Stuart Jones

Stuart Jones has been working as an artist for over twenty years. He is a British artist originally from the North West of England but is now living and working out of a studio in Hertfordshire, near to London. He studied Fine Art at Leeds Metropolitan University. He is interested in the environment and the way we view and experience it. He is a painter working mainly in oil paint and mixed media on canvas. His work is informed by the urban and rural landscape and ideas of utopia, dystopia and the sublime.
He is currently a fellow at Digswell arts and was shortlisted for the Beep Painting Prize (2022) and John Moores Painting Prize (2020) and was awarded the Contemporary Arts Trust Prize (2019). He has artwork in private collections in the UK, USA and Berlin and has exhibited nationally and internationally, recent exhibitions include:
2023 ‘A Fractured Glimpse’ Joint show, Digswell Arts, Letchworth Garden City
2023 ‘New Wave’, Spitalfields Studio, London, E1 5NF
2022 ‘New Paintings’ Solo show, Digswell Arts Gallery, Letchworth Garden City
2022 The Beep Painting Prize, Elysium Gallery, Swansea.
2022 The Other Art Fair, The Old Truman Brewery, London.
2021 ‘Push and the Land’ Pineapple Black Project Space, Middlesbrough
2021 ‘Loo...

2019 Collage into mixed media- Slade school of Art and Design
2017 Cultural Studies: Identity and Self- City Lit, London
2016 100 Drawing Projects- Central St Martins
2014 Mixed Media Printmaking- Central St Martins
2013 Experimental Oil painting- Chelsea school of Art and Design
PGCE in Post Compulsory Education- Greenwich University
BA Hons Fine Art- Leeds Metropolitan University
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design- Winstanley College
A-Level Art and Design- Winstanley College

Prizes and Awards

2022 Shortlisted for the Beep Painting Prize
2020 Shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize
2019 Awarded the Contemporary Arts Trust award
2018 Shortlisted for the Artzine Art Prize
2017 Shorlisted for the Lynn Painter- Stainers Prize
2017 ‘Highly Commended’ for the annual awards for Red Line Art Works

Group exhibitions


2024 ‘artwalks’ @artwalks.xyz, Letchworth Garden City and Northampton
2024 ‘Open Call’, Phoney Collective, Gallery Lock in, Brighton
2024 ‘Work in Progress’, Digswell Arts Gallery, Fenners Building, Letchworth Garden City
2023 ‘A Fractured Glimpse’ Joint show, Digswell Arts, Letchworth Garden City
2023 ‘New Wave’, Spitalfields Studio, London
2022 ‘New Paintings’ Solo show, Digswell Arts Gallery, Letchworth Garden City
2022 The Beep Painting Prize, Elysium Gallery, Swansea.
2022 The Other Art Fair, The Old Truman Brewery, London.
2021 ‘Push and the Land’ Pineapple Black Project Space, Middlesbrough
2021 ‘Looks like it’s gunna rain’, Cambridge
2021 ‘A Voyage of Absurdity’ The Forgets, Craft Central, London
2020 'Emergent Vision' Safehouse 1 and 2, Copeland road, Peckham, London
2019 Manchester Art Fair
2019 Artrooms Art Fair London, Regent's Park, London
2018 ‘The Salamander Devours its T...