Tony Jones

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Biography

I am a West Australian artist working predominantly as a sculptor working across a wide range of mediums and ideas from my studio/factory in O’Connor, an industrial suburb of Fremantle. My artistic vision encompasses and combines cultural and political issues, local history, maritime and aeronautical imagery as well as themes from the personal and the imagined. My sculpture as been based on an expression of personal and public concerns, anxieties, hopes and aspirations, drawing on common symbols and myths as a way of making contemporary connections. It has been a search for forms and narratives, gestures and contexts, that transcend any one incident or time. This is often done without resort to the language of abstraction. To establish symbolic order is difficult and the forms and language used are always part of a larger search.

Solo Exhibitions

2013
Windward
Leeward Gunyulgup Gallery WA

2010
Off Shore
Gallery East, WA

2006
New Stories
Gallery East, WA

2003
Next of Kin
Gallery East, WA

2003
Down South
Xanadu Gallery, WA

2001
Jones
Gallery East, WA

1999
Jones + Jones + Jones
Gallery East, WA

1994
Tony Jones, Artist and Teacher, Survey Exhibition
Cullity Gallery, University of Western Australia, WA

1988
Tony Jones Untitled
Victor Mace Gallery, Brisbane, QLD

1987
Tony Jones Untitled
Black Swan Gallery, Fremantle, WA

1981
Tony Jones Untitled
Miller Gallery, WA

1981
Tony Jones Untitled
Victor Mace Gallery, Brisbane, QLD

1980
Tony Jones Untitled
Victor Mace Gallery, Brisbane, QLD

1979
Tony Jones Untitled
Fremantle Arts Centre, WA

Group Exhibitions

2015
SXS
Cottesloe

2015
Stations of the Cross
Wesley Church

2015
For Love of Country
Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA

2015
Sculpture at Bathers
Bathers Beach Fremantle, WA

2014
Animal Ark
Art Gallery of Western Australia

2014
Viral
Freight Gallery Fremantle

2014
Sculpture in the Harbour
Albany

2013
Melville Sculpture Walk
Melville

2010
World Expo
Shanghai Australian Pavilion (visitors centre artwork)

2008
Silver 25 years
Artrage PICA

2008
Closet Circus
Bunbury Art Gallery

1997
Small is Beautiful
Lawrence Wilson Gallery, University of Western Australia, WA

1996
Field Day
Ballidu, WA

1995
100 years of WA Sculpture
Art Gallery of Western Australia, WA

1991
Backward Glance
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, WA

1989
Terra Incognita
Craft Council WA

1987
7th International Small Sculpture Exhibition
Budapest, Hungary

1969
Festival of Perth
Contemporary Art Society of Australia, University of Western Australia, WA

Awards

2009
OAM Order of Australia Medal

2008
Citizen of the Year, Arts, WA

Collections

Art Gallery of Western Australia

Artbank

Bunbury Art Gallery, WA

Central School of Art, WA

City of Fremantle, WA

St John of Gods Hospital, WA

Curtin University, WA

Edith Cowan University, WA

Holmes a Court Collection, WA

Epic Energy, WA

Commissions

2015
Childrens Hospital Emergency

2015
'Imaginarium', Ronald McDonald House

2013
'Slam Dunk', Perry Lakes redevelopment

2013
'Aspire', Perry Lakes redevelopment

2013
'Float', The Atrium Esplanade Hotel Fremantle

2012
'Trinty at Alkimos', Sculpture on Marmion Avenue

2011
'Fold', Fiona Stanley Hospital

2010
'Cardinal South', Cockburn Mobile Sister City Sculpture

2007
'Eliza', Crawley Baths, City of Perth

2005
'Lina', City of Stirling

Galleries

Gunyulgup Galleries

Gallows Gallery

Publications

2015
'Farewell to artistic visonary Jones' Michael Sampson, The West Australian
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/28774702/farewell-to-artistic-visionary-jones/

1994
'Tony Jones, artist and teacher 1964-94: sculpture, painting and works on paper', David Bromfield
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/30976996?selectedversion=NBD11165164

Residencies

1993
Christoph Merian Foundation residency guest
Established the Artsource Basel Exchange Residency