ABOUT
Lucia Jones is a prize-winning Welsh painter. Since graduating from Falmouth University, she has exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions including BEEP Painting Prize 2018 and 2024. She has also been long listed for a number of art prizes such as John Moores 2020, Jacksons Art Prize 2022 and 2023. Her work is currently held in private and public collections including Australia, Austria, Hong Kong, Mexico, UK and USA.
Jones’ practice explores memory and perception of self through the constructs of paint and film. Primarily utilising cinematic source imagery from obscure 1950s-90s b-movies, she addresses the intangible nature of memory and the shifting impressions of lived moments. Re-contextualising women from these sources, the paintings form a series of anonymised figures occupying fractured and fabricated environments. Liberated from their original medium and plains of existence, they are absorbed into the painted realm developed throughout her oeuvre; their context reconstructed and their world shaped around them, they act as cyphers to the experienced - to be glimpsed and examined.
Jones is also the founder of Occupata, a curatorial entity that is artist-first that connects artists with collectors.
Lucia Jones, lives and works in Cardiff, Wales.
EDUCATION
2014 Fine Art BA (Hons), First Class, Falmouth University
CURRENT/UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
Beep 2024 ~ Do Androids Dream, Oriel Croesor, Wales, UK
Opens April 27th, 2025
The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Wrexham
Opens August 2nd - August 9th, 2025
Elysium Gallery/Volcano, Swansea, UK
2026
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 Spectacle, Solo Exhibition, Irving Gallery, Oxford, UK Exhibition Catalogue / Shop Here
2020 Tales from the Cutting Room Floor, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff, UK
2016 Desire Lines, Penarth Pier Pavilion, Cardiff, UK
DUO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Through a Glass Darkly, Visible Records, Charlottesville VA, USA (Joint exhibition with Dylan Williams)
A world of her own, Elysium Gallery, Swansea (Joint exhibition with Natasha Morely)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Intersum, Occupata x Oriel Canfas, UK
Art on a Postcard Auction for International Womens Day, The Bomb Factory Marleybone, London, UK
2024 Beep Painting Prize 2024, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK
Among Women Vol I., Occupata x Art Market Cardiff, UK
Arcade Studios Cardiff, Art Market Cardiff, UK
Chairish x Bergdorf Goodmans, NYC, USA
2023 The Art Unit X The Art City Works, York Street Gallery, London, UK
Best of our Solo Art Prize winners exhibition, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff, UK
Trails, Turner House, Cardiff, UK
Made in Roath, g39, Cardiff, UK
Art on a Postcard Summer Auction, Hoxton Gallery, London, UK
2022 Unity: British & Ukranian Art, The Art Unit, Koppel Projects Space Piccadilly, London, UK
Painting Made Recently in Wales, Lle Projects, Bay Art, Cardiff, UK
A Room of her Own, Irving Gallery, Oxford, UK
A Woman's Place is Everywhere, The Cello Factory, London, UK
2021 Incandescent, Irving Contemporary, Oxford, UK
Without Borders, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK
2020 Arcade Studio Show, Arcade Campfa, Cardiff, UK
2019 Made in Roath Open, g39, Cardiff, UK
Summer Art Prize, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff, UK
Kings Road Artists, Hearth Gallery, Llandough, UK
2018 THE TEN, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol, UK
Beep Biennal Painting Prize 2018, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK
Woman, The Gate Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK
2017 Summer Exhibition, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff, UK
Porthmeor Programme Group Exhibition, Penwith Gallery, St Ives, UK
Back Wall Series, Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen, UK
2016 David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2016, Mall Galleries, London, UK
2015 Playing With Rules, Broad Gallery, London, UK
Pavilion Open Exhibition, Penarth Pier Pavilion, Cardiff, UK
2014 Pause Collective, Kraak Gallery, Manchester, UK
Degree Show, Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK
SELECTED AWARDS
2025 Longlisted, Jacksons Art Prize 2025
2024 Longlisted, Beep Biennial Painting Prize 2024
2023 Longlisted, Jacksons Art Prize 2023
2023 Longlisted Women United Art Prize 2023
2022 Longlisted, Jacksons Art Prize 2022
2020 Shortlisted Stage 2, John Moores Painting Prize 2020
2019 Winner, Summer Art Prize, Cardiff M.A.D.E 2019
2018 Shortlisted, Beep Biennial Painting Prize 2018
2016 Shortlisted, David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2016
2015 Winner, The Pavilion Periscope Award, Penarth Pier Pavilion
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2023 Freeman / Elysium International Art Exchange, Residency
2017 Porthmeor Programme, Developing Practice, St Ives School of Painting