CURRENT WORK
of Yvonne Jones
I am a contemporary artist, the recent works created, continue to explore shape, colour, movement, light, through experiences and memory of the body. My artwork includes built canvases, paintings, drawings; using materials such as oil paint, acrylic, charcoal, mixed media. I have also worked in videos and installations.
These pieces reflect my interest in the post human and in the relationships in this now-human, between body, time and space, using experience and memory with emotional gestures.
My process is both intuitive and research-led, allowing each artwork to evolve naturally.
Click on each image to view close up details. For inquiries, or to follow up my work, email [email protected]
These pieces reflect my interest in the post human and in the relationships in this now-human, between body, time and space, using experience and memory with emotional gestures.
My process is both intuitive and research-led, allowing each artwork to evolve naturally.
Click on each image to view close up details. For inquiries, or to follow up my work, email [email protected]
Fractured Shadow 108 x 80 x 8 cm
mixed media 2025
Life is multi-dimensional, a perspective the works expose. Filled with wonder, fear, and curiosity about existence I explore how I exist, how does my inner self relate internally and externally. My corporeal unit is site, I explore experiences of body, mind, ideas, emotions, and psychologies, sometimes comparing this with the externality of the internal experience. The works express something of living today, unpicking this “human”. I consider myself an emerging posthuman (feminist) artist; this position informs the work.
The first artist to have significant influence on me was Francis Bacon. Aged 13, accompanying a close friend on her school trip, I stood rooted in front of his work, awash with emotions. Then there is Van Gogh, I love the vitality and colours in his work. With Giacometti it is how he presents the sense of a person and how from a specific view point his work jumps into 3D. Antony Gormley’s work and his phrase ‘the experiencer on the other-side of appearance’ never ceases to fire me up. As my work developed, from expressionist figurative painting to an increasied mix of video and installation, I began to identify with and appreciate the works and theoretical positions of Orlan, Jo Spence and Marina Abramovic. Moving back into painting and building canvases, I came to understand the influence of Rauschenberg on my work. I have work in the Women’s Art Collection, Murray Edwards College, part of the University of Cambridge; Gwynedd Museum, Bangor; Private Collections UK and US.
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