YVONNE JONES - Contemporary Artist Exploring Posthumanism and Nowhumanism
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From HERE - Treading Water, Oil on Canvas 102 x 92 cm. Shown in Describing the Elephant Quay Arts I.O.W Yvonne Jones 1995.
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To HERE - X/uberant (the joy of being alive) A recent Built Canvas, with acrylics, canvas, debris 38 x 37 x 10cm Yvonne Jones 2023
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I am a UK-based contemporary artist and researcher: working across painting, built canvas, and mixed media. My practice explores the shifting relationship between the human body, memory, and identity in the age of technology — a conversation between the physical-now and the posthuman. Drawing on influences from biology, philosophy, and psychology, my work invites reflection on the experience of living, through touch, embodiment, and transformation.
Featured Works:
From early oil paintings such as FROM HERE; Treading Water (1995) above, to recent pieces like TO HERE: X/uberant (2023) above, my art expresses an evolving visual language. These works merge traditional materials with unconventional textures and debris, blurring the boundaries between surface and space.
Artist Statement:
My creative process is both intuitive. I investigate how the body is reimagined in contemporary culture — from the flesh-and-blood human to the technologically extended self and the technically stand alone self — drawing on thinkers including Stelarc, Hans Moravec, and Katherine Hayles. This journey is expressed through layered surfaces, tactile marks, and constructed forms.
The changing images are all a part of the Journey, each one moving forward or crossing over notions in the development of my studio work.
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Visual language, drawing, painting, installations, is my means to 'see' more, understand more. My way of thinking. Early works of people close to me, favourite places, memories, helping me to know who and where in the world I exist, looking out from inside. I remain site for my work, exploring my existence today.
The term Posthuman, felt like a piece of a jigsaw, you know it is part of the whole, but what and where is it from? It excited me and led to questioning identity; mine, yours, the condition of our now species.
Now - humans
The term Posthuman, felt like a piece of a jigsaw, you know it is part of the whole, but what and where is it from? It excited me and led to questioning identity; mine, yours, the condition of our now species.
Now - humans
Discover my Current Work for recent projects and exhibitions, explore my Projects to learn more about my research, or Contact me for enquiries, collaborations, and commissions.