YVONNE JONES
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. Below is a small selection from my portfolio:-
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I am a UK-based contemporary artist and researcher: the work seeks to loosen boundaries, using painting, built canvas, and mixed media. My practice explores living today, the shifting relationship between our the human body, memory, and identity, in the age of fast evolving 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 today.
Artist Statement:
My creative process is 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 various means, video, layered surfaces, tactile marks, and constructed forms. I am site for the work.
Featured Works:
From early oil paintings such as FROM HERE; Treading Water (1995), above, to recent pieces like TO HERE: X/uberant (2023), below, my art expresses an evolving visual language.
Artist Statement:
My creative process is 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 various means, video, layered surfaces, tactile marks, and constructed forms. I am site for the work.
Featured Works:
From early oil paintings such as FROM HERE; Treading Water (1995), above, to recent pieces like TO HERE: X/uberant (2023), below, my art expresses an evolving visual language.
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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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 existence.I consider myself a Now-Human.
NEWS
Delighted to be a part of this great project which has been awarded an Arts Council Project Grant.
'In and out of Bounds' Parts 1 and 2
Part One - Forest Bounds - spudWORKS (opening 4.00 17th April 2026)
How people and place continually shape one another across boundaries of geography and me.
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Subjected Senses - yvonne jones Extending the Senses - yvonne jones
Xray images of my body, and small painting. The video Subjected Senses is an earlier work, yet has helixed down the years and is closely related to Extending the Senses
Awareness of our Surroundings
Awareness of Our Surroundings and Our Bodies as we journey through our daily routines, awareness of the environment around us - fluctuates. Sometimes we are acutely conscious of what is happening within us and what surrounds us, while at other times, our senses are dulled to the details of our setting.
Part Two - Outbound - From 3 -13 September 2026, during the 61st Venice Art Biennale.
at KUNST DEPOT VENEZIA, Cannaregio 5415, Rio tera dei Biri - Campiello Widmann, 30121 Venice, Italy.
Awareness of Our Surroundings and Our Bodies as we journey through our daily routines, awareness of the environment around us - fluctuates. Sometimes we are acutely conscious of what is happening within us and what surrounds us, while at other times, our senses are dulled to the details of our setting.
Part Two - Outbound - From 3 -13 September 2026, during the 61st Venice Art Biennale.
at KUNST DEPOT VENEZIA, Cannaregio 5415, Rio tera dei Biri - Campiello Widmann, 30121 Venice, Italy.
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.