Gabrielle Jones – Glimpse Catalogue

GABRIELLE JONES GLIMPSE GOSFORD REGIONAL GALLERY 19 JAN – 24 FEB 2019

GABRIELLE JONES GLIMPSE Gabrielle Jones presents a series of grand scale paintings in this body of new work.

As a process-based abstractionist and expressionist, Jones’s paintings serve as documentation of the performative act of painting, capturing the rhythm of movement, thoughts and recent experiences as they play out in real time in front of the canvas.

The work engages with colour and transparency to create depth, in a palette that borrows from those of the Old Masters, but with a modern twist.

The works in this catalogue riff on recently seen Rembrandt and Dutch Master paintings (AGNSW) and contemplate the surfaces, light and movement of the Indian, Baroque and Rococo works the artist experienced in travels during 2017. In particular, Jones addresses the speed, movement and image saturation of contemporary life – the “blur” – always part seen and part gone, especially as experienced through travel. She exploits the markmaking, haptic qualities of paint to express this (its ability to give the illusion of visceral force and substance within a 2D world), and contemplates many subjects, from the “Big Questions” (Heaven and Hell) to the prosaic (the qualities of paint itself), seeking images which are equally compelling, thereby reflecting the mashing up of information in this internet frenzied world we live in.

“Jones has a natural intuition for harmony and rhythm, creating canvases filled with bold, colourful brush strokes, deliberately

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imprecise. These create a macrocosm of tangible organic shapes, where unscripted lines dance in and out of Gabrielle Jones in her studio view, pulsing with an excitement that cannot be contained within their frames. They burst with a lush, rich intensity of colour, pushing deep tones back and pulling lighter marks forward. Each painting has its own rhythmic composition, underpinned by the musical influences in the artist’s studio practice -a driving force for her confident brushstrokes, conveying powerful deliberation behind spontaneous gesture and continual movement.

The forms reflect the ‘busy’ness of contemporary life and movement in travel; the lushness and beauty of the surfaces, colours and textures; and the spiritually emotive effect-of the Old Master paintings the artist was seeing daily.

“The result is a sense of ambience in weightless space creating moments of quiet in works that speak volumes. Underpinned by a maximalist ethos, these works give the viewer so much more that it is impossible to stand before the work without a quiet moment of awe.”

Sarah Randall, I Wanna be Adored, WestEnd Gallery, Melbourne 2017

SHORT BIO

Gabrielle Jones is an Australian abstract artist with an expansive exhibition history spanning 18 years. In addition to her solo exhibitions across Sydney, Melbourne and Perth and appointment as drawing instructor for the Sydney Biennale Events in 2012, Gabrielle has been awarded the Brentwood Art Prize (Acquisitive); the William Fletcher Trust Grant; and the Northbridge Art Prize. Jones has been short-listed for a number of art prizes including the the Mosman; Fleurieu Biennale; Duke Gold Coast; Muswellbrook; Paddington; Calleen; Fishers Ghost; Korea Art Foundation; as well as the Kedumba and Rick Amor Drawing Prizes. She has held two exhibitions at Grefti Cultural Projects in Italy; had a solo show at Goulburn and Gosford Regional Galleries, and

will also exhibit at Muswellbrook Art Centre later in 2019. Her work has been collected across public Australian institutions (Muswellbrook Regional Gallery, Bundanon Trust), as well as internationally by Fundacion Valparaiso, Spain and Art Scape Organisation, Toronto. Her work is held in private collections in London, New York, Italy, Canada, Spain, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Tahiti. Jones’s practice has seen her complete artist residencies abroad in Tahiti, Spain and Canada, as well as locally at the Tweed Regional Gallery and at Bundanon, the former home of Arthur Boyd.

Her paintings have appeared in two juried publications in the UK and USA in 2018. She completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from the National Art School in 2003.

ORPHEUS’S LAST PARTY (detail) oil and acrylic on canvas 122 x 122cm •

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ORPHEUS’S LAST PARTY oil on canvas 122 x 122cm •

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DANGEROUS DIVAS oil and acrylic on canvas 122 x 152cm •

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THE SOUND OF HERALDRY oil and acrylic on canvas 122 x 122cm •

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VAN RIJN’S FEAST II oil and acrylic on canvas 122 x 122cm •

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INTIMACY oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm •

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BELOVED URN oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm

MANDALA FOR THE MODERN AGE oil and acrylic on canvas 122 x 152cm •

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MY FAIR LADY oil and acrylic on canvas 138 x 112cm •

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POETRY OF OBJECTS oil and acrylic on canvas 138 x 112cm •

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SISYPHUS FALLS oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm •

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SPEAKING IN TONGUES oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm

JESTER oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm

ANGEL DANCE oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm •

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ZEITGEIST ZULU oil and acrylic on canvas 152 x 122cm •

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BOUNTY oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm

PIETA oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm •

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BIG ARCHIMBALDO oil and acrylic on canvas 152 x 122cm •

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EMERGE oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm

ITALIAN DREAMS oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm

LAVA OF LIFE oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm •

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SEABED BOUNTY oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm •

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PULSE oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm

RACE AGAINST TIME oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm

FUGITIVE oil and acrylic on canvas 40 x 40cm •

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GABRIELLE JONES GLIMPSE 19 JAN – 24 FEB 2019 GOSFORD REGIONAL GALLERY 36 Webb Street East Gosford Open 7 days 10:00am – 4:00pm

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AMAZING SPACE oil and acrylic on canvas 101 x 152cm front cover: MATERIAL WORLD oil on canvas 122 x 152cm