Gemma Jones
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My practice explores the pictorial (modernist) and performative history within painting (Postmodernist) to create a ‘performed photography’ or ‘performed sculpture’. I explore the concepts of authenticity, femininity, masculinity and resistance often through themes of reality and surreality where a relationship between material and body interact. I blend methods of thought in motion, duration, rules, tasks, prepared visual scores and the re-use of performance actions from previous altered states to challenge the dialogue of performance art, sculpture and installation.In my practice I have two main strands of research that inform my work. Firstly, I explore the main dialogues between feminism and performance art/ contemporary art. Secondly, I examine the Methodology of performance art and its relation to non-literary or non-scripted theatre where I am concerned with methods of Thought in motion and altered states.
Contact me -
gemma_jones555@hotmail.co.uk
2015- 2018 BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking,
The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
2016 School of the Art Institute of Chicago USA
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Title TBC Asylum Gallery, Wolverhampton
Group Exhibitions
2019 SOUPptV Group Exhibition Stryx Gallery, Birmingham
2019 SOUPptV Curated Open Studios Stryx Gallery, Birmingham
2018 Open Studios Birmingham, EastSideProjects Birmingham
2018 Film screening Simply Beaming EMBASSY Gallery, Edinburgh
2018 Film screening Simply Beaming HOPE, Engaru, Hokkaido
2018 Group Exhibition, Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2018, Glasgow
2017 Group Exhibition Series three, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
2016 Group Exhibition 25 % Extra, The Arches, Glasgow
2016 Group Exhibition Pat Tested, McLennan Galleries Glasgow
2016 Group Exhibition Lets Limbo, SWG3, Glasgow
2015 Group Exhibition Foundation Degree Show, Warwickshire College, Leamington Spa
Group Performances
2019 Open Bodies, with Stephanie Black -Daniels Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
2018 SETS with Stephanie Black -Daniels SEXES Edinburgh College of Art convened by Dr Lucy Weir and Roberto Filippello.
2018 PETER BAREN - BLIND DATES WITH THE HISTORY OF MANKIND [RAGE AND TIME Tempting Failure Festival,London
Residencies
2019 Black Hole Club Artist Development Programme, Vivid Projects Birmingham
2019 SOUPptV Residency, Stryx Gallery, Birmingham
2018 Open Space, Performance Space, Folkstone
2018 Maruseppu Art Residency, Maruseppu, Hokkaido
Workshops Partaken
2019 A workshop With Amanda Coogan, Firkin Crane Cork
2017 DIY: Live Art Development Agency with Katherine Radeva, ‘Otherness’ Dublin, Ireland
2017 Enya Fortuna Performing & Play, House for an Art Lover Glasgow,
2017 Play, A workshop By Jo Fong, Tramway, Dance International Glasgow
2017 Paul Michael Henry The Dreaming Body, CCA Glasgow
Press
2018 Mansfield, Susan. Susan Mansfield on The Glasgow School of Art Degree show
The Scotsman June 2018