Stuart Jones

Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

About Stuart Jones

I am interested in the environment and the way we view and experience it. My work is informed by the urban and rural landscape and ideas of utopia, dystopia and the sublime. I create work exploring reality within environments and our relationship with them. I am intrigued by places and spaces that exist within our lives and ideas around natural disasters, climate change and current social and political issues. I use a wide range of contemporary and traditional painting and drawing media from oil paint and mediums to household paint and spray paint, working the paint surface of the canvas flat on the floor or on the wall. My work explores our relationships and connections with the landscape and how this is consistently in flux. My process varies and evolves over time but generally starts with drawings, images and collages that I have manipulated and experimented with using photocopying. We are increasingly disconnected from our environment due to technological advancement and in a consistent conflict with the natural world due to the way we live. I approach my work with these ideas and thoughts with the hope that they gain traction in the spaces in the work. The human presence is missing from my paintings enabling the viewer to become the missing human presence within the work, the spaces becoming portals that the viewer has to negotiate into another world, space or time.

Education:

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

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Prizes and Awards
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
2019 Artrooms Art Fair London, 11-13 January, Melia White House Hotel, Albany St, Regent's Park, London, NW1 3UP
2018 ‘The Salamander Devours its Tail Twice’, Gallery 46, Whitechapel, London, 46 Ashfield St, London E1 2AJ
17th November to 5th December 2018.
‘The Salamander Devours its Tail Twice’ brings together twenty-eight artists figuring out what it means to be human. Each artist oscillates between self-understanding and cultural expectation. Located somewhere in the middle, they create an extension of themselves, a mirror from which they may better understand their position in the present, relation to the past, and anxieties around the future
2018 Thoughtful Planet 2, The Thought Foundation, Gateshead
2017 Creative Reactions, Pint of Science event, Cambridge
2016 Creative Reactions, Pint of Science event, Cambridge
2015 Mark 5 group exhibition, Courtyard arts, Hertford, Hertfordshire
2015 Creative Reactions, Pint of Science event, Cambridge
2015 Courtyard arts Open, Hertford, Hertfordshire
2015 'Exhibition One' by Mark 5, Banbury, Oxfordshire
2014 Pop up exhibition, Christopher Place, St Albans
2013 One plus one, Hitchin
2013 Cities: All Dimensions Takarska Gallery, London
2009 Unique Perspectives, Chapel gallery, Lancashire
2009 St Albans Summer Art Exhibition, Town Hall, St Albans
2008 United Society of Artists Annual Exhibition, Morley Gallery, London
2008 Cityscape vs Rural landscape, Claire Galleries, Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
2006 Pantiles Edge Gallery, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
2005 Whitespace Gallery, Greenwich, London
2004 Field of Vision: New York, The Lab Gallery, New York
2004 Manhattan Series, Sesame Art Gallery, Islington, London
2003 Arterial Gallery, Highbury, London
2002 Life Gallery, Colchester
2001 art/work, artco, Leeds
2001 Leedscape, Snow Gallery, Leeds
2000 Art and Architecture, The Beetroot Tree, Derbyshire
2000 Ridkebvush Arts Exhibition, The Aartvaark Gallery, Dewsbury
2000 Floorless, Victorian Quarter, Leeds
2000 Images of Architecture, Arc, London
2000 Multividence, Keighley Arts Factory, West Yorkshire
1999 Untitled, Crossfield Mill, Rochdale
1998 Graduate 98, Stroud House Gallery, Stroud

Solo exhibitions
2003 Manhattan Series, The Peasant, Clerkenwell, London
2001 Simpsons Fold Series, Simpsons Fold, Leeds
2001 Linear Series, BRB Bar/Restaurant, Harrogate
2001 Linear Series, BRB Bar/Restaurant, Leeds
2000 Park Row Series, Teatro, Leeds
1999 Innovation, Belmayne House, Sheffield
1999 Linear and Shadow Series, Quo Vadis, Leeds
1999 Untitled, Robert Mason, Leeds
1999 Untitled, Victorian Quarter, Leeds

Commissions, loans and residencies
2008 Prints of Linear I and VI featured on BBC sit com, 'My Family'
2003 Linear III hired by MGM Studios to feature in film, ‘White on White’
2003 Linear I, II, III and IV hired by MGM Studios to feature in film, ‘Agent Cody Banks’
2002 Linear II and Linear V hired by Paramount British Pictures to feature in US series, ‘Keen Eddy’
2002 Linear III and Linear V hired by Blockbuster to feature in television commercial
1996 Two canvases commissioned by the Northern College, Barnsley
1995 Artist in Residence, Golborne High School

Critical reviews and press coverage
2017 Disordered Worlds with Stuart Jones. Tickled Inc. Magazine. Website. July 29. https://tickled-inc.com/
2003 Arts and Entertainment, Angel Magazine, July, pp12
2001 William Lawrence, City Centre, Picture Business, April, pp 12/13
2001 Chris Furlong, Leeds for Art's sake, Leeds Guide, May pp 6/7
2001 Rich Jevons, Art Review, Metro, May

Galleries
Arc Prints, London

Publications
2001 The Britart Directory, Book, HMP Sheffield

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