Video tour - Olsen Gallery presents ‘Paintings from Coopers Shoot’
Olsen Gallery is proud to present ‘Still Life’, an exhibition of new paintings by Alan Daniel Jones. For Jones, Coopers Shoot has become a significant site of respite…
Interview - The BEAST
Coogee artist Alan Daniel Jones is the talent behind this month’s moody cover painting of Coogee’s Dunningham Reserve. He shares his local favourites with The Beast...
Video tour - Olsen Gallery presents ‘Breathe In’
Olsen Gallery presents a video tour of Alan Daniel Jones' exhibition, Breath In, 18 May - 4 June 2022 at Olsen Annexe in Sydney.…
Podcast - Art Wank
Come along for the ride with two comical, curious artists Fiona Verity and Julie Nicholson talking about their creative journey and hear them interviewing artists, curators, gallery owners…
Video tour - Olsen Gallery presents ‘Still Life’
Olsen Gallery is proud to present ‘Still Life’, an exhibition of new paintings by Alan Daniel Jones. For the artist, each composition is an intimate kind of diary entry, a means to document daily life with fragments of images and text…
‘Ghosts of the past: The art of Julian Meagher, Sophie Cape, Chris Langlois and Alan Daniel Jones’ - Andrew McIlroy
Artist Alan Daniel Jones seems everywhere. And for good reason. The artist and his works are in high demand. He is critically acclaimed and awarded, and a strong presence on the Australian and international art scene…
‘Got an Unloved Artwork and $100 to Spare? The Other Art Fair Will Help Turn It Into a Masterpiece’ - Broadsheet
Maybe you’ve got a painting you’ve inherited that doesn’t quite suit your aesthetic. Or perhaps you just picked up a piece in an op shop that has a bit of unfulfilled potential…
‘Melbourne Art Fair’s modest ambition dulls its shine’ - Andrew McIlroy
This Melbourne Art Fair is over. Born of a troubled past, this year’s fair was a slimmed-down version of its former self. To be fair, the carnival with its big tent exhibition space and festive mood was a success. But its ambitions were regrettably modest, to say the least…
‘Under 10K’ - Art Collector
New life is breathed into suburbia through Alan Jones’ Cherrybrook series, presented at the fair by Sydney’s Olsen Gallery (Stand C1). Having started the paintings as digital drawings on an iPad, one cannot help but compare Jones’ practice to that of David Hockney’s recent exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria…
‘Butt Naked Salon: art, music and nudity collide in deeply moving performance’ - The Guardian
Alan Jones – the artist, not the shock jock – squeezes paint out of a tube, mixes it with water, and lifts a fat, unwieldy brush to the wall. We are in Potts Point, Sydney, and Jones is making a mural inside the hallowed Yellow House…
Sydney Art Quartet teams up with artist Alan Jones in Butt Naked II
Alan Jones invariably listens to music while he’s painting in his Alexandria studio. But the artist has never painted in front of an audience to the accompaniment of a live quartet…
Podcast interview: Talking with Painters
Alan Jones’ work crosses over painting, sculpture and collage. His most recent show was of exquisite painted wooden collages, many of which depicted the coastal landscape of Moonee Beach in NSW…
Alan Jones at Olsen Irwin, Sydney
With his works as presented in this exhibition, Alan Jones changes the relationship between paint and surface into something more intimate…
Art Guide Australia - ‘Painting Moonee Beach’
As a painter celebrated for his figurative portraits, Alan Jones recently stepped out from the depths of his warehouse studio and into the open air to tackle the longstanding tradition of landscape…
The Art Life - ‘Paintings from Coogee / The Great Divide’
Alan Jones’ latest exhibition Paintings from Coogee present some unusual takes on landscape and portraiture. Oddly haunting faces float on top of moody coastal parklands…
The West Australian - ‘Tracing time to a place’
Sydney artist Alan Jones, not to be confused with the radio shock jock of the same name, returns to his earliest memories of a WA Wheatbelt pub for his nostalgic first exhibition in Perth…
Alan Jones, ‘Wyalkatchem’
Award-winning Sydney artist Alan Jones has painted his family members multiple times over the years as part of his ongoing exploration into identity and personal heritage…
Interview with Venn Gallery: Wyalkatchem
It is important for me to have a personal connection to the work in one form or another. This keeps me emotionally involved, attached and ultimately engaged in my art-making process…
Sydney Morning Herald - ‘Alan Jones – Paintings and Drawings’
Alan Jones lays it on thick but his paintings and drawings bear a fragility within their chunky demeanour. In this series, Jones depicts a range of heads that could be based on humans or carvings from a material such as wood…
The Weekend Australian - ‘Journey of Discovery’
Asked to pick a promising young artist, Giles Auty was stumped until he came upon the work of a youthful painter from Sydney’s west…