LUCY JONES: BIOGRAPHY

1955 Born, London.
1974/76 Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting.
1976/79 Camberwell School of Art (1st Class Honours).
1979/82 Royal College of Art (Master of Arts).

AWARDS, PRIZES & COMMISSIONS

1980 Cubitt Award for Painting.
1982 Anstruther Award for Painting.
1982/84 Rome Scholarship for Painting, the British School of Rome.
1986 Oppenheim - John Downes Memorial Trust.
1989 RA Summer Exhibition, Daler-Rowney Award for the best work in oil.
1989 Prize Winner - John Moore’s Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.
2002 The Cabinet Office, Admiralty Arch, London.
2002 Graham Young Print Prize, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition.
2018 Honorary Fellow of Hereford College of Art.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1986 Artist of the Day, Angela Flowers Gallery, London.
1987 Paintings and Drawings, Spitalfields Health Centre, in association with The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
1989 Angela Flowers Gallery, London.
1990 Lucy Jones on Lucy Jones, Drumcroon Art Education Centre, Wigan.
1991 Flowers East, London.
1995 New Paintings, Flowers East at London Fields, London.
1999 Flowers East, London & Flowers West, Santa Monica, California.
1999 It’s a Long Way to the Bottom of this Canvas, Flowers East, London.
1999 New Monoprints, Flowers Graphics, London.
1999 Looking at Self, Flowers East, London.
1999 Open Studio, Ludlow.
1999 Stepping Out Into the Beyond, Flowers East, London.
2009 Silk Top Hat Gallery, Ludlow.
2009 Landscape Song, Flowers Central, London.
2011 Reflections in a Landscape, Flowers, London.
2011 Reflections in a Landscape, Flowers, New York.
2013 Open Studio Exhibition, Shropshire.
2014 Lucy Jones, Kings Place, London.
2015 How did you get onto this canvas? Flowers Gallery New York.
2016 The Cycle of Life, Flowers Gallery London.
2019 Landscape and Inscape, Flowers Gallery London.
2019 Awkward Beauty, Attenborough Art Centre, Leicester.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1981 Stowells Exhibition, R.A.
1981 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
1983/84 Germinations, Trilateral Exhibition, Kassel, Edinburgh, London and Marseilles.
1984 London Group.
1984 10 Artisti della Accademia Britanica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome.
1984 The Image as Catalyst, McAlpine Gallery, Ashmolean Museum of Art, Oxford.
1986 Canvas, New British Painters, John Hansard Gallery, travelled to Milton Keynes City Art Gallery.
1986 Young Masters, The Solomon Gallery, London.
1986 Peter de Francia and artists who studied under him, Camden Arts Centre, London.
1987 New British Acquisitions, Metropolitan Museum, New York.
1988 Exhibition Road, Painters at the Royal College of Art, London.
1988 Invited Artist at Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London.
1988 Athena Art Awards, Barbican, London.
1989 XXI International Festival of Painting, Cagnes-sur-Mer, France.
1989 East End Open Studios, London.
1989 The Subjective City, Cleveland Gallery, Middlesborough and touring.
1989 Rome Scholars 1980-1990, Royal College of Art, London.
1989 3 Ways, Royal College of Art/British Council touring exhibition, Eastern Europe.
1989 Art London ‘90, Olympia, London. Painting commissioned for poster.
1989 Drumcroon, The First Ten Years, Drumcroon Education Art Centre, Wigan.
1989 Out of Ourselves, Diorama Gallery, London.
1989/90 Angela Flowers Gallery 1970-1990, Barbican Concourse Gallery, London. 
1990 16 Artists Process & Product, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, Greater Manchester. 
1990 Whitechapel Open Exhibition, London. 
1990 Chelsea School of Art Department of Painting, London.
1991 Shared Earth: An Exhibition of Contemporary Anglo/Soviet Landscapes, 
1991 City Museum & Art Gallery, Peterborough and UK tour and Museum of Decorative Arts, Moscow.
1992 Contemporary British Colourists, Gallery 10, London; Flying Colours Gallery, Edinburgh.
1992 Images of Hope and Disquiet, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester.
1992 Foregrounds and Distances, curated by Marina Vaizey, Galleria de Serpenti, Rome.
