‘Breathe In’ - Catalogue foreword
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‘Breathe In’ - Catalogue foreword

Alan Daniel 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…

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‘Alan Daniel Jones Prints’ - Michael Kempson
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‘Alan Daniel Jones Prints’ - Michael Kempson

I’ve long admired the art of Alan Daniel 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…

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‘Alan Daniel Jones’ - Tim Olsen
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‘Alan Daniel Jones’ - Tim Olsen

It might sound odd, but I think of Alan Daniel 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…

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‘Cherrybrook’ - Artist statement
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‘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…

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‘The Mother Land’ - Catalogue foreword
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‘The Mother Land’ - Catalogue foreword

Alan Daniel 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…

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‘Wyalkatchem’ - Artist statement
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‘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…

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‘Australian Dada’ - Ashley Crawford
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‘Australian Dada’ - Ashley Crawford

At its heart, Alan Daniel 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…

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