A LA N JO N ES TIME A N D PLA C E : RE C E N T C O LLA G E
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A LA N JO N ES TIME A N D PLA C E : RE C E N T C O LLA G E 2 – 20 November 2016
Cover: Alan Jones, Painting 164 (Moonee Beach), 2016 acrylic on board, 83.5 x 90cm, $5,900 Right: Alan Jones, Painting 172 (Moonee Beach), 2016, acrylic on board, 112.5 x 70cm, $6,000
Alan 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. These are scenes that seem so familiar they almost form a collective memory: an empty beach before rain, the churned sand of footsteps, a windswept sweep of turf, the vast everyday sky. But upon closer inspection the materials are more mutable. Less predicted. Re-invented. Pale sunlight is in fact wood grain, the sharp limbs of a tree have been laser cut, the ‘working parts’ of the landscape fit together like a puzzle because each work is a painted wooden collage. Generated after a major expedition to Moonee Beach with a collective of major Australian painters, these works have a coastal source but have landed far, far afield from the tradition of an easel in the round.
“Landscape for me is a starting process. It is a place to begin. In a way these works feel like the most abstract things I have ever done. I am so removed from the formal constraints of the landscape. Unlike a laboured canvas, I work quickly and intensely on each assembled piece. The sheer surface of untreated ply allowed for an immediacy and freshness that felt like working on a sketch pad. The weight of accuracy disappeared. And when I am painting I don’t think about the lineage of history, I don’t care much for it…instead I enjoy experimenting.” The reward for stepping outside the frame of oil on canvas is a strangely renewed intimacy with the scenery. By renting each element from the hinge of a continuous flat plane, the whole is rebuilt in a composition of brilliant fragments; grass glitters like shards, waves swell like concave shells and the horizon line cuts deep. Minimal and intricate, graphic and atmospheric, these are works which summon a sense of perpetual return. Like a peripheral glimpse, like a snapshot or like something much more personal: a sense of place built in memory, a view that’s forty summers long. Anna Johnson 2016
From left: Alan Jones, Painting 202 (Port Douglas), 2016 acrylic on board, 88 x 90cm, $6,000. Alan Jones, Painting 201 (Cairns), 2016, acrylic on board, 90 x 90cm, $6,000.
From left: Alan Jones, Painting 198 (Port Douglas), 2016 acrylic on board, 86 x 90cm, $5,900. Alan Jones, Painting 189 (Port Douglas), 2016, acrylic on board, 88 x 90cm, $6,000.
From left: Alan Jones, Painting 179 (Coogee), 2016, acrylic on board, 86.5 x 90cm, $5,900. Alan Jones, Painting 190 (Coogee), 2016, acrylic on board, 80 x 90cm, $5,600.
From left: Alan Jones, Painting 203 (Coogee), 2016, acrylic on board, 89.5 x 90cm, $6,000. Alan Jones, Painting 180 (Coogee), 2016, acrylic on board, 86.5 x 90cm, $5,900.
Opposite: Alan Jones, Painting 165 (Moonee Beach), 2016, acrylic on board, 120.5 x 130cm, $9,900.
Alan Jones, Painting 186 (Moonee Beach), 2016, acrylic on board, 87 x 90cm, $5,900.
Alan Jones, Painting 175 (Moonee Beach), 2016, acrylic on board, 80 x 80cm, $5,200.
Alan Jones, Painting 174 (Moonee Beach), 2016, acrylic on board, 77.5 x 90cm, $5,500.
Alan Jones, Painting 169 (Moonee Beach), 2016, acrylic on board, 67.5 x 90cm, $4,950.
Alan Jones, Painting 210 (Moonee Beach), 2016, acrylic on board, 62 x 64cm, $4,000.
Alan Jones, Painting 208 (Moonee Beach), 2016, acrylic on board, 62 x 64cm, $4,000.
Alan Jones, Painting 207 (The Domain), 2016, acrylic on board, 86 x 90cm, $5,900.
