Sarah Jones

Sarah Jones (born 1959) is a British visual artist working primarily in photography. Her practice is rooted in art history, and she draws influence from topics such as psychoanalysis, adolescence, and the Victorian period. curated by Gregory Crewdson and involving 12 other contemporary photographers.

Another Girl, Another Planet

Jones was also involved in the 1999 show Another Girl, Another Planet Other artists involved in the show included Anna Gaskell, Katy Grannan, Malerie Marder, Justine Kurland.

Another review from The New York Times, published in 1999, describes the show as dreamy and erotically charged, "Justine Kurland's wide-screen color pictures of gangs of unsupervised girls at play in the woods, Katy Grannan's portraits of teen-agers posed in their underwear in their bedrooms, Sarah Jones' big Pre-Raphaelite-esque image of pensive twins in a backyard garden or Malerie Marder's vision of a girl in a bikini floating on a pool raft, you feel the mood of dreamy, erotically charged vagrancy by which the photographers themselves seem to be so fruitfully possessed. "

Influences Jones enjoys photography for its capability to scrutinize something, freezing a moment to look more closely at it. "Perhaps photography allows us to daydream; reverie is where time seems to stretch out." These ideas of psychoanalysis were explored in her series of photos of psychoanalyst couches. She wanted to explore the spaces that allowed for people to re-live experiences and loosen the grip that their past has on them. Her Flower series is heavily influenced by the gothic era, pulling inspiration from the aesthetics of that time to create 'Victorian rose gardens' and rich mysterious colors and darkness.

She is also influenced by the Victorian cultural obsession with photographing hair, 2007 Sarah Jones: Photographs, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, UK 2000 Le Consortium, Dijon, (as part of I Love Dijon), France (C)

Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, the Netherlands 1999 Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (C)

Centre for Photography, University of Salamanca, Spain

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

Jerwood Space, London 1998 École des Beaux-Arts, Tours, France 1997 Le Consortium, Dijon, France 1995 (Office Départemental de Développement Culturel, Mission Arts Plastiques)

Collections Jones' work is held in the following permanent collections: Arts Council Collection, London Goetz Collection, Germany Government Art Collection, UK Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, the Netherlands San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA Science Museum Group, UK Tate, London Victoria and Albert Museum, London