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bones tan jones (b.93 Liverpool) is a queer heretic whose work traverses materials, disciplines and time lines.

raised in a church choir in the northwest of the UK, on the borderlands of mythical Wales and enchanted England, tan jones’s work has ne'er strayed far from the ecclesiastic rituals of worship, only in tan jones’s world, the church has been burnt, the yew trees thrive in the ashes, and god is trans. 

bones tan jones presents their living praxis ‘optimystic dystopia’ as a spiritual practice. an eternal storyteller, alternative realities are explored through alter egos, retellings of ancient Chinese and Celtic mythologies through creating;

symphonies/operas/psalms/triptychs/sigils/stele/installations/interventions/inter-active workshops.