LUCIA JONES
Location:
Wales, UK
ARTIST BIO
Lucia Jones is an award-winning Welsh painter. Since graduating from Falmouth University, she has exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions including BEEP Painting Prize 2018 and 2024. She is the 2025 Wakelin Award recipient and has also been long listed for a number of art prizes such as John Moores 2020, Jacksons Art Prize 2022 and 2023. Her work is currently held in public and private collections including Australia, Austria, Hong Kong, Mexico, UK and USA.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Jones’ practice explores memory and self-perception through the constructs of paint and film. Focusing on the female psyche in painted space, she draws inspiration from 50s-90s b-movies, art history, and her own photographs, recontextualising women as anonymised subjects within fractured and fabricated environments. These painted scenes act as cyphers for lived experience, to be glimpsed and examined. Her recent works explore societal expectations placed on women and the performative nature of femininity, depicting figures in liminal spaces that blur the boundaries between the real and imagined, the revealed and concealed. They inhabit the tension between societal constraints and personal autonomy.