ALAN JONES Education 2000 - ‘Bachelor of Fine Arts’, National Art School (NAS), Sydney 1995-97 - ‘Advanced Diploma of Fine Arts’, National Art School (NAS), Sydney 1994 - ‘Drawing’, Collage of Fine Arts (COFA), Sydney Solo Exhibitions 2016 - ‘Time and Place: Recent Collage’, Olsen Irwin, Sydney 2015 - ‘Paintings from Coogee’, Olsen Irwin, Sydney 2013 - ‘Paper and Wood: Collecting Ideas’, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, Maitland, New South Wales (curated by Cheryl Farrell) 2013 - ‘Album Paintings’, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong 2012 - ‘New South Wales’, Watters Gallery, Sydney 2012 - ‘The Mother Land’, The Fine Art Society Contemporary, London 2012 - ‘The Mother Land’, Artspace, The Ropewalk, North Lincolnshire, United Kingdom 2012 - ‘Recent Paintings and Drawings’, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, New South Wales 2011 - ‘Wyalkatchem’, Venn Gallery, Perth 2011 - ‘That’s the Way It Is’, Blockprojects, Melbourne 2010 - ‘The Sharing Family’, Watters Gallery, Sydney 2009 - ‘Self and Destruction’, Blockprojects, Melbourne 2009 - ‘Crime and Punishment’, Legge Gallery, Sydney 2008 - ‘On the Rock ‘n’ Roll’, Legge Gallery, Sydney 2007 - ‘The Joneses’, Legge Gallery, Sydney 2007 - ‘Alan Jones’, Renault New Generation Art with James Makin Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne 2007 - ‘Paintings from Windsor’, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne 2006 - ‘The Human Show’, Legge Gallery, Sydney 2004 - ‘Paintings and Drawings’, Legge Gallery, Sydney 2004 - ‘Collecting the Motif’, Chapman & Bailey, Melbourne 2003 - ‘Alan Jones - Artist-in-residence’, Aikenhead Gallery, Melbourne 1999 - ‘Drawings from Dural to Alice’, Global Gallery, Sydney
Group Exhibitions 2016 - 'Paddington Art Prize', 111-113 Queen Street, Woollahra, Sydney 2016 - ‘Paint My Place’, Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery, Coffs Harbour, New South Wales (curated by Abigail Moncrieff) 2016 - ‘Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize’, Riverside Centre, Brisbane 2016 - ‘John Leslie Art Prize’, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria 2016 - ‘Archibald Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2016 - ‘Equus’, Olsen Irwin, Sydney (curated by Edward Hoddle and Kate Smith) 2016 - ‘Private Lives, the artist as collector’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney 2016 - ‘Self portraits on paper’, The Yellow House, Sydney (curated by Gavin Wilson) 2016 - ‘Blake Prize’, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney 2016-17 - ‘Awesome Achievers: Stories from Australians of the Year’, (National Portrait Gallery touring exhibition) Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, New South Wales, Manning Art Gallery, Victoria, Maitland Regional Art Gallery, New South Wales, Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Queensland, Toowoomba Regional Art Gallery, Queensland 2015 - ‘A Summer Exhibition’, Olsen Irwin, Sydney 2015 - ‘Gold Coast Art Prize’, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise 2015 - 'Paddington Art Prize', 111-113 Queen Street, Woollahra, Sydney 2015 - 'The Art of Shakespeare', (touring exhibition) Sofitel, Melbourne, Parliament House, Canberra and Sydney Opera House, Sydney 2015 - ‘Sydney Contemporary’ with Olsen Irwin, Carriageworks, Sydney 2015 - ‘The King’s School Art Prize’, The King’s School, Sydney 2015 - ‘Mosman Art Prize’, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney 2015 - ‘Mugshot, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, New South Wales 2015 - ‘Art15’ with Olsen Irwin, Olympia National, London 2015 - ‘Miscellanea’, Olsen Irwin, Sydney 2015 - ‘Stations of the Cross’, McGlade Gallery, Australian Catholic University, Sydney 2014 - ‘Summer Theme and Variations’, Olsen Irwin, Sydney 2014 - ‘Kilgour Prize’, Newcastle Art Gallery, Newcastle 2014 - ‘Redland Art Prize’, Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland, Queensland 2014 - ‘Landscapes: Ways of Looking’, Olsen Irwin, Sydney 2014 - ‘Melbourne Art Fair’ with Olsen Irwin, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne 2014 - ‘Archibald Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
