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Tim Jones

SELECTED WORKS

 
1962Born Clwyd, North Wales
1979-80 Studied, Wrexham School of Art, North Wales
1980-83 Bachelor of Arts (1st class Honours) Painting and Printmaking 
1983Arrived Australia
1984-85Postgraduate Diploma (with Distinction) Sculpture, VCA, Melbourne
1989-90Artist in residence, University of Melbourne
1993Arts Fellow, Sydney Grammar School, Darlinghurst, New South Wales
 Travelled Europe, Canada, USA
1994Artist in residence, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1997Artist in residence, City of Broken Hill Art Gallery, New South Wales
1997-2000Masters by Research, Monash University, Melbourne
2002Travelled Italy, UK, USA and Canada
2005Artist in Residence, Braemar College, Mt Macedon, Victoria


Solo Exhibitions

2007‘Tim Jones – Within the wood’, Falkner Gallery, Castlemaine, Victoria
2006‘New Work’, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2005‘I’ve been in love forever – A Survey Exhibition 1990 – 2005’, Stonnington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne
‘The woods between the worlds’, Woodbine Art Gallery, Malmsbury, Victoria
2004‘Blasted trees’, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Victoria
2002‘Within the woods’, Mitchelton Winery, Nagambie, Victoria
‘Irony in the wind’, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne
2001‘Pastoria – Landscape of the imagination’, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria
1999‘Billy grew on a tree, didn’t e’, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
1997‘Dumb birds and blasted trees’, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
‘Tim Jones (Prints)’, Watch This Space, Bendigo, Victoria
1995‘Tim Jones (Sculpture)’, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1994‘Graphic Work 84-94’, Sherman Galleries, Sydney
Mitchelton Print Award, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
‘Under Milk Wood’, Jan Jones Contemporary Art, Bowral, New South Wales
1993‘Into the twilight’, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale, Victoria
1992Tim Jones 2 & 3 Dimensional Work, Irving Galleries, Sydney
Out of the Woods, Installation, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1991Tim Jones Sculpture, Installation, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
Hanging Rock Drawings, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill, Victoria
1990Tim Jones Artist in Residence, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
‘Tim Jones’, Irving Galleries, Sydney
‘Tim Jones Sculpture’, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
‘Tim Jones’, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill, Victoria
2002-03_‘The beauty of hindsight’, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria

Group Exhibitions

2010'Artists' prints made with integrity', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2009'A Sculpture by...', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
'New Dawn's Crescendo', Australian Galleries, Melbourne
2008‘Against the grain’, Port Jackson Press, Melbourne
‘Print traditions - sources of Australian printmaking’, Geelong Gallery, Victoria
‘Who let the dogs out’, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, New South Wales; Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Gymea, New South Wales
2007‘Why the tree’, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
2006‘Extra-Aesthetic: 25 views of the Monash University Collection’, Monash University, Caulfield and Clayton, Victoria
2005‘Recent Acquisitions: Deakin University Art Collection’, ICON Museum of Art, Deakin University, Burwood
‘Art for Science’, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne
2004‘Contemporary Australian Prints from the Collection’, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
‘Giant: Ancient and historic trees’, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
2003‘McClelland Sculpture Survey’, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria
‘Against the grain’, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria
‘Back to the future’, Monash University Museum of Art Exhibition, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill, Victoria
2002‘Yarra arraY Sculpture Festival’, Birrarung Marr, Melbourne
‘Wildlife’, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
‘Jon Campbell’s Rock the Boat’, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill, Victoria
‘Works in glass bronze and wood’, amo artist made objects, Richmond
‘Central Goldfields Sculpture Prize and Exhibition’, Central Goldfields Art Gallery, Maryborough, Victoria
2001‘Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award’, Werribee Park, Victoria
‘Jon Campbell’s Rock the Boat’, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne
‘Point of departure’, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria
‘Old landscape: new garden’, Sculpture at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat, Victoria
‘Geelong Print Prize’, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria
‘Nillumbik Art Award’, The Barn Gallery Montsalvat, Eltham
2000‘Celebrating the exquisite corpse’, Bendigo Art Gallery, Victoria; and national tour
1999‘On The Road’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Victoria
1998‘Magic Realism’, Australian Galleries, Melbourne
‘Up the road: Contemporary artists out of the Victorian College of the Arts’, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
‘The Ladder-Maverick Arts’, Arts Victoria, Vista Hotel, Melbourne
1997‘In relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts & linocuts’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
‘Auto Art’, Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1996‘Nostalgic’, Monash University Gallery, Clayton, Victoria
1995‘Constructed city’, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, and national tour
‘Works on Paper’, Kyneton Collection Exhibition Space, Kyneton, Victoria
1993‘Excalibur: contemporary artists and Celtic heritage’, Geelong Art Gallery, Victoria
‘An Exhibition of wood engravings’, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne,
1992‘Dame Edna regrets she is unable to attend’, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Heidelberg, Victoria
‘Invitation Art Prize 1992 – Melbourne Art – Melbourne Artists’, The Melbourne Savage Club, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria
‘Domino I collaborations between artists’, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Australian Tour
‘Perspectives on Australian Landscape’, Australian Embassy, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
‘Southgate art exhibition’, Westpac Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
1991‘Recent Acquisitions (Works on Paper)’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
‘An Exhibition of Technologically Assisted Works of Art’, Monash studios and exhibition space, Collingwood, Victoria
‘A Selection from the University Art Collection’, The University of Melbourne Museum of Art, Melbourne, Victoria
‘Artworkz Three: The B.P. Australia Acquisitive Prize’, Caulfield Arts Centre, Caulfield, Victoria.
‘The Upside Down River’, The Australia Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
‘Contemporary Australian Art’, A & Z Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990‘New Acquisitions – Department of Prints and Drawings’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
‘South Lawn Sculpture Exhibition’, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
‘Recent Acquisitions’, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, Victoria
‘100 Artists Against Animal Experimentation’, Deutscher Gallery, Melbourne
‘Greenpeace fund raising exhibition’, Linden Gallery, St Kilda
‘New Art, Recent Contemporary Art Acquisitions’, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
‘Artists Under Saturn’, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
2006-07_‘Proof: Contemporary Australian Printmaking’, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne
2007-08_‘Australian Print Workshop: Impressions from Australia’, Australian Embassy, Washington D.C., USA
‘focus 5: leisure and pleasure’, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne
Group Show (with Anton Hassel), Irving Galleries, Sydney,
1991‘Society of British Wood Engravers 54th Exhibition’, U.K. Tour

