The centenary of the 1919 Addison Act, which enable local authorities to build high quality housing for working people is celebrated in a series of illustrations by Emma Jones. Exhibited in the Sheffield Modern Architecture Weekender, the illustrations shine new light onto Sheffield’s rich legacy of social housing from 1920s estates at
Norwood, Brushes and Stubbin to world famous Park Hill.
Heavily inspired by nostalgia, music and architecture, Jones mainly works with collage, incorporating found imagery and ephemera into her work. She calls herself an “illustrator and paper hoarder” and is an avid collector of found images, funky textures, colours and knick knacks.
Her recent practice has been exploring animation through GIFs and short films, and she enjoys the collaborative work she has done over the past year.
Exhibited in the Sheffield Modern Architecture Weekender, a series of illustrations look to shine new light onto Sheffield’s rich legacy of social housing. Collage and photomontage, 2019
Illustration from ABC book for early learners which looks at teaching children the alphabet with fantastical creatures in an unconventional way, through illustrations juxtaposing human and animal features. Collage and digital photomontage, 2020
Illustration from ABC book for early learners. Collage and digital photomontage, 2020
Illustration for a collaborative zine which describes people’s unique experiences of lockdown. Collage and digital photomontage, 2020
Speculative editorial illustration, collage and digital photomontage, 2020
Speculative editorial illustration, collage and digital photomontage, 2020
"A collaborative project with fellow illustrator Jasmine Freemantle. Focussing on community reportage during the Covid-19 Lockdown. Tackling subject matter we don’t usually work with, we challenged ourselves to randomly select locations to draw to see the differences in the exact same places. Here I have shown my responses to the project."
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