New Year, New Face
Happy new year! Happy new lockdown (I think we're on lockdown mark iii, but it is honestly getting hard to tell). What have you done so...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Oct 31, 2020
- 1 min
Beauty is skin deep
Just a quick blog post to share for Halloween. I've been learning how faces build on top of skulls, and as a quick exercise, tried it on...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jun 17, 2020
- 2 min
Bird Skeletons of the world
Skeletons. So often a labour of love. But two years of work at the University of Cambridge Zoology Museum is finally ready to share
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Feb 3, 2020
- 2 min
It's what's under the skin that counts
I love it when a plan comes together. I've finally met all the right people and I'm making progress. I am working on 3D printing a skull...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Aug 16, 2019
- 2 min
New work!
Last month was four weekends of Open Studios - and what fun it was! Visitors included a number of professionals - an archaeologist, an...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jul 11, 2019
- 8 min
In defence of buying a human skeleton
It isn’t about owning a skeleton. It is about access. It is about trust. It is about our shared humanity. It’s about communion with our...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- May 10, 2019
- 1 min
Death Fest 2019!
Death Fest time is here again! Okay, so we never officially called it that. Instead, this month, I've been helping put the final touches...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Apr 17, 2019
- 2 min
Handling death with the death maidens
As arrangements for the Dying for Life event "Things to do when you're dead"* are hotting up, I'm getting out and about talking to people...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Nov 16, 2018
- 1 min
Honey coloured bones
Quick post as I'm up to my eyeballs editing skeleton photos. The local friendly archaeologist has been giving me great access to be able...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jun 20, 2018
- 4 min
What is art for?
So this week, month, and some of this year, and years before, I have been contemplating art. In a classic photographic text, I came...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jun 4, 2018
- 1 min
Help a starving artist
Quick blog post to say things are for sale. Specifically, a first opportunity to see and buy four limited edition images from my...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Mar 18, 2018
- 1 min
Packing for social bones
Quick blog to say sorry for being quiet - I've been manning various events in the Cambridge Science Festival, and now am packing pictures...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Nov 3, 2017
- 1 min
Books for sale - direct!
Looking for the perfect Christmas present for that friend who still wishes it was Halloween? Buy my book! I know I've mentioned this...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Sep 1, 2017
- 2 min
Skeleton day trip to meet the public
Last weekend I had a fantastic afternoon meeting people meeting human bones for the first time. It was a free, drop in workshop organised...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Aug 23, 2017
- 3 min
Where are all the Snicthons?
I had to write with the excitement and urgency of those discussing with flat earthers what they think caused the solar eclipse this week....
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Aug 18, 2017
- 3 min
Meeting a new skull
So last month I had a chance to meet a new skull. And was invited by a pro to "say what I see". Let's see what I can tell you about a...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jun 16, 2017
- 4 min
How the sieve changed the skull (or not)
***Correction to this information - see bottom of blog*** Of all the nightmare fodder I shared on the last post, the question that came...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Jun 9, 2017
- 3 min
The Malice of Raspberry Seeds
Sorry for a period of quiet, I've had a bit of a tooth ache and been trying to book a visit to a dentist. It's all because raspberries...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- May 5, 2017
- 2 min
When I'm dead, I want to go out and meet new people
Through some fantastic luck, a chance meeting a few years ago sparked my interest in skeletons and came together as a superb visit to an...
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Susan Elaine Jones
- Apr 26, 2017
- 4 min
Undiscovered gems of the Cambridge Science Festival… the Duckworth Collection at the LCHES.
18,050* people were at the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies last month. *This figure is an estimate. But I guess that 50...
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