Rhapsody

Working across painting, drawing, sculpture and collage, Gabrielle Jones explores notions of excess and adornment. Her works combine intuitive mark-making with distinct nods to art history, high-lighting movement and time through expressive forms and colours, iconic patterns and textures, and layers of paint. Drawn by the drama, movement and storytelling of Baroque and Rococo art, in particular, Jones borrows their patterns, decoration and ornaments in an abstract conflation of drama and courtly accoutrements. Reflecting on paintings from artists who have been influential in her practice, Jones employs mashed memory while highlighting the embellishment, dé- cor, energy and stillness of these eras. The resulting works are a call and answer, through time and memory, with these artists, expressing the strong sense of the joy in life that is a constant thread throughout Jones’s practice. “When I was seven I nearly drowned - as in a passed-out and needed rescue type of drowning. My memories of that are framed in opposites: the pounding of my heart and the quiet of the engulf- ing water; the dark depths and the light during my ascent to surface; the speed of change from safety to danger, and the deceleration of time while drowning; the liminal place between life and death, here and gone. Looking back, I realise this has been a formative event in so much of my life, and it continues to influence my work. My forms often challenge their boundaries in a bid for freedom and release - sub- jects cross boundaries between still life and move- ment; and forms move from naturalism to expres- sionism. Many works circle back on themselves. All seek a presence beyond logic”.

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