Jess Marbe

Jess Marbe is an artist and educator. She studied at the  National College of Art and Design and MTU CCAD, Cork. She has initiated and lead local, national and international arts projects and collaborations across art forms and carried out artist residences in festivals, museums, galleries, both in Ireland and abroad. Jess has been supported by the Arts Council of Ireland through artists bursaries and travel and training awards.

           

Her creative pursuits connect the arts with growing, biking, sustainability and wellbeing.  She is interested in the intersection between, writing, performance and installation art. She is passionate about the power of the arts to connect and nurture empathy and action.

           

In 2022 she edited a journal in the field creativity and wellbeing. She works currently as a lecturer in MTU CCAD and in community initiatives where she supports students and participants to develop their creativity and expression in a wide range of forms.

 

In her work she is committed to strong artistic processes and outcomes and believes that art has the intrinsic capacity to contribute to a wide range social or other expectations that a group may bring to a participatory project.

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In the last years Jess’s practice has moved closer to home as her motherhood has shaped her practice and interests. She has an increasing passion about sustainable living, biking, growing food and using the arts to imagine with others the future we will create with and leave for our children.

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