Malcolm Jones

Born Merseyside 1949 Malcolm Jones lives and works in east London. He has followed a very varied and dynamic career as an artist, showing in many places in Britain and abroad- among them the Royal Academy, National Portrait Gallery and leading galleries in Frankfurt, Munich and Amsterdam. His earliest works incorporated unorthodox materials such as hair, plaster and plastics alongside paint, and led into performance work during the 1970s. In 1976 he painted the walls and ceiling of the Acme Gallery in tones which opposed those cast by the gallery lighting system and in a further piece made an illusory extension to the upper gallery. The dynamics within Malcolm Jones paintings result from procedures of chance ascription and logical modification of colour swatches to circumscribe pictorial space. The process suggested a further resolution within the genre of light relief in which the painted panels made since 1993 relate to each other, both across the gallery planes, but also, within the shallow depth articulated by the prominence afforded by each sub-frame. Jones has located each front vertical plane along a spatial grid which recedes from the viewer in a geometrical progression in such a way as to make objects which are theoretica...

University of Reading,
Chelsea School of Art
Singer & Friedlander Exhibition, 2003
A Short History of Performance: P1, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 2002
Watercolour C21, Bankside Gallery, London SE1, 1999
Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London 1996, &94, 85, 84, 71
South London Open, South London Gallery 1995
Kunstbrucke, Kulturampt Prenzlauerberg, Berlin 1991
Beyond Structure, Chisenhale Gallery, London 1990
Dreams & False Alarms, Riverside Studios, London 1984
Tolly Cobbold Eastern Arts 4, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1983-4
Sainsburys Images for Today (prize), Graves Art Gallery, touring 1982-3
The New Look in British Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, London 1980
Art Club Sinkasten,Frankfurt 1975; Space Electronic, Florence 1975;
Roundhouse, Chalk Farm 1975; De Lantaren, Rotterdam 1975;
Moodier, Garage Fine Art, London 1975
University of Ghent, International Festival of Electronic Music 1974;
Marcel Duchamp Last Works, Palais de Beaux Arts, Brussels 1974
Fluxshoe, Victor Musgrave Gallery, Hastings 1974
Platform73, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford 1973
Kammerspiel Theatre, Frankfurt 1973; Forum Theatre, Berlin 1973;
Melkweg, Amsterdam 1973; Par...