Eva Jonas is a London-based visual artist and educator whose practice explores the body as a site of mediation in our experience and enactment of landscape. Her work employs collecting, restaging, and intervention, often incorporating sculptural forms and research ephemera such as instructional guides for creative and outdoor practices.
As an educator, she uses sensory and enquiry-led facilitation to foreground collective knowledge-making. By engaging in creative, place-based practices, she explores how acts of seeing and recording inform how we perceive, dwell in, and connect with environments..
Recent projects include The Natural, Rural and Remote with Garden Recordings (solo, Serchia Gallery, 2023) and (un)common outcomes (Photoworks Festival, 2024). Her first book, Let’s Sketch the Lay of the Land, was published by September Books in 2020.
Currently:
Facilitating Queer Grounds, an LGBTQ+ Photography Club with Photoworks
Leading creative walking workshops with Imperial Health Charity
Programme assistant on the EPQ in Photography programme at The Photographers’ Gallery
Previously:
Facilitated a three-year workshop programme with the Royal Academy’s communities programme and Look Ahead
Facilitated Peer Matters, an artist development programme with Photoworks
Associate Artist for Leap Then Look’s Play, Interact, Explore (2022–2023)
She has collaborated with Camden Art Centre, The Dartington Trust, Henry Moore Studios, Queer Heritage South, Aspex Portsmouth, Towner Gallery, The Hummingbird Project, Switchboard, and English Heritage’s Shout Out Loud.
Eva is a member of Artist Union England and embeds trauma-informed approaches into her practice, having completed three trainings over the past three years, most recently with Kazzum Arts (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