[1] She gained international recognition in the mid 1990s coinciding with the completion of her MA in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College in London in 1996.
Jones was also involved in the 1999 show Another Girl, Another Planet[2] along with 9 other female artists, curated by Crewdson and Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn at the Van Doren Gallery in New York City.
[3] Other artists involved in the show included Anna Gaskell, Katy Grannan, Malerie Marder, Justine Kurland.
[4] Another review from The New York Times, published in 1999, describes the show as dreamy and erotically charged, "Justine Kurland's wide-screen color pictures of gangs of unsupervised girls at play in the woods, Katy Grannan's portraits of teen-agers posed in their underwear in their bedrooms, Sarah Jones' big Pre-Raphaelite-esque image of pensive twins in a backyard garden or Malerie Marder's vision of a girl in a bikini floating on a pool raft, you feel the mood of dreamy, erotically charged vagrancy by which the photographers themselves seem to be so fruitfully possessed.
[8] Her Flower series is heavily influenced by the gothic era, pulling inspiration from the aesthetics of that time to create 'Victorian rose gardens' and rich mysterious colors and darkness.
[6] Huis Marseille, Museum for Photography, Amsterdam, the Netherlands[12] Centre for Photography, University of Salamanca, Spain[citation needed] Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain[13] Jerwood Space, London[14] Jones' work is held in the following permanent collections: