Jay Bernard
Jay Bernard is an interdisciplinary writer and artist from London whose work is rooted in sound, dialogue, poetry and social history.
Recent work includes Transitions, a dialogue about culture and the present moment, co-written with Sita Balani; Far from the Start, an audio installation at Studio Voltaire that re-imagines the Windrush; Blue Now, a live rendition of Derek Jarman’s film ‘Blue’; Joint, a poetic-play about the history of the legal doctrine joint enterprise; Crystals of this Social Substance, a sound installation about young people, capitalism and class at the 2021 Ser-pentine pavilion; Complicity, a pamphlet about colonial memory in the urban environ-ment, based on the collection at the Tate; and The Last X Years, a hybrid digital work pro-duced by Art Angel.
Jay was named Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2020 and winner of the 2017 Ted Hughes Award for debut collection Surge, as well as a DAAD literature fellow in 2022, a 2023 fellow at the Institute of Ideas and Imagination in Paris and the 2025 Judith E. Wil-son poetry fellow at the University of Cambridge.