Lucy Jones: Exhibitions and Book Launch
"Landscape and Inscape"
An exhibition of new paintings, including a portrait of artist Grayson Perry, commissioned by the University of Leicester, which will be displayed for the first time.
Open: 23 May - 6 July 2019
Flowers Gallery, 21 Cork Street, London W1S 3LZ
Book Launch
The exhibition coincides with the release of a new publication titled Awkward Beauty. Illustrated with over 100 colour plates, the book demonstrates Lucy’s broad emotional range, from densely chromatic and vigorously wrought vistas painted in the British countryside, to her raw and powerfully expressive presentations of the figure, addressing the vulnerabilities and the strengths of her own disabilities, and society’s way of viewing difference in others.
Published by Elephant (23 May). To pre-order please click here.
The Cork Street exhibition is followed by an extensive retrospective of Lucy's work at the Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, in three substantial spaces. This exhibition takes on the name of the book
"Awkward Beauty"
Open: Saturday 26 July to 29 October
Attenborough Arts Centre, University of Leicester, Lancaster Road, LE1 7HA
Lucy Jones: Awkward Beauty
Lucy is renowned for her raw, wild landscapes and distinctively provocative self-portraits, characterised by expressive brushwork and vibrant colour.
Balancing an intricate rendering of line and space in her landscapes with the powerful simplicity of her portraits, her paintings conduct a journey through both interior landscapes and the external world beyond.
Landscapes and Inscapes, an exhibition of new landscape and portrait paintings, includes a portrait of artist Grayson Perry, commissioned by the Attenborough Arts Centre (University of Leicester) which will be displayed for the first time.
The exhibition also coincides with the publication of a new book, Awkward Beauty, published by Elephant (23 May 2019). Awkward Beauty is the first publication to draw together both her portraits and landscape paintings from the past twenty-five years.
In her self-portraits, (for example With a Handicap Like Yours...) Lucy's revealing and defiant portrayal of her own body addresses ideas of femininity, aging and disability. Both personal and political, they address both the fragility and strength of the body, and society’s way of viewing difference in others.
In recent years, she has also turned her attention to creating portraits of other people, working with male subjects close to her.
Writer and Art Critic Philip Vann has described Lucy’s transformative vision of humanity as showing:
“the inextricable dignity and vulnerability of other people, friends, loved ones and the artist herself - explored with a rare, expansive clarity, vibrancy and originality”.
