Stuart Jones

Stuart Jones has been working as an artist for over twenty years. Originally from the North West of England, he studied Fine Art at Leeds Metropolitan University and now lives and works out of his studio in Hertfordshire. Working mainly in oil paint and mixed media on canvas, his work is informed by the urban and rural landscape and ideas of utopia, dystopia and the sublime. He is currently a fellow at Digswell arts and was shortlisted for the Beep Painting Prize (2022), John Moores Painting Prize (2020) and awarded the Contemporary Arts Trust Prize (2019).

EDUCATION

2005 PGCE IN POST COMPULSORY EDUCATION (DISTINCTION), GREENWICH UNIVERSITY

1995 - 1998 BA (HONS) FINE ART (2:1), LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY

1994 - 1995 FOUNDATION DIPLOMA (DISTINCTION), WINSTANLEY COLLEGE

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2024 ‘Open Call’ group show, Brighton 2024 ‘Work in Progress’ joint show, Digswell arts gallery, Letchworth 2023 ‘A Fractured Glimpse’ joint show, Station Road, Letchworth 2023 ‘New Wave’, Spitalfields Studio, London, E1 5NF 2022 ‘New Paintings’ , Digswell Arts Gallery, Letchworth Garden City 2022 Beep Painting Prize 2022, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales 2022 Letchworth Open 2022, Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City 2022 ‘Carbon-Border-Voices’, Interdisciplinary online exhibition, www.carbon-borders-voices.com 2021 ‘The Push and The Land’ Pineapple Black Arts project space, Middlesbrough 2021 ‘Looks like it’s gunna rain’ Unit 15, Petty Cury, Cambridge