When critically acclaimed artist bones tan jones presents a new work at Lost Farm Festival, alternate dimensions and universes will collide and merge in a symphony of forgotten spiritual practice. bones tan jones will arrive a while before the festival to listen to the land and spirits to see this exploration evolve using local materials and craft techniques.

bones tan jones is an eternal storyteller, exploring alternative realities through alter egos, and retellings of ancient Chinese and Celtic mythologies through creating. Raised in a church choir in the northwest of the UK, on the borderlands of mythical Wales and enchanted England, bones tan jones has never strayed far from the ecclesiastic rituals of worship, only that in their world, the church has been burnt, the yew trees thrive in the ashes, and god is trans. 

Through an endless struggle to remain open and receptive, so the ancestors can speak through, bones tan jones has collaborated with the ghosts of dead artists, unknowingly channeled ancient seal script inscriptions of their families’ clan symbol, and sung many a lullaby in the belly of trees thousands of years on this land.

All tools, souvenirs, and tales collected on the way are offered up to you, brave and worthy Lostfarmers.

bones tan jones is a queer heretic whose work traverses materials, disciplines, and timelines. They work through ritual, meditating through craft, dancing through the veil betwixt nature and the other. In their praxis, they weave a mycelial web of diverse, eco-conscious narratives that aim to connect, enthrall, and induce audiences to think more sustainably and ethically. Traversing pop music, sculpture, alter-egos, digital images, and video work, they sanctify these mediums as tools in their craft.

Selected recent commissions and exhibitions include The Sustainable Institution, Rupert Residency Lithuania (2024); Tunnel Visions, Queercircle, London (2022); Portal Spiral Monolith, Well Projects, Margate (2022); The Horror Show! Somerset House, London (2022-23); Myth Makers – Spectrosynthesis III, Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2022-23); Bodies of Water: The 13th Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai (2019); The New Elementals, 7th Athens Biennale (2021); Solo Show at Underground Flower Offsite (2020); Parasites of Pangu, Serpentine Galleries, London (2019).

Photo: Andrej Vasilenko