Emma Fiona Jones

Email: Emma.Jones@stonybrook.edu

Emma Fiona Jones is an installation and textile artist whose work explores the relationship between embodiment and environment through the synthesis of organic and inorganic materials. Drawing together traditional markers of femininity such as velvet and beads with materials such as barbed wire and decaying fruit, she questions the ways in which the flesh and the psyche are perpetually transformed and rewritten.

Jones’ work is deeply rooted in ecofeminist and French feminist theory. She is inspired by the work of scholars such as Silvia Federici, Hélène Cixous, and Julia Kristeva, who examine the body and its relationship to the material world. Using dried plants, fungi, pine resin, soil, moss, salt, and other organic matter, Jones investigates the interactivity of bodies and ecosystems. She often uses the pomegranate as a symbol of femininity, violence, (in)fertility, and decay. Through her work, she strives to articulate the connection between violence toward the Earth and toward the bodies of women and femmes.

Jones received a BA in Art History and Women's Studies from Vassar College in 2019. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Studio Art at Stony Brook University, where she is also an instructor of record. She received the Dorothy G. Pieper Award in 2023, and the Sunwood Student Art Award in 2022 and 2023.