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Yvonne Jones Artist / Researcher
''‘Yvonne Jones’s video piece, Memory Three, infiltrates the skin-deep façade of self-portraiture. Painfully sensitive perspectives on corporeal self-identity are investigated in cringe-inducing close-up…. Personal space is thoroughly invaded.’ Robert Clark (RC); The Guide, Guardian Feb 5, 2005.

A Welsh Artist, Jones’s art practice investigates being human in relation to notions of the posthuman. Exploring who we are, and the way we live today. Through Painting, Video Projection, Installation and Built Canvases, she works between the internal and external worlds, often using her own body as site *1.

'Early life'

Yvonne Jones (Marie Yvonne Evans) was born in Holywell, Flintshire in 1946. The eldest and only female of four children, herself and brothers Vincent, David and Christopher, with parents Cecil Evans and Joan Maddock. Her secondary education was at the local State Grammar School alongside Jonathan Pryce. Jones applied to a Teacher Training College in Liverpool, in answer to the part requesting the Headmaster’s name as referee, she wrote “not applicable”. She gained her teaching qualification in 1968, (later awarded as an Honorary B.Ed. 2019). During this time at college Vincent died aged 18. The loss saw Jones questioning her life, her values, religion, beliefs and culture, leaving her isolated and displaced. It was in this same period that she met her partner Peter Maurice Jones FRICS, FRSA. They have two sons Daniel and Karl.

Career

She began painting spontaneously and recognised painting as a language that came naturally to her. With an early work shown in Blue to 100, 1977 selected by John Piper and Arthur Giardelli, she had the courage to apply for a place and began studying Fine Art at Liverpool College of Art, gaining a BA Hons in Painting (1977-1980). Here began a lifelong love for the work of Giacometti. In 1980 Jones, along with 11 other students, including David Campbell, set up Liverpool Artists Workshop (LAW) *2, supported by the then Arts Council of Great Britain and Liverpool City Council. Jones went on to complete an MA in Fine Art Painting, (with Distinction) at Winchester School of Art (2004) following this with a PhD through art practice, also at Winchester School of Art, part of the University of Southampton in 2010 *3. Through her work she acknowledged her feminism, recognising herself as an Emerging Posthuman (Feminist) *4. She was a Founder Member and Board Member of ArtSway (1995 - 2011)*5. An early ArtSway show, The History of the Turner prize exhibited works by Turner Prize Artists including Damien Hirst*6 and Anthony Gormley*7 (group exhibitions 1997 and’99). ArtSway was renowned for encouraging emerging artists *8. She is a founding and current member of PIRG (Phenomenology and Imagination Research Group) *9 a group of artists with distinct areas of research *10.

Work

Jones has exhibited widely over the years *11. Her work is held in Cambridge University in the Unique Collection of Contemporary Women's Art at New Hall College Cambridge *12, Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery Collection (ArtUK), and Private Collections in the UK and US. She has been included in The Royal Academy Illustrated Catalogue 1989 P18. (https://www.abebooks.co.uk/book-search/title/the-royal-academy-illustrated-1989/), Women’s art New Hall catalogues ISBNs (0950710849 / 0950710822/ 0950710814), Feint (feint: wield /tackle) (9781873451632) Re:Imagining Wales (9781854114068,) Bloomberg new contemporaries (0954084837). Her work was in Multi-Channel at ArtSway, in 2007. She showed work with the PIRG group in November 2015 In Dialogue: Material Imagination at the Link Gallery Winchester University *13 with successive shows including Sites of Conversation *14 (2017) in the Winchester Gallery *15. Her work was included in The International Women’s Day Exhibition*16 at the Link Gallery. Her Installation Piece, Internal landscape (2018), is part of the new research Centre for Cancer Immunology where she worked as Artist in Residence with Professor Tim Elliot and his team*17. Video projections Master Medics and X ordium*18 also came from this period.

She is an affiliated member of the (BPS) British Psychological Society *19 and is a FRSA (Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts)*20, she lives and works in the New Forest, Hampshire UK and maintains strong links with WSA (Winchester School of Art) part of UoS (University of Southampton)*21

Exhibitions (a selection)*22:

.      2019 Society of Women Artists, London.

