Tony Jones (sculptor)

Professor Tony Jones is a sculptor; and a former Director of the Glasgow School of Art. He took the post of Director from 1980 to 1986.

Life
Jones is from a tiny hamlet in west Wales. He went to Newport School of Art in Wales.

He was teaching as a sculptor in the Glasgow School of Art in the 1970s.

He took over as Director of Glasgow School of Art in 1980. He became only the second sculptor to become a director, after James Gray in the 1930s. He became an authority on the history of art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and also on Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

He moved to become a Chancellor of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1986.

He received a CBE in 2003.

He received an honorary doctorate from the Glasgow School of Art (Doctor of Letters, D.Litt.).

He is a Honorary Vice President of the Glasgow School of Art.

Jones is an advocate of the rebuilding of the Mackintosh building after its fires of the 2010s and gave evidence to the Scottish Parliament backing this plan.