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 intuitive, 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 intuitive, 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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