Ben Jones

Manchester Metropolitan University

Illustrating uncomfortable histories: Telling untold, hidden and ignored stories

Ben Jones is a Manchester based illustrator and educator. He works at Manchester Metropolitan University and is represented by Heart Agency. He uses a mixture of printmaking and collage to create his artworks, as well as drawn elements and line work. He mostly works within editorial contexts with a focus of historical, political, and social subject matter. He works on a monthly column for History Today as well as working regularly with The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Lancet medical journal. Ben illustrated The Folio Society’s edition of The Clockwork Orange and The Secret Agent as well as illustrating The Metamorphosis and select stories of Edgar Allen Poe. He has published a number of short narrative publications with Rotland press USA.