CURRICULUM VITAE
Tel: 0161 2111696 Mobile: 07807401546
Email: lisa_jones71@hotmail.com
EMPLOYMENT:
2003- 2015 Educational Assistant, Inscape House, Together Trust.
(school for children and young people who have autism)
Specialist Art Assistant- assisting in and teaching art to
KS2, 3, 4 and post 16. Arts award advisor- Discover and
Explore and bronze/silver.
Art technician.
2006 Artist in Residence, Timespan, Sutherland. Bio- diversity
Project with primary school children.
2005 Artist in Residence, Together Trust. Project with young
people from childrens homes and children with autism.
2002 Artist in Residence, Tunbridge Wells museum and Art Gallery
Project on the theme ‘Celebration’.
2001-2002 Play worker, 5ways play group, Brighton.
2001 Photography Tutor, Oasis Project, Brighton.
Projects with women who have alcohol and drug addictions.
2001 Visiting painting lecturer, University of Brighton.
2000 Assistant Artist to interior designer, Westminster Health
Care.
2000 Art Workshop Coordinator, Moulscoomb and Whitehawk
Youth centres, Brighton.
2000-2002 Part- time youth worker:
Projects with young women, haven district
Projects with challenging teenagers, Portslade Village Centre
Youth information mobile- sexual health and drugs
information.
After school club, Peacehaven
1999-2001 Assistant to designer maker- lumicube.com
1999 Photography workshop coordinator, Coalition 4 Youth,
Brighton.
1995- 1996 Art Workshop coordinator with Bosnian refugees, Czech
Republic
1995-1996 Art Teacher, the English College In Prague, Czech Republic
EDUCATION:
2007 NVQ 3 Supporting teaching and learning in schools.
1996- 1997 M.A European Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, Barcelona
And Winchester
1991- 1994 B.A (Hons) Fine Art Painting ( First Class), Duncan of
Jordanstone College of Art.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2015 ‘Shelf Life’, P.S Mirabel gallery, Manchester
‘snuggy knickers’, New Mills arts trail
Be Gallery, Haltwhistle. (solo)
2014 ‘making cockroaches pretty’ featured in ‘little performance’ online
magazine (November 2014)
2014 ‘Making cockroaches pretty’
New Mills arts trail. Art in shop windows
2013 The Art Lounge, New Mills
2002 Gallery 100, Brighton
Lewes Contemporary Art Fair
Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery (Solo)
2001 American Express Festival exhibition
‘Repeat Repeat’, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
Gallery 40, Crawley
‘Memory and Desire’, Start Gallery, Brighton
2000 ‘Quality Street’, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
‘Pure Paint’, Brixton Art Gallery, London
The Trafford Centre, Manchester
The Craft and Design Centre, Manchester (Solo)
‘Sweetheart Barbie Pink’, I.O Gallery, Brighton (Solo)
Christie-Wild NY AD2000, New York
1999 Brighton Festival Open House Exhibition
‘Tank’, Octopus Gallery, Saffron Walden
1998 The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
The White gallery, Brighton (Solo)
Gallery 100, Brighton
‘Shoes on Location’, Rotherham Art Centre (Solo)
‘Foreign Affairs’, Europaishe Akademie, Trier, Germany
‘Show 9’, Gallery Oboy, San Francisco
1997 M.A European Fine Art Degree Show, Winchester
‘Tallers Obert’. Barcelona
‘Foreign Affairs’, Can Felipa, Barcelona
Galeria Panorama, Barcelona (Solo)
‘Etc’, Social Cultural Centre, Prague
‘Etc II’, Radost, Prague
1994 Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Degree Show
RSA Exhibition, Edinburgh
1993 ‘Young Contemporaries’, Whitworth gallery, Manchester
ARTIST STATEMENT
I use paint, miniature objects, found objects, drawings and sometimes text; either working with images and forms, from personal experience and memory, or most recently the study of form . I use these forms as tools in the process of painting ,drawing or making. Indeed, I am particularly concerned with the process, the making and the materials used; the aesthetic composition and colour combinations; quality of line and the impact of the work. Ideas can emerge, change and evolve during the process, and then through reflection.
Within some of the 2D work, the subjects are painted or drawn in a straightforward, simplified manner. I employ a direct approach as I am interested in creating emotional evocations of experience rather than naturalistic representations; the imagery is direct, non-fixed and changing, as are real memories.
The miniature sculptures are sometimes used alongside the paintings or as art pieces/ installations in themselves.
With my most recent work, I use polysterene/ Styrofoam packaging, with coloured sand, glitter and gloss paint to create work that is , for me, concerned with formal aspects rather than meaning; the negative space; the shapes within the shapes; the space within the space; the mechanical, geometric and industrial.
For now I do not use image and form from memory exactly, although the objects I use are found or acquired and have a story behind them. As with previous work, ideas do emerge and evolve during the process of making and then through reflection. The material I use are shells, their primary function is to protect objects in transit. They provoke environmental and political issues. They are global consumer capitalism bi- products. I have transformed and recycled these non- recyclable waste products; which an undetermined and vast amount are produced, into something that is unrecognizable to the original form or function.