Paintings from Coopers Shoot catalogue foreword
For contemporary artist Alan Jones, Coopers Shoot has become a significant site of respite. The scenic location is known for its hilltop farmland and panoramic views to Cape Byron…
Breathe In catalogue foreword
Alan Jones' paintings aim to take the viewer through time and place. His latest exhibition, "Breath in", started out close to home yet ultimately led somewhere far more distant and ethereal…
Life…still by Brooke Massender
Alan Jones' aims to take the viewer on an autobiographical journey through time and place. His latest exhibition "Still Life" is no exception…
Alan Jones Prints by Michael Kempson
I’ve long admired the art of Alan Jones – honest, rigorously engaging and technically intriguing. There was great anticipation when Jones, as the recipient of the Paddington Art Prize’s UNSW Art & Design award…
Alan Jones by Tim Olsen
It might sound odd, but I think of Alan Jones as a kind of young Dutch master of the Australian landscape. His work, with it’s bleached, austere palette and fixation on the raised horizon, sometimes reminds me of Vermeer…
Cherrybrook artist statement
When we moved to Cherrybrook in 1982, the suburb was mostly virgin bushland and old farms with a few scattered houses. The area now known as Mike Kenny Oval was a neglected farming paddock…
Time and Place: Recent Collage by Anna Johnson
Alan Jones cuts into the language of landscape by cleaving the line between paint and surface. The horizons, branches and tide lines of his new works bear the sculptural quality of blunt sunlight and hard shadows…
Paintings from Coogee catalogue foreword
Over the past decade or so Alan Jones has been interested in ideas that surround notions of identity, as ‘people and place’ have become reoccurring themes in his work…
Album Paintings catalogue foreword
Since graduating from the National Art School in Sydney in 1997, Jones’ images have often focused on the human figure and landscape…
The Mother Land catalogue foreward
Alan Jones’ maternal family heritage can be traced back to British convicts Robert Forrester and Isabella ‘Bella’ Ramsay. Robert and Isabella were both separately convicted for crimes of theft…
Wyalkatchem artist statement
My earliest childhood memories go back to the country town of Wyalkatchem in Western Australia. In the late ’70s and early ’80s my parents, Mike and Jenny, were widely known within the small community as publicans of the Wyalkatchem Hotel…
Australian Dada by Ashley Crawford
At its heart, Alan Jones’ latest body of work is a celebration. Hints of introspection, via self-portraiture, float through his work, but so does an embracement of family, of environment and of the future…