bones tan jones (b. Liverpool) is a queer heretic whose work traverses materials, disciplines and timelines. Raised in a church choir in the northwest of the UK, on the borderlands of mythical Wales and enchanted England, tan jones’s work has never strayed far from the ecclesiastic rituals of worship, only in tan jones’s world, the church has been burnt, the yew trees thrive in the ashes, and god is trans. bones tan jones presents their living praxis ‘optimystic dystopia’ as a spiritual practice. An eternal storyteller, they explore alternative realities through alter egos, retelling ancient Chinese and Celtic mythologies through creating symphonies, operas, psalms, triptychs, sigils, stele, installations, interventions and inter-active workshops.
Will Pham is a British-Vietnamese artist working in video, live performance and socially engaged practice. His work explores intergenerational care, cultural inheritance, community building and refugee narratives within the UK. Will Pham graduated from the Postgraduate Fine Art programme at the Royal Academy Schools in 2018 and BA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design in 2013.
He was an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art in 2023, teaching his own unit ‘Archives On the Move’ as part of Urgency of the Arts. He was invited as Visiting Lecturer at Goldsmiths University, BA Fine Art & History of Art, in Spring 2024. Solo exhibitions and commissions include VMHS Legacy Project, Vietnamese Mental Health Services (2023), Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery (2022), Rokoko, Skelf (2021), Record, Retrieve, Reactivate, CFCCA (2020), Little Vietnam, Turf Projects (2019) and RA Schools Show, Royal Academy Schools (2018).