1992 Women Critics’ Choice of Women Artists, Bruton Street Gallery, London.
1992 Women’s Art at New Hall, Cambridge.
1992 Whitechapel Open Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
1992 Way Out West, Small Mansion Arts Centre, London.
1992/93 Portrait of the Artist’s Mother Done from Memory, Flowers East, London.
1993 Two Women Artists, Lucy Jones and Eileen Cooper, Collyer Bristow, London.
1993/94 Overcoming Obstacles, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery; Stockport Art Gallery; Towneley Hall Art Gallery and Museums, Burnley; Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool; Lancaster City Museum; Bury Art Gallery; Bolton Art Gallery and Museum.
1994 Inner Visions, Flowers East, London.
1995 The Twenty Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East at London Fields, London.
1995 John Moore’s Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (Prizewinner).
1995 An American Passion, The Susan Kasen Summer and Robert D Summer Collection of Contemporary British Art, Glasgow Museum of Art and Royal College Art, London.
1996 In the Looking Glass, Contemporary Self Portraits by Women Artists, Usher Gallery, Lincoln; Theatr Clwyd; Aberystwyth Arts Centre; Glynn Vivian, Swansea; Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Rochdale Art Gallery; City Art Gallery, Leicester.
1996 Wheels on Fire Cars in British Art 1960-1996, Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
1996 British Figurative Art, Part 1: Painting, Flowers East, London.
1998 New British Painting 1, Flowers West, Santa Monica, California.
1998 The Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
2000 Crusaid 2000, Edinburgh.
2001 The Hunting Art Prize exhibition, Royal College of Art, London.
2001 ART-TUBE 01, 42 Artists on 1 Piccadilly Line Tube Train, the London Underground.
2001 12 British Painters, Flowers West, Santa Monica, California.
2003 Artower Agora, Athens, Greece.
2003 New British Art Part 1, Flowers, New York.
2004 Hunting Art Prize, Royal College of Art, London.
2004 Singer and Friedlander / Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London.
2005 Face Value, Chelsea Art Gallery, Palo Alto, California.
2006 Singer and Friedlander / Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London.
2006 HEADS, Flowers East, London.
2006 The Naked Portrait, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh & Compton Verney, Warwickshire.
2006 '…same as it ever was’, Painting at Chelsea 1990 – 2006,2007 Chelsea College of Art, London.
2006 Ludlow Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Ludlow College, Ludlow.
2006 Threadneedle Figurative Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London.
2006 RWS/Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Bankside Gallery, London.
2006 40 Artists – 80 Drawings, The Drawing Gallery, Powys.
2006 The Threadneedle Prize, Mall Galleries.
2010 40 Years On, Flowers East, London.
2011 Flowers Edition, Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury.
2011 BODY, Queens Hall Arts, Hexham.
2012 Colourists, Flowers Cork Street, London.
2013 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London.
2013 Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Exhibition, Kings Place, London.
2018 Spirited – Women Artists from The Ingram Collection of Modern British Art, Berwick Visual Arts, Berwick-upon-Tweed.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Attenborough Art Centre, Leicester.
Arts Council Collection.
Ruth Borchard.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London.
Clifford Chance, London.
Contemporary Arts Society.
Deutsche Bank AG, London.
Drumcroon Education Art Centre, Wigan.
Government Art Collection.
Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston.
Ingram Collection.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
National Portrait Gallery, London.
New Hall, Cambridge.
Nordstern Collection, Cologne.
Rugby Art Gallery & Museum.
Sheffield City Art Gallery.
University Hospitals, Coventry & Warwickshire.
University of Hull.
University of Reading.
University of Southampton.
Usher Gallery, Lincoln.

