moondawn (2026)
Accompanying a performance poem and artist book about rural trans childhood in refuge and becoming, this sound work is an offering of temporary rapture, wavering promise, and blessed desire.
Commissioned by Matthew-Robin Nye for the exhibition Goodnight Moon: a Rhythm, a Tempo, at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery, November 2025 to March 2026.
Jefferies continues to explore how fragmented knowledge and stories – communicated through archival materials, found objects, and oral histories – can form interconnected and fluid narratives between the past and present.
For this work, she transformed audio fragments from oral history recordings into an ambient siren song. Overlaid with the sound of seawater, as well as Jefferies’ own soft hum, this siren song does not tempt or threaten, but echoes as a defiant chorus of sex workers speaking back together.
Featuring the voices of Ask Wen, Jude Benoit, Violet Drake, and Mary Magdalene (pseudonym). Installed as part of the solo exhibition pleasuremonger, curated by Emily Critch, at Memorial University’s Grenfell Art Gallery from January to March 2026.
dream zones hormones undertones fish bones (2022-2023)
A dreamlike email exchange between a young trans girl and a foremother in different Atlantic regions at the turn of the millennium.
This sound work was written and composed during an artist residency at Struts Gallery in Sackville, NB within the Sikniktuk district of Mi'kma'ki. Thank you to the team at Struts and to ArtsNL for supporting and fostering its creation.
Installed as part of the group exhibition Let's Connect Tomorrow, curated by Jason Penney and Cyril Butler, at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in St. John's, NL from February to April 2023; HOLD FAST Contemporary Arts Festival in St. John's, NL in August 2023; the group exhibition Le septième pétale d’une tulipe-monstre, curated by Elise Anne LaPlante at Galerie de l'UQAM in Montreal, QC from November 2023 to January 2024; and the group screening DYKELANDS: Queer Art from the Fundy, curated by Lucas Morneau at Temporal Anchorings in Halifax, NS in June 2024.
queer and trans archives in waves (2019)
A sound installation from the collaborative exhibition, A Hole So Big it Became the Sky, with Coco Guzmán and 2SLGBTQIA+ community members, at Eastern Edge Gallery in St. John's, NL from July 6 to August 13, 2019.
Featuring the voices of Roger Baggs, Jude Benoit, Derrick Bishop, Kai Bryan, Cyril Butler, Violet Drake, Sarah-Dena Harnum, Anita Kora, Jennifer McCreath, Chris Shortall, Taylor Stocks, and Jason Wells.
A warm thank you to RetroFlex (Kai Bryan, Jason Wells, and Jason Penney), Rebecca Nolan, Chad Feehan, Dale Jarvis, and Terra Barrett for support and mentorship throughout this project.