Sarah Britten-Jones

Sarah is an artist, academic, design researcher and PhD Candidate at the Royal College of Art. She gained her MFA (Master of Fine Art) in Ceramic Art from the New York State College of Ceramics, Alfred University in 2007 and has taught art and design subjects at universities in the USA and UK since 2005. Sarah was a member of Open Hand Open Space Artist Studios in Reading for 12 years, and currently teaches at Oxford Brookes University School of Arts as a Senior Lecturer in Design. She has exhibited across the USA and the UK with a project based and frequently collaborative art and design practice, including recently with the artist Jon Lockhart. Sarah has worked with others in the public realm to create interactive performance and sculpture in response to institutional, social, and historical environments. She currently uses participatory and speculative design research methods to visualise and embody systems and feedback processes within institutions. Since 2017, with her practice-based research at the RCA she has created speculative institutional props that propose alternative futures and relations within universities. Reading, Oxford, London, UK