Bibliography

Art Almanac, cover image, April 1990
“Peacock blue”, Vogue Living, May/June 2005
“The art for fine wine”, Herald Sun, 29 April 1994
“The artist’s vision… large and small”, Melbourne University Gazette, 1990
“Tribute blends with landscape”, The Wimmera Mail-Times, 17 December 2003
“Young look after contemporary art”, The Courier Mail, 10 April 1992
Backhouse, M., “Print prize – Visual arts”, The Age, 28 March 2001
Backhouse, M., “Magical and mysterious”, The Age, 15 October 1993
Bellamy, L., “Art takes hold when words fail”, The Age, 6 August 2005
Cant, S., “There’s bread to be made from brushing up on art”, The Age, 1991
Catalano, G., “Howard pursues our deepest fears”, The Age, 3 October 1990
Crawford, A., “Extra-Aesthetic: 25 views of the Monash University Collection”, The Sunday Age, Preview, 15 January 2006
Crawford, A., “Gothic and Perverse – Tim Jones”, Tension 21, June 1990
Erlich, R., “Dark designs out of a Welsh wood”, 1994
Fern, L., “The fantastic side of nature”, The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 April 1992
Gregg, S., “Tim Jones: The Woods Between the Worlds”, 2004
Gott, T., “Australianized Welsh lilt”, I’ve been in love forever, Stonington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University (exhibition catalogue), 2005
Gott, T., On The Road, Heide Museum of Modern Art (exhibition catalogue), 1999
Gott, T., “Antipodean Import – Tim Jones, Welsh wood engraver down under”, Imprint, Print Council of Australia
Healy, M., Tim Jones – Ian Potter Gallery, 1990
Heathcote, C., Magic Realism, Australian Galleries (exhibition catalogue), 1998
Heathcote, C., “Imagined worlds provide inspiration for a new movement”, The Age, December 1992
Hill, P., “Artists join together to extend their concerns”, The Age, 23 August 1990
Jones, T., Milk Wood Engravings and Sculpture, inspired by Dylan Thomas’ play for voices Under Milk Wood (exhibition catalogue), 1994
Jones, T., “It took me 12 months to fall in love with Australia”, Friends of the Victorian College of the Arts Newsletter, July-September, 1985
Lancashire, R., “Putting fun into the sculpture culture”, The Age, 9 July 1992
Lew, C., “A moveable feast of sculpture”, The Melbourne Times, 19 September 1991
Lindsay, F., “Tim Jones: Ancient myths and popular stories”, Art & Australia, Vol. 28 No. 1, Spring 1990
Lindsay, F., “Tim Jones, Artist-in-Residence”, University of Melbourne Gallery Society Bulletin, Vol. III, No. 2. 1990
Lindsay, F., “Tim Jones: Escape to the city”, Gallery, National Gallery Society, May 1990,
pp. 10-12
Lindsay, R., McClelland Survey & Award (exhibition catalogue), McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, September 2003
Long, J., “On The Road and Off the Planet”, Tim Jones Artist-in-Residence (exhibition catalogue), University of Melbourne, 1990
Makin, J., “Cultivating tree spirits”, Herald Sun, 15 August 2005
McKenzie, R., “Taking Sides”, Herald Sun, 15 December 1997
Nelson, R., “Talking to the trees”, Sightlines, The Age, September 2005
Nelson, R., “Nature’s grand old giants”, The Age, 7 January 2004
Nelson, R., “Bring out the big guns”, The Age, 8 October 2003
Nelson, R., “Bird’s-eye look at other world of trees”, The Age, 21 December 2002
Nelson, R., “Shedding pretensions”, The Age, 28 March 2001
Port, J., “Wine is art, art is wine”, The Age, 22 October. 1996
Riches, C., “Local artist on show in Bendigo”, Telegraph, 8 May 2001
Rooney, R., “A culture we should never exterminate”, The Australian, 4 July 1997
Rooney, R., “Cutting through the woods”, The Weekend Australian, 19-20 December 1992
Rooney, R., “Mix and matching wit with invention”, The Australian, 9 May 1990
“Sculpture for cultural site”, The Wimmera Mail-Times, 17 December 2003
Taylor, R., “In praise of the natural world”, World Sculpture News, Summer 2001
Taylor, R., “Transformations”, Asia-Pacific Sculpture News, Winter 1996
Tim Jones, Artist-in-Residence (exhibition catalogue), Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, 1990
Timms, P., “Cutting the wood for the trees”, The Age, 18 April 2001
Timms, P., “Seeing the Lleitmotif, however dark”, The Age, 2 December 1999
Timms, P., “Not all magic in this realism”, The Age, 12 August 1998
Virgo, A., “Tim Jones 1994 Mitchelton Print Award” (and cover image), Imprint, Print Council of Australia, Winter 1994
Ward, K., “Sublime silence”, Weekender, 19 May 2001
White, T., “The art of labelling”, The Australian Weekend Review 1996
Winter-Irving, C., “Images of passage”, Craft Arts International, No. 33, 1995
Zimmer, J., “From scrap heap to top of the heap’, The Sunday Herald, 13 May 1990

