Gabrielle Jones | About Last Night | SOLD
About Last Night | 2019
76 x 56 cm
Watercolour and collage on paper. Light timber box frame. Float mounted.
SOLD
Gabrielle Jones explores paint in the material, sensual as well as psychological sphere and the interaction between the internal and external world of the artist in contemporary life. Her work explores the relationships and tensions engendered by opposites: movement and stillness, isolation and engulfment, the tender and the strong, the organic and the constructed, abstraction and figuration, risk and control, the personal and the global -and the psychological state these opposites can engender when they come smack bang up against each other.
In doing so, she uses her physicality (which dictates preferred ground dimensions), and that of her materials, glorying in the tactility of surfaces and interwoven layers. Her process mines feelings, experiences, memory and a collection of stored images from life and travel, evincing rhythmic, expressionistic and sometimes sensuous images, often existing at the turning point where pure abstraction becomes figuration, and vice versa
Biography
Gabrielle Jones
An Australian abstract artist with an expansive exhibition history. In addition to over 18 solo exhibitions across three states in Australia and appointment as drawing instructor for the Sydney Biennale Events in 2012, Gabrielle has been awarded a number of art prizes and grants (most recently the CreateNSW Government Artist Grant), and has been short-listed for prestigious painting and drawing prizes across the country.
She has held two exhibitions at Grefti Cultural Projects in Italy; and three solo shows at NSW Regional Museums. Her work has been collected across public Australian institutions (Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, Bundanon Trust), as well as internationally by Zabon Construction Group, Shanghai China; Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain; and Art Scape Organisation, Toronto; and is held in private collections in London, New York, Italy, Spain, Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Tahiti. Jones’s practice has seen her complete artist residencies abroad in Tahiti, Spain and Canada, as well as locally in Australia.
Her paintings have appeared in two juried publications in USA and UK in 2018.
Jones completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from the National Art School in 2003.
