Complicity

London-based Jay Bernard is an artist whose work is interdisciplinary, critical, queer, and rooted in the archives. They were named the Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year (2020) and are the recipient of the Ted Hughes Award (2017) for Surge: Side A, a cross-disciplinary exploration of the New Cross Fire of 1981. The film Something Said (2017), an exploration of Black British history, has screened in the UK and internationally, including at Aesthetica and Leeds International Film Festival, where it won best experimental and best queer short respectively, and CinemAfrica. Their body of work also includes Crystals of this Social Substance (Serpentine Pavilion, 2021), Poet Slash Artist (Manchester International Festival, 2021), and Joint (Southbank Centre 2022).