TEACHING AND ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

1985/86 Artist in Residence, Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting, London.
1985/88 Visiting Tutor, Ruskin School, Oxford.
1985/89 Visiting Tutor, West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham.
1988 Workshop, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh.
1989 Visiting Tutor, Winchester School of Art, Winchester.
1984/90 Workshops at Drumcroon Art Education Centre, Wigan.
1985/99 Visiting Tutor, Chelsea College of Art and Design.
1992 to 2006 Tutor, Slade School of Art.

TELEVISION & RADIO

2001 Lucy Jones ‘Out of the Box’ by Jeremy Isaacs Productions for Artsworld Digital Channel, Producer Diane Tammes – repeated 2004.
2015 The Genius of Disabilities by Tom Shakespeare: Goya, Klee, Matisse, Lucy Jones BBC Radio 3.
2016 The Monocle Radio Lucy Jones Review by Kathlene Fox Davies.
2018 The Art of Living, Lucy Jones, Painter, by Tom Shakespeare, BBC Radio 4.

SELECTION PANELS

2006 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London.
2010 The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, Mall Galleries, London.

SELECTED REVIEWS & PUBLICATIONS

Sarah Kent, On final degree show at the Royal College of Art, Time Out, June 1982.
Marina Vaizey, At Canute’s Court, The Sunday Times, July 1982.
La Repubblica, July 1983.
L’Osservatore Romano, July 1983.
Margaret Garlake, Art Monthly No.82, The Image as Catalyst, December/January 1984/85.
Nigel Frank, Canvas 1: New British Painters, Arts Review, March 1986.
Artist of the Day, Harpers and Queen, June 1986.
William Packer, Artist of the Day, Financial Times, 1 July 1986.
John Ezard, Young Masterclass of 1986, YOU Magazine, July 1986.
Sarah Kent, Young Masters, Time Out, 9 September 1986.
Allen Robertson, Lucy Jones at Angela Flowers Gallery, Time Out, 11-18 November 1987.
Sunday Times Colour Magazine, photographed by Lord Snowdon.
Tim Hilton, Stages on the Exhibition Road, 16 March 1988.
Frances Spalding, Painter of the Year, Harpers and Queen, January 1989.
Marina Vaizey, Lucy Jones, Catalogue essay, Angela Flowers Gallery, 1989.
Alistair Hicks, Survivors and Debtors, The Times, 4 April 1989.
Andrew Hughes, Lucy Jones at Angela Flowers Gallery, Arts Review, April 1989.
Robert MacDonald, Time Out, 19 May 1989.
Marina Vaizey, Why British Art is bigger and better than ever, The Sunday Times, 11 June 1989.
Sarah Jane Checkland, The Art of Staying in the Picture, The Times, 14 July 1989.
Sue Hubbard, Lucy Jones at Angela Flowers Gallery, ALBA, Summer 1989.
Tom Lubbock, Imagery Reclaimed, Independent on Sunday, 18 February 1990.
Robert Clark, Lucy Jones, The Guardian, 27 March 1990.
Keith Walker, Lucy Jones on Lucy Jones, catalogue essay, Drumcroon Education Arts Centre, Wigan 1990.
Duncan Hadfield, Subjective City, The Architects Journal, 15 August 1990.
Sister Wendy Beckett, Shared Earth catalogue essay, March 1991.
Antique & New Art Magazine, Spring 1991.
Alistair Hicks, Lucy Jones, Catalogue essay, Flowers East, April 1991.
Sue Hubbard, Drawing on her own Life, The Guardian, 25 April 1991.
Sue Hubbard, Lucy Jones at Flowers East, Time Out, 8 - 15 May 1991.
John Russell Taylor, This is Wondrous Strange, The Times, May 1991.
Mary Rose Beaumont, Machinery of War, 14 May 1991.
Sue Hubbard, Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, Time Out, 13 - 20 January 1991.
Petronilla Silver, The Art Collector, October 1992.
Marina Warner, Women’s Art at New Hall, catalogue essay, September 1992.
Foregrounds and Distances, catalogue essay, March 1992.
Sister Wendy Beckett, Mary Rose Beaumont, Marina Vaizey, Women Critics select Women Artists, catalogue essay, June 1992.
Angela Neustatter, Flowers Power, The Guardian, 9 February 1995.
Galleries, ES Magazine, Nicholas Drake, 14 July 1995.
William Packer, Artists experience their 24 hours of fame, Financial Times, 18 July 1995.
Arte Esterica, 1/96, Anno III, illustration p.36 & 39.
Frank Whitford, Pick of the Week, Sunday Times, 26 January 1997.
Sarah Kent, Time Out, 5-12 February 1997.
William Packer, True to Herself, The Financial Times, 11 February 1997.
William Packer, Catalogue, Flowers East 1999.
Art, Lucy Jones, Evening Standard, 6 April 1999.
David Gleeson, Time Out, 24-31 January 2001.
Fisun Guner, Metro, 9 August 2001.
From Tomorrow, Art- Lucy Jones, Evening Standard, 5 January 2001.
Lucy Jones, Time Out, 24 January 2001.
Chance to see why New York loves Lucy, The Advertiser, 12 February 2004.
‘…same as it ever was’, Painting at Chelsea 1990 – 2007, Chelsea College of Art, London.
Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, 10 May 2008.
Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, 20 December 2008.
Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, Visual Arts, 26 March 2011.
Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, Visual Arts, 25 January 2012.
Peter Plagens, The Good, the Bad and the Inspiring, The Wall Street Journal, 7 January 2012.
BP Portrait Award Winners, Estelle Lovatt, Art of England, August 2013.
Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, 27/28 April 2013.
Watercolour, Emily Tobin, House and Gardens, September 2014.
Jackie Wullschlager, Financial Times, Visual Arts, 1/2 February 2014.
Philip Vann, Art Highlights, Kings Place, December 2013 – March 2014.
Priscilla Frank, Artist Lucy Jones’ Unapologetic Self-Portraits Shatter Perceptions Of Disability, Huffington Post US, 28 April 2015.
Modern Painter  April 2015 New York.
Daniel Gauss, “How did you get on this canvas?” Lucy Jones at Flowers Gallery, Arte Fuse, April 2015.
Susan Mulder, Lucy Jones at Flowers Gallery, April 2015.
Anna McNay, Studio International, 19 April 2016.