.      2018 International Women's Day Exhibition; Winchester Link Gallery

.      2017 Sites of Conversation; Winchester College of Art Gallery

.      2015 PIRG In Dialogue: Material Imagination; Link Gallery, Winchester University

·      2013 Blood Flo, part of Southampton Hospital PR stand

·      2011 FEINT, Rag Factory, London

·      2009 Launch of WSA Research Anthology (X/701085)

·      2007 MULTICHANNEL ArtSway Gallery (X-it)

·      2005 Memory Three Leeds Met, University of Leeds

·      2004 New Contemporaries, Liverpool and London Barbican

·      2001 New Hall College Cambridge (solo show)

·      1998 The way I See it, Salisbury Arts Centre

·      1995 Aspex Gallery Portsmouth WORDS

·      1995 Describing the Elephant QAC Isle of Wight (solo show)

·      1993 Kunstzentrum Glide / Reinbeck, Germany

·      1992 Mall Galleries, Laing Society

·      1991 Oriel Mostyn Llandudno, Eye of Saturn

.      1991 Mall Galleries, Pastel Society

·      1990 Royal Academy of Art, London

.      1990 Mall Galleries, Pastel Society

·      1990 Family Matters QAC Isle of Wight (solo show)

·      1989 Royal Academy of Art, London

.      1986 Bury St Edmunds Museum and Art Gallery

.      1986 Portsmouth Museum and Art Gallery

.      1983 Bridewell Studios, Liverpool, support from Eastern Arts (solo show)

.      1983 Aberystwyth University Art Centre

.      1981 Wrexham Art Centre 'Two Artists' Yvonne Jones and David Campbell support from Merseyside Arts Trust

.      1981 LAW. Liverpool Artist Workshop support from British Arts Council

.      1980 Liverpool Arts Festival

.      1978 Theatre Clwyd (solo show)

.      1977 Cardiff, Blue to 100. support from Welsh Arts Council, selectors John Piper and Arthur Giardelli

Collections

Centre for Cancer Immunology, University of Southampton

New Hall College, Cambridge (Permanent Contemporary Women’s Art Collection

Former Merseyside Artstrust

Arts Council of Wales (work held Gwynedd Museum and Art Gallery Collection)

Private Collections including USA and Europe

External Links

Vimeo

YouTube

Axis

X-position

Paintings from series runs Saatchi Online

Yvonne Jones Website

Texts  Projects

Peeling the body

PIRG

New Hall Women’s Art Collection

BC Art UK

References

1.	https://www.axisweb.org/p/yvonnejones/

2.	‘Marketing Art in the British Isles 1700 to Present, Edited by Charlotte Gould P72. L25

3.	https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/165501/

4.	http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/165501/

5.	https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/en/archive/20130409102721/http:/www.artsway.org.uk/about-us/board-of-trustees/dr-yvonne-jones/

6.	http://damienhirst.com/exhibitions/group/1999/history-turner-prize

7.	https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2000/jun/14/architectureweek.architectureweek2000

8.	https://www.webarchive.org.uk/wayback/en/archive/20130409095936/http://www.artsway.org.uk/about-us/history/

9.	https://blog.soton.ac.uk/wsapgr/phenomenology-and-imagination-research-group/

10.	http://www.pirg-research.com/pirg-sessions.html

11.	https://www.yvonne-jones.net/about-exhibitions--collections-awards-and-support.html

12.	https://www.art.newhall.cam.ac.uk/artist/yvonne-jones/

13.	http://www.pirg-research.com/blog/pirgs-exhibition-in-dialogue-material-imagination-the-link-gallery-winchester-university-2015

14.	http://www.pirg-research.com/blog/sites-of-conversation-exhibition-and-symposium-july-2017

15.	https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wrc/activities/winchester_gallery.page

16.	https://www.winchester.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/event-items/international-womens-day-exhibition.php

17.	https://www.southampton.ac.uk/youreit/meet-the-team/

18.	https://vimeo.com/user11718150

19.	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Psychological_Society

20.	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society_of_Arts

21.	https://www.southampton.ac.uk/wsa/index.page

22.	https://www.yvonne-jones.net/about-exhibitions--collections-awards-and-support.html