Since exhibiting at Castlefield Gallery’s ‘Versus’ exhibition in 2002, Chris Jones has completed the MA Fine Art at Central St Martins College of Art & Design. Recent solo exhibitions include HVCCA Peekskill, New York, 2008 and GMVZ/ Galerie Martin Van Zomeren, Amsterdam, 2006 with group shows including Strategies for Concealing c-space, Beijing, China, 2008; The Golden Record Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 2008; A Song Turning Inward One twenty, Gent, 2007; Media in Transition Spielhaus Morrison, Berlin, 2006, ‘Axxxpresssunizm’, Vilma Gold, 2004; ‘Tempered Ground’, Museum of Garden History; 2004, ‘Collage’, Bloomberg Space, 2004 and ‘Bag Lady’ at Cell Project Space, 2003.
In 2003 Jones was commissioned by fashion house KENZO Paris for the launch of the new Pont Neuf flagship store, and was successfully awarded the Red Mansion/Spero Art Prize, resulting in a 2-month residency in Kun-Ming, China. He has an upcoming solo show at The Armoury Show, GMVZ booth, New York in 2009.
‘Spectralis Hybridus’ uses appropriated imagery of early plant species illustrations dating from the 1600’s to 1800’s. Jones selectively removed illustrations from books to meticulously reform and reshape them into 3-dimensional objects, during the process a kind of “crosspollination has occurred, resulting in subtle stylising and “hybridisation”. The edition print returns the object to the 2-dimesional again, cleverly playing on and referencing its bibliographic origins.
‘Spectralis Hybridus’, Chris Jones. Edition of 100, 420x297mm, £80 unframed.
(Photography by Kay Wahlig)
