Image: Gerald Jones, I am many thoughts, 2020. Oil on canvas, 122 x 91 cm. Courtesy of the artist.
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Gerald Jones
30 April - 16 May 2021
Gerald Jones has practiced a lifelong love of discovery over his three decades as a painter. Kaleidoscopically refining and expressing his identity through art, his practice revolves the research and collation of the works of past artists.
Jonesโ latest body of work, From here to there, in-between places, I am many thoughts, employs colour and form as vehicles to express gender and identity. By incorporating gesture and movement into the painting frame, emotion and memory are transcribed onto his canvases through a combination of intuition and intention.
Recurring motifs, including the allegory of the edifice and the parable of colour enables Jones to express and expose his identity and a fluid relationship with gender. Much like his asemic writing, the fluid forms within Jonesโ paintings encapsulate a personal language of his hidden self.