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.
Past Exhibitions:
2021 - Without Borders, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2020 - Tales from the Cutting Room Floor, Solo Show, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff
2020 - Arcade Studio Show, Arcade Campfa, Cardiff
2019 - Made in Roath Open, g39, Cardiff
2019 - Summer Art Prize, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff
2019 - Kings Road Artists, Hearth Gallery, Llandough
2019 - Viridis, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff
2018 - Scenes from a Daydream, Waterloo Tea Rooms Wyndham Arcade, Cardiff
2018 - THE TEN, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol
2018 - Beep Biennal Painting Prize 2018, Elysium Gallery, Swansea
2018 - Woman, The Gate Arts Centre, Cardiff
2018 - Flourish, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff
2017 - Summer Exhibition, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff
2017 - Porthmeor Programme Group Exhibition, Penwith Gallery, St Ives
2017 - Back Wall Series, Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales
2016 - Desire Lines, Solo show, Penarth Pier Pavilion, Cardiff
2016 - David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2016, Mall Galleries, London
2015 - Playing With Rules, Broad Gallery, London
2015 - Pavilion Open Exhibition, Penarth Pier Pavilion, Cardiff
2014 - Pause Collective, Kraak Gallery, Manchester
2014 - Degree Show, Falmouth University, Falmouth
Awards:
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