Bronwen Jones is an artist and textile repairer.
She is from London, UK and currently based in Amsterdam, NL.
Her artistic practice centres around textile and mending in an expanded sense. She is interested in the stories and traces contained in textiles and in how textile craft knowledge is transmitted over time. Over the last years her main focus has been mending clothing for/with the public as a community-based practice which initiates the sharing of stories and conversations on care, intimacy, value, and ownership. Her work materialises in these interactions, as well as in the resulting textile pieces, publications, and workshops.
She is currently co-organising Textile Initiative, together with Dasha Golova, an initiative that aims to build a network of textile-related practices and welcomes the public to experiment and engage with textile crafts. She sees this project as a continuation of her repair practice, further focusing on repairing social structures by connecting different artists and the public through ideas relating to textile material and craft practices.
Photos by Rebeca Valls
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Bronwen’s practice is kindly supported by the Mondriaan Fund, NL.