2014 - ‘Group Show’, Olsen Irwin, Sydney 2014 - ‘Monuments to the Frontier Wars’, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney 2014 - ‘Gallipoli Art Prize’, Gallipoli Memorial Club, Sydney 2014 - ‘Alan Jones and David Griggs: From the Archive’, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, New South Wales 2014 - ‘Affordable Art Fair’ with The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong 2014 - ‘Collector’s Space 2014’, 101 William Street in conjunction with Art Month, Sydney 2013 - ‘Australia: Contemporary Voices’, The Fine Art Society Contemporary, London (curated by Geoffrey Cassidy) 2013 - ‘Mosman Art Prize’, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney 2013 - ‘Autoportrait’, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, New South Wales 2013 - ‘Archibald Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2013 - ‘Art 13 London’ with The Fine Art Society Contemporary, Olympia Grand Hall, London 2013 - ‘Eternity’, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney 2013 - ‘Quintessential Australia’, Olsen Irwin, Sydney (curated by Leo Robba) 2012 - ‘John Leslie Art Prize’, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria 2012 - ‘Insight’, Studio 15, The Ropewalk, North Lincolnshire 2012 - ‘Signal 8: STORM’, The Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong 2012 - ‘Melbourne Art Fair’ with Watters Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne 2012 - ‘Mosman Art Prize’, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney 2012 - ‘The Waterhouse Natural History Art Prize’, South Australian Museum, Adelaide 2012 - ‘Waverley Art Prize’, Waverley-Woollahra Art School, Sydney 2012 - ‘The Kedumba Collection of Contemporary Australian Drawing’, Orange Regional Gallery, New South Wales 2012 - ’Fowlers Gap - 13 artists paint the desert’, Stella Downer Fine Art, Sydney 2012 - ‘Not the Way Home’, (touring exhibition) S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Melbourne Art Fair, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne and Buratti Fine Art, Perth (curated by Owen Craven) 2012 - ‘Melbourne Sculpture Prize’, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne 2012 - ‘The Alice Prize’, Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 2012 - ‘Gallipoli Art Prize’, Gallipoli Memorial Club, Sydney 2012 - ‘Salon des Refusés’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney 2012 - ‘Reload’, Gallery Ecosse, Exeter, New South Wales
2012 - ‘Realistic Landscape’, Watters Gallery, Sydney 2012 - ‘Summer Show’, Venn Gallery, Perth 2011 - ‘Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise 2011 - ‘Hawkesbury Art Prize’, Purple Noon Gallery, Sydney 2011 - ‘Fishers Ghost Art Award’, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney 2011 - ‘City of Perth Black Swan Prize for Portraiture’, Perth Town Hall, Perth 2011 - ‘Pat Corrigan Collector’, Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland, New South Wales (curated by Cheryl Farrell) 2011 - ‘Mosman Art Prize’, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney 2011 - ‘Self Portraits’, China Heights Gallery, Sydney (curated by Paul Davies) 2011 - ‘Frank’s Flat’, Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland, New South Wales (curated by Geoffrey Legge and Sonia Legge) 2011 - ‘Salon des Refusés’, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney 2011 - ‘Stations of the Cross’, St Ives Uniting Church, Sydney 2011 - ‘Head’, Utopia Art Sydney, Sydney 2011 - ‘Wattle’, The Cat Street Gallery at The Space, Hong Kong (curated by Kate Bryan) 2010 - ‘Works on Paper – Recent acquisitions