commissioned by Strokestown Poetry Festival, was shortlisted for the Ó Bheal International Poetry-Film competition 2019.

Some publications include: One (Jacar Press), The Ofi Press, The Cormorant, Skylight47, Poethead, The Poet’s Republic, Culture Matters anthology, Light (Black Light Engine Room anthology), Abridged, The Stinging Fly, New Irish Writing, The North, Fifth Estate and Autumn Leaves.

She is currently working on fiction as well as poetry, and studying for a BA in Writing and Literature at Sligo IT.

About Jessamine's Residency

Writer Jessamine O'Connor has been invited to make a creative response to the themes of our winter 2020/21 exhibitions THREADS and Air Looms. This will take the form of written work, such as poetry, fiction or non-fiction, to be published on this website in January. She will also compile playlists inspired by her visits to the galleries. Both exhibitions are rich in visual imagery, contemporary cultural and political issues. With the expansive range of ideas expressed in both exhibitions Jessamine is looking forward to developing ideas which mediate the work to a wider audience of readers and listeners.

Jessamine O'Connor

Mediator in Residence Visual Arts

About Jessamine's Residency

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