National Portrait Gallery Collection
In 2014, Adam Goodes broke the record for most AFL games played by an Indigenous footballer. This honour was added to a long list of accolades as a dual Brownlow Medallist, dual premiership winner, four-time All-Australian, member of the Indigenous Team of the Century, and Australian representative in the International Rules Series…
Mosman Art Gallery Collection
‘Painting 131 (North Coogee)’ has been acquired by the Mosman Art Gallery Collection as the winner of the 2015 Mosman Art Prize…
‘Paintings from Coogee’ catalogue foreword
Over the past decade or so Alan Daniel Jones has been interested in ideas that surround notions of identity, as ‘people and place’ have become reoccurring themes in his work…
‘Mosman Art Prize’ Winner 2015
Alan Jones wins the 2015 Mosman Art Prize for his painting titled ‘Painting 131 (North Coogee)’. Guest judge Michael Rolfe (Chief Executive Officer, Museums & Galleries NSW) writes…
Artbank Collection
Two paintings, ‘Painting 122 (Dad)’ and ‘Painting 110 (Dad)’, have been acquired by Artbank from the 2014 Melbourne Art Fair. These paintings depict the artist’s father, inspired by a 1979 photograph…
‘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 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…
‘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…
‘Wyalkatchem’ catalogue foreword by 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…
‘Kedumba Drawing Award’ Winner 2010
Artists Suzanne Archer, David Eastwood, Annette Iggulden, Alan Jones, Adriane Strampp and Mary Tonkin have been announced joint winners...
‘Paddington Art Prize’ Winner 2008
‘Painting 63’ wins the 2008 Paddington Art Prize. The Paddington Art Prize is a $30,000 National acquisitive prize, awarded annually for a painting inspired by the Australian landscape…
Artbank Collection
‘Mike’ was first exhibited in ‘The Western Front’ exhibition at the Hawkesbury Regional Gallery in 2007. Later that year, ‘Mike’ was included in Jones’ third major solo exhibition…