Emma Jones writes essays, criticism and experimental non-fiction.

She uses art as a lens to write about feminism, baths, existentialism, zen, sex, domestic spaces, internet culture, voids and gestures.

Her nature writing examines the relationship between human and landscape, with an interest in tidal spaces, mercurial creatures, rhododendrons and husbandry.

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“He checked the charts fastidiously and, for one year, ran to a lunar clock.”

“By chance, I started with Hulda. The chameleon. A predator.”

“7 a.m. in Kelso is the smell of disinfectant and hay. It's bacon and egg sandwiches from tiny food trucks. It’s the animal heat rising soft from pens inside huge canvas tents.”

“We’re in Ljubljana airport in the early afternoon and I am sat next to a nearly assembled bike and a nearly empty cardboard box.”

Emma has been writer in residence at the Jan Machoski Foundation, the Hugo Burge Foundation and with the New Forest National Park Authority. She was formerly Assistant Curator of Photography at Tate Modern and has been long-listed for The Observer Anthony Burgess Prize in Arts Journalism. In 2025 Emma won DYCP funding from Arts Council England.

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