Alan Daniel Jones works with Cicada Press as recipient of the 2017 UNSW Art & Design Award
The UNSW Art & Design Award is an annual award associated with the Paddington Art Prize. Each year the recipient is offered the unique opportunity to work alongside Master Printer Michael Kempson…
‘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…
Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize - Highly Commended 2019
‘Painting 263 (Mike Kenny Oval)’ was awarded Highly Commended at the 2019 Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize…
‘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…
‘Project X: Collaborative Portraits’ - A collaboration with Gary Heery
His endeavour for Project X was to offer something curious: a collaboration between the photographer and the subject. The intimate moment of sitting in a chair in front of his experienced lens is followed by…
3:33 Art Projects and Bank of America Merrill Lynch present ‘Figure and Landscape’
Alan Daniel Jones is known for working across a broad spectrum of mediums. In this exhibition, 3:33 Art Projects presents paintings, digital drawings and soft sculptures as Figure and Landscape…
‘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…
‘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…
‘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…
‘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…
Art Gallery of South Australia Collection
‘Pat’ has been acquired by the Art Gallery of South Australia. Pat Corrigan is an Australian businessman, art collector and philanthropist…
Paddington Art Prize - UNSW Art & Design Award 2017
‘Painting 160 (Dunningham Reserve)’ was awarded the 2017 Paddington Art Prizes - UNSW Art & Design Award. The UNSW Art & Design Award gives Jones…
Pat Corrigan Collection
‘Painting 163 (Moonee beach)’ has been acquired by the Pat Corrigan Collection. Pat Corrigan is an Australian businessman, art collector and philanthropist and has been a long supporter of Jones’s career…
Pat Corrigan Collection
‘Painting 181 (Coogee)’ has been acquired by the Pat Corrigan Collection. Pat Corrigan is an Australian businessman, art collector and philanthropist and has been a long supporter of Jones’s career…
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…
Macquarie University Art Collection
Macquarie University Art Collection has acquired Alan Daniel Jones’ painting, ‘Corro’, of businessman and arts philanthropist Pat Corrigan. ‘Corro’ was a finalist in the prestigious 2013 Archibald Prize at the Art Gallery of New South Wales…
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…
‘Time and Place: Recent Collage’ - Anna Johnson
Alan Daniel 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…