28 August 2020 Sinéad Gleeson and Jesse Darling
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Frieze magazine cover, Sept 2020
'Every time I've shaved my head, or sported a suede head of regrowth, there is always a response, especially from men. They are mostly horrified, or bemused; some declared it attractive: but I was always asked to justify myself. To explain what I'd done. And why. ...
Are you a lesbian?
Why would you make yourself so unattractive?
But ... it's like sabotaging yourself.
What did your mother say?
...
In my aunts kitchen in the 1980s, in a Dublin barber's in the 1990s, in a dedicated leukaemia hospital wing in the 2000s, I have stared at the aftermath of my hair. Strands curled like question marks on the floor.'
Sinéad Gleeson
Constellations: Reflections from Life, 2019
Sinéad Gleeson's Twitter feed 25 August 2020
Great to see that author Sinéad Gleeson has written an article on Jesse Darling for Frieze magazine September issue. Feels really exciting as I have just connected the two of them in my Critical Practice essay. I tried to get hold of a copy through Camberwell library yesterday – so frustrating. The librarian said Frieze have now stopped access to it electronically and even though she said I can come in next week (so exciting!) they don’t know if they have that issue, we'll see, if not there's always South London Gallery shop next door …
Jesse Darling Collapsed Cane, 2017,
Steel, aluminum, rubber and lacquer
75 × 60 × 2.5 cm
(Chapter NY, 2018)