Bronwen Jones - UK/NETHERLANDS

“Bronwen Jones is a British artist and textile repairer, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2020. 

Her art practice centres on the concept of mending, beginning from the simple and caring act of mending clothing and expanding to consider how to mend our relationship with ourselves, the environment, and our community. 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 aims to encourage a slower, more considered way of living and to revitalise traditional textile techniques.

Additionally she is co-organiser of Textile Initiative, together with Dasha Golova, an event series based in Amsterdam that aims to bring together community through textile craft and to expand on the scope and potential of textile practices. She sees this role 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.”

- Taken from Bronwen Jones

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