Solo Books

2006 Lucy Jones, Looking at Self, published on the occasion of the exhibition at Flowers East, London, with texts by John Kirby, Sue Hubbard, Judith Collins and Frank Whitford.
2008 Lucy Jones, Stepping Out into a World Beyond, published on the occasion of the exhibition at Flowers East, London, with texts by William Packer, Matthew Collings and Lucy Jones.

Selected Books

1988 Exhibition Road, Painters at the Royal College of Art, London on the occasion for the 150th Anniversary published by Phaidon.
1990 20th Century Painters and Sculptors: 006 (Dictionary of British Art), published by Antique Collectors Club Ltd, written by Frances Spalding and Judith Collins.
1996 In the looking glass: An exhibition of contemporary self-portraits by women artists. Interviews by Judith Collins. Essay by Michele Roberts and Alison Thomas.
2002 British contemporary landscape oil, published by Hubei Fine Arts, written by Bu Xiang.
2006 The Portrait Now published by the National Portrait Gallery and written by Sandy Nairne and Sarah Howgate.
2007 The Naked Portrait 1900 to 2007, published National Gallery of Scotland and written by Martin Hammer.
2004 Face to Face: British Self-Portraits in the Twentieth Century published by Ansom & Co., Bristol and written by Philip Vann.
2018 Madam & Eve Women: Portraying Women, edited by Liz Rideal and Kathleen Soriano and published by Laurence King Publishing.