Patrick adam jones
At Chelsea School of Art during the early 1980’s, Patrick Adam Jones was invited to study within the graphics and design department. It was here where he was able to develop his interest in identity, history and literature within an expanded painting practice, an interdisciplinary engagement that has continued throughout his artistic career. This innovative mentoring encouraged him to immerse references to his father, an architect and surveyor, and to a deep, almost scientific analysis of the world around him.
Jones is concerned with visual, spoken and written language at a time when we are constantly driven towards speed and often find ourselves out of sync with technical innovation. The use of text and numbers in his work invites the audience to come closer to his work and slows down the pace of engagement.
Much of his current work begins with reclaimed photographic imagery, combined with stereoscopic photographs taken by himself, overlain with text, numbers and colours.
With a profound understanding of dimensions and scale, he employs the apparatus of measuring as a conceptual artistic practice, appropriating the skills and tools of a surveyor to measure landscapes and mountains. This intrepid spirit often takes him to remote locations.
His work is very much based upon where he makes it and made with what is available to him during each of places he inhabits. Previously he has completed several artists residencies in India, Nigeria and Tasmania, where he simply continued his daily artistic practice without importing any preconceived notions of what he might create. Consequently, the works made in these contexts are very different from his regular studio works, involve variable materials and visual information, and have often been exhibited within these countries.
Currently living and working in East Sussex, Jones has also been co-running a project space in St. Leonards-on-sea for ten years, Project 78 Gallery. His commitment to establishing a platform for both emerging and established artists in this region is as strong today as it ever was.
He is currently exhibiting works in several exhibitions exploring our human relationships to time, location, perspective and memory.
Jones’ practice is like that of a painter, or like that of a sculptor, using photography, printmaking and graphic design as essential devices upon which to pin his ideas. He paints in parallel to the journeys of explorers. He is not intimidated by the vastness of ideas, or what is possible.
