Eva Jonas is a London-based visual artist, educator, and coordinator whose practice operates across multiple registers to examine how the body functions as a site of mediation in our experience, preservation, and enactment of landscape. Her work engages strategies of collecting, restaging, and intervention, often drawing on sculptural forms and research ephemera, such as instructional guides for creative and outdoor practices.
As an educator and coordinator, she engages sensory and enquiry-driven facilitation methodologies, foregrounding the generative potential of collective and networked knowledge production. Through creative place-making, she investigates how acts of observation and recording mediate spatial experience, fostering reflection on modes of inhabitation, documentation, and engagement with place.
Recent exhibitions include (un)common outcomes (Photoworks Festival, 2024) and a solo show, The Natural, Rural and Remote with the workshop Garden Recordings (Serchia Gallery, Bristol, 2023). Her first book, Let’s Sketch the Lay of the Land, was published by September Books in 2020.
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She is currently:
- Continuing on the facilitation of a three-year workshop programme with The Royal Academy’s communities programme
- Facilitating a continuation of Peer Matters, an Artist Development programme supported by Photoworks
- Leading a series of creative walking workshops with Imperial Health Charity
- Coordinating the EPQ in Photography programme at The Photographers’ Gallery
Previously:
- She facilitated the Photoworks West Sussex LGBTQ+ Photography Club from 2020 - 2023
- Was an Associate Artist on Leap Then Look’s Play, Interact, Explore from 2022 to 2023
Eva has also collaborated with organisations including: Camden Art Centre, The Dartington Trust, Henry Moore Studios and Gardens, Queer Heritage South, Aspex Portsmouth, Towner Gallery, The Hummingbird Project, Switchboard, and English Heritage’s national youth engagement programme Shout Out Loud.
Eva is a member of Artist Union England and works to embed trauma-informed approaches into her practice having undertaken three trainings over the past three years in this area, most recently with Kazzum Arts in March 2025.
Image above from 'Image Climbing Frames' looking at gestural points in which legs and hands meet to make human climbing frames as part of a commissioned workshop for Corridor, In This Place, April 2023.
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The students are still talking about the workshop days later. It was such an engaging, inclusive, calm approach that ensured all of the young people could access it at their level.
Tania Banks / Downsview SEN School Brighton, March 2023 as part of PLAY, INTERACT EXPLORE residency at Towner Gallery, Eastbourne.
The LGBTQ+ Photography Club was the first club I'd taken out of school and I was nervous but now it's like a second home - I count down the hours to the next one.
Tilly, Club participant April 2021 - December 2023 Photoworks LGBTQ+ Photography Club