Jennie Cole is an artist and writer who lives in London, UK. She works across the areas of poetry, fiction, interviews, video, painting, artist’s books, and other printed matter, with enthusiasm for unruly formats and the crossing of discourses.
Much of Jennie’s art and writing concerns debris, found language, technology, feminism, money, mysticism, sexuality, and biomorphism. Her work often examines the assignation of value and structuring of significance in textual and visual culture.
Jennie’s works typically feature combinations of materials, images, and structures that disrupt associative conventions to generate poetic forms of disorder, as a way of exploring the capacity of language to shape ideas, understanding and experience.
Selected group shows and festivals include Printed Poetry, Arnolfini (Bristol, UK, 2021), Conceptual Poetics, Southbank Centre (London, UK, 2016), The Future of Visions, European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück, Germany, 2016), Digital POP, Athens Digital Arts Festival (Athens, Greece, 2016), CLICK CLICK CLICK, Whitebox Art Center (New York, USA, 2014), FUTUREPROOFING, NEoN Digital Arts Festival (Dundee, UK, 2014), Directed: The Intersection of Book, Film, and Visual Narrative, MCBA Book Arts Biennial, Minnesota Center for Book Arts (Minneapolis, USA, 2013), and Shunt Lounge (London, UK, 2009).
Jennie’s art is featured in publications including Emergency Index and Performance Research.
Jennie’s book of poetry Gargantua was published by BlazeVOX (New York, USA) in 2016.
Her poetry has also been published in magazines including Eratio, Otoliths, and EPIZOOTICS!
Her artist’s books are held in many private and public collections, including special collections at UWE Bristol (UK), SUNY Buffalo (New York, USA), Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (UK), Wellcome Collection (London, UK), Cardiff Metropolitan University Library (UK), OOMK Future Library, Open School East (London, UK), London College of Communication, University of the Arts London (UK), and The Poetry Library, Southbank Centre (London, UK).
Artist’s books can be purchased in London
at bookartbookshop.
Artist’s books, prints, and postcards can be purchased online
from Manticoria.