Awards

2007                ‘Red Tree’, Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, Chadstone Campus
                       Print Commission, The City of Yarra
2006-07           Community Totem, Hanging Rock Reserve, Macedon Shire Council
2006                ‘The Ornithologist’, VicUrban Commission, Valley Lakes, Niddrie
                       Print Commission, The City of Yarra
2003                ‘Scar Tree’, Horsham Rural City Council
2001                Print Commission, The City of Yarra
2000                New Works Grant, Arts Victoria
                       Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Award, for best designed book of 1999 (collaboration with Guy Mirabella)
1999-2000       Point Lonsdale Foreshore Development, D.R.N.E. (collaboration with Vernon Landscape Design)
1998-99           ‘Yabbie Pool – Meeting Place’, Yonka Creek, Broadmeadows, City of Hume (collaboration with Vernon Landscape Design)
1996                Cooper & Lybrand (collaboration with Joanne Croke)
                       Royal Australian Institute of Architects Commendation (collaboration with City Projects Design Branch)
                       ‘River God Fountain’, Fitzroy Gardens, City of Melbourne
1995                Bronze Memorial Plaque, Sydney Grammar
1994                Mitchelton Winery Print Award, Australian Print Workshop
                       ‘Sensory Fountain’, Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney
1994                Bourke Street Mall Project, City of Melbourne
1993                P.L.A.C.E. Dry Stone Wall and Earth Work, City of Keilor
1992                ‘The Spirit’, Eastern Entry, Southgate Complex
1991                Southern Stand, Melbourne Cricket Ground
1990                Awarded VA/CB Australia Council Project Grant

Collections

AGOS Collection, M.C.G.
Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery
BHP Collection
Burnie Regional Gallery
City of Keilor
Deakin University Art Collection
Diamond Valley Art Collection
Geelong Art Gallery
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery
Holmesglen Institute of TAFE
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Latrobe Regional Gallery
La Trobe University Art Collection
Macedon Ranges Council
McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park
Mildura Regional Gallery
Monash University Art Collection
Monash University Library – Rare Books Collection
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Ormond College
Queensland Art Gallery
Queensland University of Technology
State Library of Victoria
Sussan Corporate Collection
Swan Hill Regional Gallery
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
University of Melbourne Art Collection
Victorian College of the Arts
VicUrban
Vizard Foundation
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Warrnambool Art Gallery