Lenny Ann Low
Alan Jones: Paintings and Drawings
Sydney Morning Herald, 27-28 November 2006, page 21.

Alan Jones lays it on thick but his paintings and drawings bear a fragility within their chunky demeanour. In this series, Jones depicts a range of heads that could be besed on humans or carvings from a material such as wood. They could also be a series of tribal masks, variously decorated with strong, dark and light lines or a decorative pattern. Jones, however, gives each a lick of the living with the odd furtive glance out of frame or an expression of petrified thought. Having won the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship last month, Jones will travel to Paris soon for a 3 month residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts.