ABOUT
Lucia Jones is a painter based in Wales. Since graduating from Falmouth University in 2014, she has exhibited globally in solo and group exhibitions including BEEP Painting Prize 2018. 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 collections in the UK, USA, Austria and Hong Kong.
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.
CURRENT / COMING UP
Chairish Gallery, Bergdorf Goodmans, NYC, USA
January 11th- April 2024
Solo exhibition, Irving Contemporary, Oxford, UK
June – July 2024
PAST EXHIBITIONS
2023
Through a Glass Darkly, Visible Records, Charlottesville VA, USA (Joint exhibition with Dylan Williams)
The Art Unit X The Art City Works, York Street Gallery, London
Best of our Solo Art Prize winners exhibition, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff
Made in Roath, G39, Cardiff
Art on a Postcard Summer Auction, Hoxton Gallery, London
A world of her own, Elysium Gallery, Swansea (Joint exhibition with Natasha Morely)
2022
Unity: British & Ukranian Art, The Art Unit, Koppel Projects Space Piccadilly, London
Painting Made Recently in Wales, Lle Projects, Bay Art, Cardiff
A Room of her Own, Irving Contemporary, Oxford
A Woman's Place is Everywhere, The Cello Factory, London
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, Solo show, 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
2023 - Longlisted, Jacksons 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 Biennal Painting Prize 2018
2016 - Shortlisted, David Shepherd Wildlife Artist of the Year 2016
2015 - Winner, The Pavilion Periscope Award, Penarth Pier Pavilion
EDUCATION
2023 - Freeman / Elysium International Art Exchange, Residency
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