BIOGRAPHY
Lisa Jones was born in London and educated at Wimbledon School of Art and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Following her move to Sydney in 2002 and a masters degree at Sydney College of the Arts, Jones' work has expanded to include such mediums as laser-cut acrylic, felt, hand-sawn timber, cast silicon and drawing on paper, through which she continues her on-going explorations of the human body and its relationship with the everyday.
In 2008 Jones received an Emerging Artist New Works Grant from the Australia Council for the Arts and was selected as a finalist in the ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award. The following year Form Gallery in Perth held a retrospective of her recent work and Loughborough University's symposium, Cutting Edge: Lasers and Creativity included a paper of Jones' explorations using laser-cut acrylic / drawing collages.
Her drawings transform both organs and systems. Using the images of body parts, maps and other systematic representations as formal compositional elements, actual maps of city transport systems Jones' drawings are interwoven with the imagined and realistic images of body organs, creating an imaginary system of networks and relationships.
The intricacies of nature and interrelated societal systems are both balanced and contrasting - whilst based on a logical dynamic they are equally enigmatic. The perpetual connection between systems of the human body and both the natural and constructed world illustrates the complexities of human existence.
Jones' most recent solo show Replicators, was held at Conny Dietzschold Gallery, Sydney. Her drawings have been acquired or exhibited at the Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award 2010, and the Manning and Hobart City Art Prizes in 2011. In 2012, as part of Drawing Lines in the Sand, a group exhibition on Cockatoo Island, Sydney Harbour, Jones will present a soundscape installation in the convict-cut dog-leg tunnel, which further explores her interest in the natural and manmade worlds.