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Smoke and Mirrors
On now until 26 July 2025
“Jones’s piece – October 2023 – which begun in that month and continued for another six, is astonishing. For this particular piece, Jones worked onto nightblack paper, a sheet more than 7m in length, with gold and silver pens. He recorded the news as it came, and as we know, much came, and it has not ceased to come. Here, in one massive work, a work that echoes traditions of ancient tapestry, we see mixtures of the frenetic real-time commentary of street graffiti with spontaneous, occult glyph making, with dark energy and bubbling overwhelming horror and anger, with confusion and disbelief. This massive work is overwhelming in itself, it is explosive and magical. Jones’s line often seems to be mined straight from his unconscious, but there are words here too, words we recognise, words we know all too well now. The work also features wars, there are machinations, there is horrendous loss of life and disaster. Jones has exposed himself to it all, and he bleeds a terrible, bright alchemy onto the page, not trying to distill or to make sense – there is possibly no sense to make, no time to reflect, because the next thing has already happened, and somehow, Jones adds that in as well, lines crossing over one another.
October 2023 alone deserves to be seen – it’s an astonishing work.”
Andrew Harper, Tas Weekend Magazine
@makeanddo_tas
#locustjones #BettGallery #ContemporaryDrawing #AustralianArt #DrawingsOnPaper #ArtCollectors #GalleryExhibition #SupportLivingArtists #AustralianContemporaryArt #hobartgallery
Smoke and Mirrors
On now until 26 July 2025
“Jones’s piece – October 2023 – which begun in that month and continued for another six, is astonishing. For this particular piece, Jones worked onto nightblack paper, a sheet more than 7m in length, with gold and silver pens. He recorded the news as it came, and as we know, much came, and it has not ceased to come. Here, in one massive work, a work that echoes traditions of ancient tapestry, we see mixtures of the frenetic real-time commentary of street graffiti with spontaneous, occult glyph making, with dark energy and bubbling overwhelming horror and anger, with confusion and disbelief. This massive work is overwhelming in itself, it is explosive and magical. Jones’s line often seems to be mined straight from his unconscious, but there are words here too, words we recognise, words we know all too well now. The work also features wars, there are machinations, there is horrendous loss of life and disaster. Jones has exposed himself to it all, and he bleeds a terrible, bright alchemy onto the page, not trying to distill or to make sense – there is possibly no sense to make, no time to reflect, because the next thing has already happened, and somehow, Jones adds that in as well, lines crossing over one another.
October 2023 alone deserves to be seen – it’s an astonishing work.”
Andrew Harper, Tas Weekend Magazine
@makeanddo_tas
#locustjones #BettGallery #ContemporaryDrawing #AustralianArt #DrawingsOnPaper #ArtCollectors #GalleryExhibition #SupportLivingArtists #AustralianContemporaryArt #hobartgallery
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