Samantha Jones Email & Phone Number

Blackpool, England, United Kingdom

Artist residency at The Grange to co-create a test bed space for new ideas with local residents for their neighbourhood. Samantha is currently an artist in residence @ The Grange in partnership with LeftCoast exploring Grange Park’s greenspaces and people’s histories. With residents, Samantha is testing ideas to utilize the @ The Grange’s fruit orchards within the estate, along with drawing on the heritage of Symbols Biscuits to develop a range of ice-creams and hand-crafted products. The aim is in prototyping a new community social enterprise is to connect Blackpool’s beach economy to Grange Park, as a catalyst to explore how a community can claim its right to happiness and create a their own Grangetopia.

Mentor to social entrepreneurs to support the scaling up of creative community businesses

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Community led, cultural, environmental and educational social business. Using creative processes within community regeneration, horticulture, technology & brewing.

Bidston, England, United Kingdom

Lead research pilot ' Affiliates' to re-imaging BOARC's democratic infrastructure. Working with commissioned Affiliates to develop their own research project, while collectively exploring approaches to the future steering BOARC.

Barrow-In-Furness, England, United Kingdom

Samantha was artist in residence at ART GENE’s REAL Barrow ‘Allotment Soup’. Where she, together with local residents, built and grew a live fabricated living communal space using mycelium spores. A living g space for producing, eating, sharing, discussing, and creating a manifesto of how we can develop a resilient substrate with a caring system, so we and the natural environment can grow, live and flourish together sustainably - On The FieldThis artists residency was a live research and development to explore, experiment, discuss and collaborate in growing furniture from fungus’s living root system, mycelium. Mycelium is a network of fungal threads that connect to form a sustainable and eco-friendly bio fabrication material when grown within a substrate allowing it to colonize and obtain its nourishment. During the initial R&D test period, Samantha began to spend time with the different people who work on Allotment Soup, also known as ‘The Field’, to understand it’s ephemeral and seasonal nature. Observing, talking, working and listening. Ove this period, it became apparent, that there was not only a natural system growing on the field, but also a human system of people working on it in tandem, together, and caring each other. Art Gene, allotment holders and migrant volunteers, on their way, hopefully to their new permanent home. All making their mark on the field and sharing a communal understanding of the work needed care for it, without sharing a common language. So, Samantha began to create a ‘language of the field’, translating commonly used words that are used when growing food into codex to be used both functionally and also to grow and embed within the living furniture as a living testament of the people who have become part it, until like all things natural the furniture degrades and is put back int the soil to nourish it.

Felixstowe

Between May and July 2023 Resident Artist Samantha Jones and Natalie Pace, Curator of Pier Projects, were on ‘ On_Convalescence. Together, we they explored how as cultural professionals, funders, commissioners and practitioners, we can create a caring ecology, that looks after the wellbeing of each other and along with our communities? In this ‘post’ covid context, we wanted to share our thinking, make and break bread together and explore with you; How do we tackle our burn out, heal, come together and convalesce productively for us to continue to care? How can we claim ‘Right to Wellbeing’ (Kropotkin)? Can we together radicalize the concept of wellbeing? Can we bring co-creative practices into models of care and wellbeing? And what models of care are needed within our local context, to deal with immediate needs and how can this impact wider fields of practice? Culminating in a day of sharing, workshopping, discussion and eating together offering artists and arts workers time and space to reconnect to their practice, one another and consider collective wellbeing

Nelson Lancashire

Artist Researcher exploring alternative economies to reimagine the town of Nelson

Anfield, Liverpool

Samantha Jones lived in Anfield, Liverpool and was a co-director of Homebaked Community Land Trust (CLT). Samantha led urban green space initiatives, education and volunteer programmes along with writing and delivering a successful 45k People's Health Trust programme. She was Homebakeds’ embedded PhD researcher since the projects initiation as a Liverpool Biennial commission and she is a practicing artist working in the area of food anthropology, environmental technologies and alternative economics. She has been pie ambassador, led training and hosted community celebration public food events at Homebaked co-operative .

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Samantha Jones held a PhD scholarship at Liverpool John Moores University in collaboration with the Liverpool Biennial, researching the intersection of regeneration, wellbeing, public art commissioning and public engagement. Samantha programmed mediation for the International Biennial festival 2010 and is currently the embedded researcher within the Liverpool Biennial’s 2Up2Down projects led Jeanne van Heeswijk the winner of the 2011 Leonore Annenberg Prize for Art and Social Change.

Syria

The form of sanctions can go beyond economic and political, to western educational institutions resistance to sanction the physical participation of educationalist/artist/researchers to undertake residencies in areas of conflict. In response, Samantha Jones through her artistic and curatorial project ‘Hospitable Discords’collaborated with AllArtNow to develop and deliver alternative platforms for artistic pedagogy through the negotiation of virtual and temporary counter-public spheres.Samantha Jones was also invited to take part in the ‘Moblie Art School Athens‘ to host a critically timed discourse between Syrian and Greek artists and curators within the multi-nodal counter-public sphere of three temporary art schools; AllArtNow ‘Studio 1′ Damascus, Liverpool School of Art and Design’s ‘Mobile Art School Athens’ and Athens Biennial ‘Public Art School’.AllArtNow began life in 2005 in reaction to limiting factors facing artists and other contemporary cultural practitioners in today’s Syria. AllArtNow recently launched their new Contemporary Art School programme “Studio 1″ under the title of “In Need”.‘”Studio 1″ contiues to be a response the current conditions of society’s need to engage artist actors in the process of building community. With the increasing obstacles, our conviction has increased the urgent need for an artist to interact with their society. Therefore we believe in the importance of establishing contemporary art studies in Syria and create opportunities for the artist to play their role in development and social change.’ Abir Boukhari – Director AllArtNow

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Advisor for embedding creative pedogogical and evaluation process within UK primary and secondary school.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Liverpool, United Kingdom

- Progamme Manager and artist lead of Wellcome Trust's Sonic Stream public art and educational research programme. Reseaching the impact of sound on patients within clinical environments through the curation of sound art, public performances research symposia.- Project lead FACT's 'Waiting' programme - Curation of sound art within medical wating aeas.

Multimedia Arts Masters, Digital Arts

Phd, Public Art - Practice And Theory