Jes Fernie

Independent curator + writer interested in art, architecture, feminism + destruction.

[Jes Fernie @JesFernie]

I am hugely proud to launch the💥 Archive of Destruction 💥

It’s an online resource that is the culmination of ten years of research into public artworks that have been destroyed by rage, boredom, fear, greed + love.

https://t.co/NjaQsXJzEs

[Jes Fernie @JesFernie]

@sgaventa @JamesBettley 🙌🏼

[Magnum Photos @MagnumPhotos]

Canvey Island, Essex 📷️

Lúa Ribeira turned her lens to England’s eastern county of Essex for a collaborative project with writer and curator @JesFernie.

Read the article: https://t.co/IYvssD9TXk

© Lúa Ribeira / Magnum Photos

[Jes Fernie @JesFernie]

I wrote this essay for @MagnumPhotos about Essex and how weird it is

https://t.co/UsylQM6b7Z

[Niru Ratnam @niruratnam]

V perceptive article by @benson_louise for @ArtReview_ and btw the @EveningStandard article cited and critiqued by Louise is literally one of the most laughable/awful things I've read about contemporary art in the past few years...!

[Jes Fernie @JesFernie]

@AKingLondon @MK_Gallery 🙌🏼😁

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@JamesRavinet @Essex_CC @MagnumPhotos 🙌🏼

[James Ravinet @JamesRavinet]

Great to be supporting this project via the @Essex_CC #ArtsCulturalFund, which will combine newly commissioned work by Lua Ribeira and a wonderful essay by @JesFernie; a critical reflection on Essex and the @MagnumPhotos archive.

[Jes Fernie @JesFernie]

@JunctionArtsUK I’m just astounded by this. The budget is not only insane but perpetuates the idea that artists should live off enthusiasm and desperation.

This kind of brief is both reprehensible and damaging. Have a read: https://t.co/z4tioh3SuC

[MK Gallery @MK_Gallery]

The 𝙏𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙁𝙞𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨 catalogue is available now! 💥

By @JesFernie and @francis_w_c

🛍️ Buy in-store or online: https://t.co/JDGTh6FozQ

[MK Gallery @MK_Gallery]

Join @JesFernie, curator of 𝙏𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙁𝙞𝙜𝙪𝙧𝙚𝙨, at MK Gallery for a last tour of the exhibition before it closes 📣

Jes will present the thesis of the show, her experience of putting it together, and individual works.
https://t.co/xCIqjgALfq

[MK Gallery @MK_Gallery]

🚨 ONE MONTH LEFT to catch #TricksterFigures at MK Gallery! 🚨

We're now into the final few weeks of @JesFernie's exhibition, exploring the future of British sculpture.

Learn more and book your tickets: https://t.co/Sq3NzgHCsR

[Jes Fernie @JesFernie]

@AllElseIsGooky We have milk delivered. I love everything about it - the shape, the washing up, the imagined life cycle of the bottle, the chink as glass meets door step🤍🤍🤍

[Jes Fernie @JesFernie]

@HettieJudah https://t.co/EUstsrurZn

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@helen_nisbet @ARTNIGHTUK @mgerlis @FinancialTimes 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Jes Fernie @JesFernie]

@shannonmattern Hello Shannon, I would love to watch this talk. Is there a link somewhere? 🙏🏼

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

It's quite something that the world's top scientists put out a synthesis report that essentially says civilization as we know it will end unless the world comes together to stop rapidly expanding the fossil fuel industry but to instead rapidly end it, and almost no one cares

[Oren Ziv @OrenZiv_]

Watch: Israeli youth Yuval Dag speaks at the “anti occupation block” in Tel Aviv on Saturday.
Today, he refused to join the Israeli army, and was sent to detention @Mesarvot_

[Jelena Sofronijevic @jelsofron]

i spy sculpture: @MK_Gallery's Trickster Figures and Mike Nelson @haywardgallery, Polly Morgan and Leila Similu’s False Flags @Royal_Sculptors, plus @SomersetHouse turns Spaghetti Junction.

read @gowithYamo: https://t.co/LXSFKvkUvd

and hear about @haroldoffeh in EMPIRE LINES ↓

[Jes Fernie @JesFernie]

@jelsofron @MK_Gallery @haywardgallery @Royal_Sculptors @SomersetHouse @gowithYamo @haroldoffeh 🙌🏼 thank you! And lovely to see you liked the Deshayes / Aparicio combination.

[Lina Dzuverovic @Lina_Dzuverovic]

The wonderful people of @weindustria and @an_artnews have published their Structurally F-cked Report revealing some brutal truths about artists' working conditions in the artworld. https://t.co/zqNLLGFN56