Statement:
Jones' work explores the materiality of paint in relation to memory. Her most recent paintings primarily utilise cinematic source imagery of 90s romantic comedies and cult classics as a means to address the intangible nature of nostalgia through the constructs of film and painting. Impersonal and personal all at once, they allude to fragmented space whilst conjuring an internalised or other world. Glimpses of bare canvas root the paintings into our physical reality whilst the paint formulates its own; slivers of the imagined and real sit on the surface of the canvas serving as artefacts of the seen and the experienced.
About:
Lucia Jones is a painter based in Wales. Since graduating from Falmouth University in 2014, she has exhibited throughout the UK in solo and group exhibitions including BEEP Painting Prize 2018. Her work is held in private collections in the UK, USA, Austria and Hong Kong.
Past Exhibitions:
2021
Incandescent, Irving Contemporary, Oxford
Without Borders, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2020
Tales from the Cutting Room Floor, Solo Show, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff
Arcade Studio Show, Arcade Campfa, Cardiff
2019
Made in Roath Open, g39, Cardiff
Summer Art Prize, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff
Kings Road Artists, Hearth Gallery, Llandough
Viridis, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff
2018
Scenes from a Daydream, Waterloo Tea Rooms Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff
THE TEN, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
Beep Biennal Painting Prize 2018, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
Woman, The Gate Arts Centre, Cardiff
Flourish, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff
2017
Summer Exhibition, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff
Porthmeor Programme Group Exhibition, Penwith Gallery, St Ives
Back Wall Series, Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales
2016
Desire Lines, Solo show, Penarth Pier Pavilion, Cardiff
David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2016, Mall Galleries, London
2015
Playing With Rules, Broad Gallery, London
Pavilion Open Exhibition, Penarth Pier Pavilion, Cardiff
2014
Pause Collective, Kraak Gallery, Manchester
Degree Show, Falmouth University, Falmouth
Awards/Shortlists:
2020 - Shortlisted Stage 2, John Moores Painting Prize 2020
2019 - Winner, Summer Art Prize, Cardiff M.A.D.E 2019
2018 - Shortlisted, Beep Biennal Painting Prize 2018
2016 - Shortlisted, David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2016
2015 - Winner, The Pavilion Periscope Award, Penarth Pier Pavilion
Education:
2016-17 Porthmeor Programme, Developing Practice, St Ives School of Painting
2011-14 Fine Art BA (Hons), First Class, Falmouth University
2010-11 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Distinction, University of Glamorgan