Lucia Jones

Lucia Jones is an award-winning Welsh painter. Since graduating from Falmouth University, she has exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. Jones has been long and shortlisted for numerous prestigious prizes, including the John Moores Painting Prize (2020), the BEEP Painting Prize (2018 and 2024), the National Eisteddfod of Wales (2025), and the Jackson’s Art Prize (2022 and 2023). In 2025 she was the recipient of the Wakelin Award, marking her first acquisition into a public collection; her work is now held in the permanent collection of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK. Her work is also held in private collections across Australia, Austria, Hong Kong, Mexico, the UK, and the USA.

Jones’ practice explores memory and self-perception through the constructs of paint and film. Focusing on the female psyche in painted space, she draws inspiration from 50s-90s b-movies, art history, and her own photographs, recontextualising women as anonymised subjects within fractured and fabricated environments. These painted scenes act as cyphers for lived experience, to be glimpsed and examined. Her recent works explore societal expectations placed on women and the performative nature of femininity, depicting figures i...

2014 - Fine Art BA (Hons), First Class, Falmouth University

AWARDS

2025 - Wakelin Award 2025, Purchase prize, permanent public collection, United Kingdom

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026 -Wakelin Award 2025: Lucia Jones, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK
2024 - Spectacle, Irving Gallery, Oxford, UK
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026

I am no longer, Galleria Patricia Armocida, Milan, Italy
Together Through Art 2026, Mall Galleries, London, UK

2025

Stage III, Mirror, University of Plymouth, UK
Stage II, Bay Art, Cardiff, UK
Elsewhere, Here, Elysium x Sample Studios, Lord Mayors Pavilion Gallery, Cork, Ireland and Elysium Gallery Swansea, UK
Y Lle Celf 2025, The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Tŷ Pawb, Wrexham
Art on a Postcard Auction for International Women's Day, The Bomb Factory, London, UK
BEEP Painting Prize - Do Androids Dream, Oriel Croesor, UK
Intersum, Occupata x Oriel Canfas, Oriel Canfas, UK

2024

BEEP Painting Prize, Elysium Gallery and University of Aberystwyth, UK
2024
Among Women Vol I., Occupata x Art Market Cardiff, Art Market Cardiff, Cardiff, UK
2024
Arcade Studios, Art Market Cardiff, Cardiff, UK
Chairish x Bergdorf Goodmans, Bergdorf Goodmans, NYC, USA
Through a Glass Darkly, (Duo exhibition with Dylan Williams), Visible Records, Charlottesville VA, USA

2023

A worl...