from the MRAG collection’, Maitland Regional Gallery, Maitland, New South Wales (curated by Cheryl Farrell) 2010 - ‘Interpreting Portraits: Macquarie 1810-2010’, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Sydney 2010 - ‘Stan and Maureen Duke Gold Coast Art Prize, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise 2010 - ‘Hands On - Craft in Contemporary Art’, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, Gymea, New South Wales (curated by Cash Brown) 2010 - ‘Summer Exhibition’, Watters Gallery, Sydney 2010 - ‘Fishers Ghost Art Award’, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney 2010 - ‘Kedumba Drawing Award’, Kedumba Gallery, Wentworth Falls, New South Wales 2010 - ‘Cultural Imperialism’, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Sydney 2010 - ‘John Leslie Art Prize’, Gippsland Art Gallery, Sale, Victoria 2010 - ‘Melbourne Art Fair’ with Watters Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne 2010 - ‘Art of Music’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2010 - ‘Art Month Sydney’, Watters Gallery, Sydney 2009 - ‘Summer Exhibition’, Watters Gallery, Sydney
2009 - ‘Look At Me!’, Albury Art Gallery, New South Wales (curated by Caryn Giblin) 2009 - ‘The King’s School Art Prize’, The King’s School, Sydney 2009 - ‘Family Guy’, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, New South Wales (curated by Brett Adlington) 2009 - ‘Waiting – A Still Life’, NG Art Gallery, Sydney 2009 - ‘On Rage’, Jan Murphy Gallery, Brisbane (curated by Ben Quilty) 2009 - ‘Soft Animators’, Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre, Canberra (curated by Jason Hugonnet) 2009 - ‘Collections’, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Sydney 2009 - ‘Works on Paper’, Legge Gallery, Sydney 2009 - ‘No Identifiable Culture’, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney 2008 - ‘A History of Violence’, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Surfers Paradise 2008 - ‘Paddington Art Prize’, Mary Place Gallery, Sydney 2008 - ‘Tattersall’s Club Landscape Art Prize’, Tattersall’s Club and Waterfront Place, Brisbane 2008 - ‘Melbourne Art Fair’ with Legge Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne 2008 - ‘Sordid Tales - A History of Chippendale’, NG Art Gallery, Sydney 2008 - ‘Winter Collection’, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne 2008 - ‘Metro 5 Art Award’, (touring exhibition) Metro 5 Gallery, Melbourne and Benalla Regional Art Gallery, Victoria 2008 - ‘The Coloured Digger 2’, Damien Minton Gallery, Sydney 2008 - ‘Autumn Collection’, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne 2008 - ‘The Led Zeppelin World Tour’, (touring exhibition) S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney and Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Victoria (curated by Steven Alderton) 2007 - ‘Summer Show’, Legge Gallery, Sydney 2007 - ‘Memento Mori – Art Exchange Project’, The Blkmrkt Project, Southport, Queensland 2007 - ‘Art Sydney 07’ with James Makin Gallery, Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney 2007 - ‘Art Sydney 07’ with Legge Gallery, Royal Hall of Industries, Sydney 2007 - ‘1999-2006 Winners Exhibition’, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney 2007 - ‘Whyalla Art Prize’, Middleback Theatre, Whyalla, South Australia 2007 - ‘Mount Buller Art Prize’, Mount Buller Village, Victoria 2007 - ‘There Is No Place Like Home’, NG Art Gallery, Sydney 2007 - ‘Western Front: Synthetic Spaces’, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Sydney (curated by Kathleen von Witt)
