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…

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…

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…

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…

With his works as presented in this exhibition, Alan Jones changes the relationship between paint and surface into something more intimate…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…