Jaykoe Projects

Irish / British, b. 1978, London. Based in London.

Jaykoe’s work explores globalisation through the accelerated impact on city space.

Operating at the intersection of urbanisation, postcolonialism and interculturalism, urban-spatial movements are sampled and traced within densely populated and expanding cities.

Areas of research are mapped out across the metropolis, shifting contours that fluctuate over the gridlines of the city like the movements of Parkour, probing the structures of the centres we build up, the forms they take and questioning what they reveal about us.

Drawing is the foundation of the work, overlaid with an approach to each project that actively combines and assimilates new materials and techniques in experimental forms. This interdisciplinary approach ranges through installation, neon, sculpture, video, performance, printmaking and other works on paper.

The legacy of colonialism and imperialism shaped the multicultural city of London where the artist was born. Being of Irish heritage influenced a critical position on the actions and the authority of the state.

Enquiries into movements of cultural resistance are layered with a background as a sound-system DJ. This resonates throughout the work,...

2008 – 2012
MA Fine Art (Distinction), The Cass, London, UK

Solo Installations

2010
Dependency Theory, New London Theatre, London, UK


Two Person Exhibitions

2013
10×10 • SAMPLED SPACE, Four Corners Gallery, London, UK


Selected Group Exhibitions

2014
Screen City Lab, Riga, Latvia
Artist’s Film, BFI Southbank, London, UK

2013
Hotel Elephant Gallery, London, UK
Screen City, Rogaland Kunstsenter, Stavanger, Norway
Nord Art, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Germany
The Other Art Fair, Ambika P3, London, UK
Tower Bridge (Engine Rooms), Tower Bridge, London, UK

2012
KISS THE FUTURE, Schwartz Gallery, London, UK
Feeling The Pressure, Rhyl Museum, Wales (Highly Commended)
FILE, SESI Gallery / FIESP Ruth Cardoso Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil

2011
Opening Night at the Castro, Castro Theater, San Francisco, USA
Online Show One, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, fermynwoods.co.uk

2010
VIDEOKILLS, HomeBase, Berlin, Germany

2008
Global Cities Project, DFG West, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan