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Jonathan Jones

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Jonathan Jones (born 1978) is a Sydney-based Indigenous Australian artist who has made extensive contributions to the contemporary Aboriginal art scene in Australia. The Art Gallery of NSW and the National Gallery of Victoria have acquired works by Jones. Jones was a recipient of a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, an award of given to mid-career creatives and thought leaders. Early life Jones was born in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1978, but spent parts of his early life in Bathurst and a small town near Tamworth. Jones is a member of the Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi peoples of south-east Australia, and his identity as an Indigenous artist has become central to his practice. Jones' grandmother encouraged him to explore his heritage, and this process of self-learning formed the foundations of his artistic career. His grandmother was a very influential figure in his life who taught him to be proud of his heritage. These sentiments have informed his purpose as a creator of public art installations, and can be seen through his poignant interventions into sites around Sydney, which he reveals have deeper histories than the colonial ones present in the national popular imagination. Practice Jones is based in Sydney. He is a multi-disciplinary artist, working with a range of different materials and technologies to create installations, interventions, public artwork, prints, drawings, sculpture and film. While Jones works across a wide range of media, his intentions are consistently explicit. Jones is known for his use of everyday materials in minimal, repeated forms as a way to explore Indigenous traditions and perspectives. This motif of minimalist, linear forms represent both the traditional and the contemporary. Jones' fascination with this dichotomy has deeply informed his work, and has led him to pursue projects which reveal connections between a site's historical and current usage. In order to realise these projects, Jones’ work is often grounded in research and collaboration with other artists and remote communities to develop art that acknowledges local knowledge systems and specific concerns.

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Jonathan Jones (born 1978) is a Sydney-based Indigenous Australian artist who has made extensive contributions to the contemporary Aboriginal art scene in Australia. The Art Gallery of NSW and the National Gallery of Victoria have acquired works by Jones. Jones was a recipient of a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, an award of given to mid-career creatives and thought leaders. Early life Jones was born in Sydney, New South Wales, in 1978, but spent parts of his early life in Bathurst and a small town near Tamworth. Jones is a member of the Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi peoples of south-east Australia, and his identity as an Indigenous artist has become central to his practice. Jones' grandmother encouraged him to explore his heritage, and this process of self-learning formed the foundations of his artistic career. His grandmother was a very influential figure in his life who taught him to be proud of his heritage. These sentiments have informed his purpose as a creator of public art installations, and can be seen through his poignant interventions into sites around Sydney, which he reveals have deeper histories than the colonial ones present in the national popular imagination. Practice Jones is based in Sydney. He is a multi-disciplinary artist, working with a range of different materials and technologies to create installations, interventions, public artwork, prints, drawings, sculpture and film. While Jones works across a wide range of media, his intentions are consistently explicit. Jones is known for his use of everyday materials in minimal, repeated forms as a way to explore Indigenous traditions and perspectives. This motif of minimalist, linear forms represent both the traditional and the contemporary. Jones' fascination with this dichotomy has deeply informed his work, and has led him to pursue projects which reveal connections between a site's historical and current usage. In order to realise these projects, Jones’ work is often grounded in research and collaboration with other artists and remote communities to develop art that acknowledges local knowledge systems and specific concerns.

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