Sarah Jones is a contemporary artist, art historian and curator. Her art practice explores interactions with manufactured and industrial landscapes through painting and installation. She is particularly interested in how Maritime cities and local industrial heritage contribute to notions of regional identity. Her current research examines historical representations of Maritime landscape in historical artwork, questioning the role of historical representations in crafting current social attitudes towards manufactured/industrialized landscape, and how nostalgia for an imagined or ‘Folkish’ past impacts regional identity.

Sarah has participated in solo and group exhibitions across Canada and abroad, and her work is held in the public collections of the University of New Brunswick and the New Brunswick Art Bank. She is a recipient of numerous grants and awards, including funding from ArtsNB and Canada Council for the Arts. 

Sarah is the co-founder and curator of Jones Gallery and Jones Auction House. She has worked with ArtsLink NB on a number of projects, previously coordinating their Catapult Arts Accelerator program and was recently the Curatorial Coordinator for the Arts Atlantic Symposium (Saint John NB, Oct 21-23, 2022). Sarah and her brother Caleb are also the founders of the ARTwork initiative, an ongoing professional development program for Atlantic Canadian visual artists with support from Canada Council for the Arts and the Province of NB.

Sarah received a Master’s degree in Art History from Queen’s University (2009) and teaches art history occasionally at University of New Brunswick in Saint John.

Sarah is based in Saint John, New Brunswick.