BIOGRAPHY
Jennifer Jones is a textiles-based conceptual artist, making work around themes of nostalgia, family memories and the domestic. Since graduating BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins with First Class Honours in 2022, she has received recognitions including The Ingram Prize Founder's Choice Award (2025), Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2023) and the New Futures Graduate Art Prize (2022). Jones has been an artist in residence at The Sarabande (Lee Alexander McQueen) Foundation, Acme Studios, and the Associate Studio Programme. Her work has received recognition in publications such as Italian Vogue, FAD Magazine and Luxury London. Jones has participated in various exhibitions across the UK and international venues including Selfridges, South London Gallery, Camden Arts Centre, Maakhaven (NL) and the exhibition space at City University Hong Kong.
Jones' practice is rooted in the transformation of family photo archives. Through processes of redaction, re-composition, scale alteration and reconstruction of personal imagery, Jones creates imagined scenarios and characters which are simultaneously real and invented. Often taking the form of textiles, reminiscent of domestic household objects (clothing, curtains, rugs, tapestries), the work examines nostalgia, memory and ‘rose-tinted’ pasts. By inviting audiences to contemplate secrecy and what’s kept private within the home, Jones asks us to consider how we construct and curate our own familial narratives.
Alongside her personal practice, Jones founded 'Grafters Collective', a support network for artists from working-class backgrounds and/or who have faced barriers to the art world.
b. 1999, Chelmsford, England
EDUCATION
2019-2022, BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, London
2021, Erasmus BA Fine Art, Royal Academy of Art, The Hague
2018-2019, BA Fashion Styling and Production, London College of Fashion, London
2017-2018, Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Central Saint Martins, London
2017, Insights into FE, UAL Outreach Programme, London
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2025 The Ingram Prize Founder's Choice Award
2025 Grafters Collective residency with Acme Studios
2024 Sarabande (the Lee Alexander McQueen) Foundation
2024 The Eaton Fund Grant Recipient
2024 New Emergence Art Prize (shortlisted)
2023 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, London
2023 Associate Studio Programme, Acme Studios, London
2022 New Futures Graduate Art Prize, Saatchi Art, London
2022 Sid Motion Gallery Prize, London (shortlisted)
2022 School of Speculation- the Design Museum, South London Gallery and Koppel Project
2021 'Craft Matters in a Digital Society'- City University Hong Kong, Zurich University of Arts and UAL
PRESS
EXHIBITIONS
Solo/Duo:
2025 'Between Studios' 1B Window Gallery, London
2025 'Home Truths' 11 Eastgate, Exeter
Group:
2025 The Ingram Prize 10th Edition, Unit 1 Workshop Gallery, London
2025 'Sincerely' Sarabande Foundation, London
2025 'Pinpoint' Sarabande Foundation, London
2025 'Glimpses of the Guestroom', Chilli Gallery, London
2025 'Family Portrait' (curator and participating artist) Sarabande Foundation, London
2025 'Home Is Where The Art Is' (curator and participating artist), Grafters Collective, Hypha Studios, London
2025 'House of Bandits X Selfridges Pop-up' Selfridges, London
2025 'Homesick' Sarabande Foundation, London
2025 'Through the Splinters' Silian Gallery, London
2025 'A Thousand Pointed Star' Teaspoon Projects, London
2024 'Thresholds of Perception' Acme Studios, London
2024 'Introducing Grafters Collective' The Peckham Pelican, London
2024 'Things Are More Than They Are' Acme Studios, London
2024 'Bloomberg New Contemporaries' Camden Art Centre, London
2023 'The Fronteer Open 2023' sponsored by Curator Space, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield
2023 'Lingering Memories' Fox Yard Studio, Stowmarket
2023 'A Momentary Bond' St.art Gallery at the Koppel Project Space, London
2023 'Bloomberg New Contemporaries' Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
2022 ‘School SOS_2022’ South London Gallery, London
2022 ‘Anywhere Inbetween’ The Tub, London
2022 ‘The Other Art Fair’ solo booth, Saatchi Art, London
2022 ‘CSM Shows’ Central Saint Martins, London
2022 ‘AR(T) Futures: Behind the Frame’ St.art Gallery at Gallery Different, London
2021 ‘Craft Matters in a Digital Society’ City University Hong Kong, Kowloon
2021 ‘Autonom Stage Two’ Maakhaven, The Hague
2018 ‘Foundation End of Year Show’ Lethaby Gallery, London