Branwen Jones

Jones’ current practice explores the material fabric of everyday life as a site of politics. She is interested in the histories and social relations that are embedded within materials. These might be histories of origin, production and transformation, of trade and circulation, of commercial or personal use, as well as future histories of disposal or pollution. She explores how making work using collected materials from everyday life entails an engagement with material histories and material politics.

Jones creates work in a range of media including drawing, stop-frame animation, sculpture, printmaking, and site-specific installation. She often uses materials which are found, collected or given. Recent materials have included newspaper, plastic, bottle-tops, floorboards, window panes, tissue-paper, wire, wax, cotton, turmeric, milk, charcoal. Her desire to learn and improvise skills of physical making is a critical response to a world which is increasingly mediated through the screen.