Branwen Jones

Branwen Jones’ practice explores the material fabric of everyday life and how histories and politics are embedded within this space. These might be histories of origin, production, trade and use – be it commercial or personal – or future histories of disposal and pollution.

Working across sculpture, drawing, printmaking, animation, and video, Jones’ current work examines the colonial histories of everyday commodities, reflecting on process and material.

The process of casting has for centuries been used to make copies of statues and multiples of industrial goods. Europe eventually managed to decode and copy China’s method for producing porcelain, and then invented semi-porcelain, a cheaper earthenware alternative for mass production. These complex layers of meaning are evoked by numerous rows of blank semi-porcelain goods.