Gina JonesArtist

E: gina@ginajones.co.nz W: www.ginajones.co.nz M: 021 456 088 P: P O Box 3591, Wellington 6140

The body of work that I have produced since my graduation in 2005 from RMIT Melbourne (MFA) has been based on colour, light and the perception of time.

My architectural training and career has subconsciously directed me to use ma-terials sympathetic to both architecture and the fine arts, materials such as laser cut steel, glass or Perspex and even the New Zealand classic; corrugated iron. The skill is to balance the coldness of these materials with the warm (and mesmeris-

ing) slowly changing light/colour.

As with the traditions of abstract painting, the foci of my work is on colour, time and space, as I aim to create a protracted and more intense viewing experience.

I have consistently integrated 3D qualities into my work. The illusion of depth captures the viewer and ultimately invites contemplation.

Qualifications • MFA, RMIT 2005.• BArch(1st Class Hons), VUW 1987.• BBSc, VUW 1984.

Born• Christchurch, NZ

Exhibitions/Awards:

2016 Divine Abstraction (curated by Dr Rachael Kohn) with Peter Daverington, Peter Hickman, Colin Jordon, Gabri-ella Possum Nungarrayi, Penelope Davis, Suzanne Moss, Magda Cebokli, Ash Keating, Justin Andrews, Lucas Davidson, Dinh Cong Dat, Gregory Bennet, Cather-ine Nelson, Tim Maquire and Andre Piguet; Justin Art House Museum Melbourne May - June 2016

2015 Winner Premier Award; Friends of Aratoi Art Award 30upstairs, Light; Works in association with, 30 Upstairs,

Wellington Group Exhibition; Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong

2014 Finalist; Wallace Art Award Finalist, Auckland Perceptions of Space: Justin Collection; Group Exhibi-

tion, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne Southern Brights; Solo Exhibition, Cat Street Gallery,

Hong Kong 30upstairs, a Look Back; Group Exhibition, 30 Upstairs,

Wellington

2013 Gina Jones, 30 Upstairs, Wellington Studio Raids; Group Exhibition, Sanderson Contempo-

rary Art Gallery, Auckland Group Exhibition, Women in Architecture, Auckland

2012 Asia Contemporary Art Show; Group Exhibition, Cat St Gallery Hong Kong

Finalist; Wallace Award Finalists Ten Years; Group Exhibition, Sanderson Contemporary

Art Gallery, Auckland In the Name of Love; Group Exhibition, Alexander Tut-

sek-Stiftung, Munich, Germany (extended to April 2013)

2011 Advent; Group Exhibition, Sanderson Contemporary Art Gallery, Auckland

Locale; Group Exhibition, Sanderson Contemporary Art Gallery, Auckland

Signal 8, Group Exhibition, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong

Finalist and Merit Award; NZ Painting and Printmaking Award, Hamilton

Auckland Art Fair, Sanderson Gallery Finalist; Wallace Art Award Finalist, Auckland

2010 Southern Lights; Solo Exhibition, Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong

Black out; Solo Exhibition, Sanderson Contemporary Art Gallery, Auckland

Home; Tim Rex Group Show, Artspost, Hamilton w Hong Kong Art Fair (group exhibition with Cat Street Gallery)

Bouncy; Group Show, Sanderson Contemporary Art Gallery, Auckland

Finalist; NZ Painting and Printmaking Award, Hamilton

2009 Solo Exhibition; Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and History, Masterton

Seen this Century; Judith Anderson Gallery (group show) Light; Group Show, Milford Galleries Auckland Art Fair, Sanderson Gallery Scale, Sanderson Gallery (group show) Furniture, Judith Anderson Gallery (group show)

2008 Wallace Award Finalists, Aotea Centre and The New Dowse

Finalist (travelling show) Wallace Art Awards Gina Jones, Page Blackie Gallery Melbourne Art Fair (group exhibition with Page Blackie

Gallery)

2007 Gina Jones, Tinakori Gallery Clean Machine, Group Exhibition, Gus Fisher Gallery Sculpture, Group Show, Tinakori Gallery Auckland Art Fair, Tinakori Gallery

2006 Tinakori Gallery, opening group exhibition Melbourne Art Fair (group exhibition with Tinakori

Gallery) Finalist Waikato Contemporary Art Award Finalist Norsewear Art Award

2005 Light Perceptions, Wellington Art Centre Gallery Group Exhibition (MFA Candidates), RMIT University,

Melbourne Dark Room – Light Travels, Group Exhibition (Vivien

Atkinson, Helen Jones, Gina Jones), Faculty Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne

2004 Inverlochy 2004 Group End of Year Exhibition Accent Architects Artists – World Architecture Day

2003 Creative Photography Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Inverlochy Art School

Visions and Views, Group Exhibition, Inverlochy Art School

Selected Articles and Essays:

• Open House Policy, Annemarie Kiely, Vogue Living, May June 2016.

• Justin Art House Museum review: Prahran architect’s home an interactive, immersive domestic gallery space, The Sydney Morning Herald, Robert Nelson, April 5, 2016.

• http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.co.nz/2016/02/justin-art-house-museum-modern-art.html Justin Art House Museum: modern art, private collection in Melbourne, 27 February 2016.

• http://www.domain.com.au/news/architect-charles-justin-is-selling-his-caulfield-north-home-20150422-1mr24l/ Architect Charles Justin is selling his Caulfield North home, Paul Best, 25 April 2015.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqdaq83Yuk Gina Jones Artist Talk, The Cat Street Gallery, 23 March 2014.

• Gina Jones Southern Brights, Exhibition Catalogue, https://issuu.com/catstreetgallery/docs/gj_catalogue_pdf__final_is-suu/1, The Cat Street Gallery, 2014.

• A Bright Idea, Capital. Nov 2013, Issue 6.• The Artist – Gina Jones, NZ House and Garden, Warwick

Brown, August 2012 p 156.• In the Name of Love, Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek; Kerber Ver-

lag, Bielefeld, Leipzig, Berlin 2012, pp 56-57 and bio p 95.• Gina Jones in The Artists – 21 Practitioners in New Zealand

Contemporary Art c. 2011 – 2013. Pp 76 - 81. Kylie Sander-son, Tamara Darragh. (released August 2011).

• Seeing the Light. