The very still lifes of Poppy and Joseph Jones

Artist Poppy Jones has been reading Tender Buttons, the collection of Cubist poems by the early-20th-century American writer Gertrude Stein. “Her descriptions of everyday objects, and the combination of those descriptions of different objects, are really surreal and kind of create unexpected meanings,” she says. 

Her own artworks take similar subjects: an egg, a jacket, a shirt. They also create unusual stories. Sometimes they are photographs of clothing, altered in Photoshop, printed on…