2007 - ‘Adelaide Perry Prize for Drawing’, Adelaide Perry Gallery, Sydney 2007 - ‘Works on Paper - Ferguson, Frost, Jones, Liiri and Randall’, Legge Gallery, Sydney 2007 - ‘Natura Morte’, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne 2006 - ‘Paddington Art Prize’, Michael Nagy Fine Art, Sydney 2006 - ‘The Year in Art’, National Trust S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney 2006 - ‘Summer Show’, Legge Gallery, Sydney 2006 - ‘Urban Theme’, Legge Gallery, Sydney 2006 - ‘Melbourne Art Fair’ with Legge Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne 2006 - ‘Melbourne Art Fair’ with Port Jackson Press Australia, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne 2006 - ‘Winter Collection’, James Makin Gallery, Melbourne 2006 - ‘Art Sydney 06’ with James Makin Gallery, Hordern Pavilion, Sydney 2006 - ‘Works on Paper’, Legge Gallery, Sydney 2006 - ‘Group Exhibition’, Port Jackson Press Australia, Melbourne 2005 - ‘Summer Show’, Legge Gallery, Sydney 2005 - ‘Banyule Works on Paper Art Award’ Banyule Art Space, Melbourne 2005 - ‘Packsaddle’, New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale 2005 - ‘Sulman Prize’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney 2005 - ‘Winter Collection’, Port Jackson Press Australia, Melbourne 2005 - ‘Exposition Collective’, Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris 2005 - ‘Flavour’, Australian High Commission and United Galleries at Art Loft, Singapore 2004 - ‘Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship’, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney 2004 - ‘Melbourne Art Fair’ with Legge Gallery, Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne 2004 - ‘Open Day’, the private collection of Pat Corrigan A.M., Art Gallery of New South Wales Society, Sydney 2004 - ‘In-House’, Chapman & Bailey, Melbourne 2004 - ‘Untitled’, Legge Gallery, Sydney 2003 - ‘Summer Show’, Legge Gallery, Sydney 2002 - ‘Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship’, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney 2001 - ‘Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship’, Brett Whiteley Studio, Sydney 2001 - ‘Open Day’, the private collection of Pat Corrigan A.M., Art Gallery of New South Wales Society, Sydney
2001 - ‘Bus-iness’, Shoe Box Gallery, Sydney 2000 - ‘Maitland Art Prize’, Thomas Morgan Pavilion, Maitland, New South Wales 2000 - ‘Mandorla Art Award’, New Norcia Museum and Art Gallery, New Norcia, Western Australia 2000 - ‘Objects of Desire’, First Gallery, Sydney 2000 - ‘Willoughby Art Prize’, Willoughby Civic Centre, Sydney 1999 - ‘Waverly Art Prize’ Waverley Woollahra Arts Centre, Sydney 1999 - ‘Mosman Youth Art Prize’, Mosman Art Gallery and Cultural Centre, Sydney 1998 - ‘Alumni Exhibition’, Cell Block Theatre, Sydney 1998 - ‘la Pommerie’, St. Setiers Galerie, France 1998 - ‘Bull Dust’, First Gallery, Sydney 1997 - ‘National Art School Graduate Show’, Cell Block Theatre, Sydney Residencies 2016 - Moonee Beach, Coffs Harbour, Australia (in association with Coffs Harbour Regional Gallery) 2012 - The Ropewalk, Barton Upon Humber, United Kingdom 2011 - UNSW Arid Zone Research Station, Fowlers Gap, Australia 2005 - Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France 2003 - St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Australia 1998 - la Pommerie, St. Setiers, France Awards 2015 - Mosman Art Prize 2014 - Kilgour Prize 2013 - Allan Gamble Memorial Art Prize 2012 - John Leslie Art Prize - 2nd Prize 2012 - Waverley Art Prize - Landscape Prize 2011 - Fisher’s Ghost Art Award 2011 - Janet Holmes à Court Artist Grant 2010 - Kedumba Drawing Award 2008 - Paddington Art Prize 2004 - Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship 2001 - Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship - Highly Commended 1997 - Inaugural Pat Corrigan Travelling Scholarship for Painting
Collections Artbank Campbelltown Arts Centre Gold Coast City Art Gallery Hawkesbury Regional Gallery Kedumba Collection of Contemporary Australian Drawing Macquarie Group Maitland Regional Art Gallery Mosman Art Gallery National Art School National Portrait Gallery Pat Corrigan Collection St. Vincent’s Hospital
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