Philippa Jones

Philippa Jones MFA (b. 1982, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom) is a British artist and curator based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Her practice includes printmaking, painting, animation, and interactive installations, to explore constructed realities and active myth making.[1] She is notable as the first artist from Newfoundland and Labrador to be included in the National Gallery of Canada contemporary biennial.[2]

Philippa Jones
Born1982 (age 38–39)
Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity College Falmouth
Known forPainting, drawing, installation

Career

Prior to moving to Canada in 2009, Philippa Jones completed a Bachelors of Fine Art and a Masters of Art in Interactive Art & Design at University College Falmouth. In 2012, Jones was included in the exhibition "New Romantics" at The Rooms, alongside Photographer Anthony Redpath and artist Kelly Richardson, curated by Bruce Johnson.

When describing Jones' work in 'New Romantics,' author Katie Bethune Leamen wrote: "Jones creates feelings of physical displacement and wizard-like communion with animals."[3]

Her work was then featured in a solo exhibition entitled "MIRIAD," the result of a three-month residency at The Rooms as part of the Elbow Room Residency Program.[4] The exhibition was curated by Mireille Eagan.

MIRIAD (Ministry of Intuitive Research in Imagined and Actual Discoveries) is a fictional scientific organization whose directive is to "contribute to known truths through imaginative exploration."[5] Through playful scenarios where individuals adopt roles, participants "formulate hypotheses free from preconceptions, initiating research by imagining truths, then seeking to substantiate these imaginings through the discovery of actual artifacts and specimens."[6]

MIRIAD Island (2012), pen and ink wash on wove paper, 71.5 × 456.5 cm. Collection of National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
Specimen circles (2012)

Acting as a lead researcher, Jones constructed a representation of an island as other individuals acting as experts imagined it collectively, translating the results of their research into sculpture, installation, and drawings including the 15-foot pen and ink drawing "MIRIAD Island."[7]

The drawing, and the process of creating it, was described as "an unfolding linear landscape consisting of myriad geometric shapes and expressive washes in subtly monochromatic tones. ... The drawing was allowed to unfold intuitively, starting with a clearly imagined horizontal structure inspired by the vastness of the Newfoundland landscape. The artist deliberately had no end vision for the final island, wanting instead to see how it would grow and attempting to keep herself (in her own words) 'in a state of continuous imaginative possibilities.'"[8]

In 2014, the National Gallery of Canada collected Jones' work "MIRIAD Island."[9] This piece was exhibited in ‘Shine a Light: Canadian Biennial 2014’ at The National Gallery of Canada and was curated by Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Greg Hill, Andrea Kunard, Jonathan Shaughnessy and Rhiannon Vogl.

As the curatorial text for the National Gallery of Canada described: "The resulting drawing shows both her automatic way of working and the physical results of this creative and research-based practice."[10]

In 2016, Jones' piece "Silence" was shown at "Writing Topography," the Marion McCain Exhibition of Contemporary Atlantic Art'[11] curated by Corinna Ghaznavi at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. Later that same year, Jones' project, 'A Study into the Phenomena of the Newfoundland Bubble' was exhibited in ‘Land of Mirrors: ongoing experiments in Newfoundland‘ at Eastern Edge Art Gallery, curated by Mary MacDonald alongside artists Will Gill, Jerry Ropson, Michael Flaherty and Jason Wells.

Author Lisa Moore wrote of this work: "Philippa Jones's installation ... captures the isolation of living in a town on an island in the North Atlantic, especially under the smothering, claustrophobic blanket of winter, when air travel is often thwarted and even a trip to the bar becomes a mythic voyage". [12]

Art
Installation of '49 seconds,' exhibited in 'The New Romantics' at The Rooms (2012)

Selected exhibitions

Residency

2012 Artist in Residence, Elbow Room, The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery.

Collections

Further reading
The Newfoundland Bubble (2016), ink drawing

Books
  • Shine a Light / Surgir de l'ombre: Canadian Biennial 2014 / La biennale canadienne 2014, by Josee Drouin-brisebois (Author), Greg Hill (Author), Andrea Kunard (Author), Jonathan Shaughnessy (Author), Rhiannon Vogl (Author). Publisher: Natl Gallery of Canada; Bilingual edition (2 September 2014) ISBN 088884929X
  • Printmaking on the edge, 40 years at St. Michael's, (2014) Kevin Major (Author) publisher: St. Michael's Printshop
  • Writing Topography / Cree la topographie: The Marion McCain Exhibition of Contemporary Atlantic Art / L'Exposition Marion McCaind'art contemporain de la region Atlantique by Corinna, Ph.D. Ghaznavi, Publisher: Beaverbrook Art Gallery (1871) ASIN: B01K93H50A

Articles

Published writing

References
  1. https://philippamarie.wordpress.com/about/artist-profile/
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 23 September 2016. Retrieved 21 September 2016.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. https://canadianart.ca/reviews/new-romantics/
  4. https://www.therooms.ca/programs-events/for-artists/elbow-room-artist-in-residence-program
  5. https://philippamarie.wordpress.com/miriad-the-rooms-2013/
  6. Jones, Philippa. "MIRIAD Directive".
  7. https://philippamarie.wordpress.com/miriad-the-rooms-2013/
  8. Lau Ahier, Charlene (23 December 2014). "MIRIAD Island by Philippa Jones on exhibit at NGC". http://apt613.ca/. Apartment613. External link in |website= (help)
  9. "National Gallery of Canada Collections listing".
  10. https://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artwork.php?mkey=219112
  11. "Writing Topography: The Marion McCain Exhibition of Contemporary Atlantic Art".
  12. Moore, Lisa. "Canadian Art Magazine, What Is the New Newfoundland Dream?".
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