Fence Folklore
Screen-Printed, Digitally Printed, Embossed
2026
Fence Folklore is an artistic publication utilising the gritty urban structures of metal railings and fences around the city of Bath, more specifically, the characterisation of bent metal railings. The juxtaposition of narratives about what is celebrated and what is shamed in architecture in a city crowded with tourists leads to the making of pieces about this. The variety of print techniques and papers is intended to reflect the combination of materials employed in our contemporary streetscape to protect, contain, and direct us. The books are a limited edition, as only 15 were created, and many of the pages and pieces were hand-printed and hand-sewn together. By looking at prominent artists such as Guy Bigland, whose books index characters and words on public signs, and Mathieu Tremblin, whose typographical translation of graffiti into legible characters, Jones began incorporating text and words alongside photography. This experimentation led to the creation of ‘Fence Folklore’, a series of poems, writings, and photographs in book form that characterise and create fantasy stories about the metal railings in Bath.
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