I am the artist in residence at HearSay Audio Festival 2026. I’m currently working with Sixth Class at Scoil Fhionáin Kilfinane to create an alternative audio history tour of Kilfinane, featuring the surprising, creative and mysterious myths surrounding well known landmarks in the town.
I curated and facilitated a panel discussion on queering audio storytelling for Oorzaken Festival 2025, with guests Nicole Kelly and Randy Vermeulen – I cannot recommend listening to both their work enough. We looked at storytelling through a queer lens, what it can look like to ‘queer’ audio, making ‘queer normative’ audio and how to […]
I worked as Sound Designer for a 4 part series by The Europeans: Who Does It Best? The series looked at which European countries had policies that actually made our lives better, focussing on Housing, Childcare and Drugs. The Europeans has a really playful sound design style, so I had a lot of fun matching […]
New Year New You?! Sign up to safe + sound’s 12 week Short Form Audio course starting Monday 12th January 2026! Are you an early career audio producer? Someone working in audio looking to push yourself creatively? Someone with editing knowledge from a different craft – musician / sound designer / mix engineer / drag […]
I was one of four sound artists commissioned by Aunt Nell to make a creative response to letters from Press for Change’s archive. Press for Change was a formative lobbying group that brought about the Gender Recognition Act, and I was asked to make a response to a series of letters sent to Press for […]
JESSE LAWSON