Visual Artist
About
Alan Jones is an Australian visual artist. In 2000, Jones gained his BFA from the National Art School in Sydney before furthering his education abroad as a recipient of the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship. Jones’ work has won multiple awards and been exhibited throughout Australia, the UK, and Asia.
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Art Gallery of New South Wales
‘Painting 266 (Mike Kenny Oval)’ has been selected as a finalist for the Sulman Prize 2020 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales…
By Michael Kempson
I’ve long admired the art of Alan Jones – honest, rigorously engaging and technically intriguing. There was great anticipation when Jones, as the recipient of the Paddington Art Prize’s UNSW Art & Design award…
X Collaborative Portraits
His endeavour for Project X was to offer something curious: a collaboration between the photographer and the subject. The intimate moment of sitting in a chair in front of his experienced lens is followed by…
By Tim Olsen
It might sound odd, but I think of Alan Jones as a kind of young Dutch master of the Australian landscape. His work, with it’s bleached, austere palette and fixation on the raised horizon, sometimes reminds me of Vermeer…
Artist Statement
When we moved to Cherrybrook in 1982, the suburb was mostly virgin bushland and old farms with a few scattered houses. The area now known as Mike Kenny Oval was a neglected farming paddock…
Art Gallery of South Australia
‘Pat’ has been acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Pat Corrigan AM is an Australian businessman, art collector and philanthropist…
By Ashley Crawford
At its heart, Alan Jones’ latest body of work is a celebration. Hints of introspection, via self-portraiture, float through his work, but so does an embracement of family, of environment and of the future…
Winner - Paddington Art Prize 2008
‘Painting 63’ wins the 2008 Paddington Art Prize. The Paddington Art Prize is a $30,000 National acquisitive prize, awarded annually for a painting inspired by the Australian landscape…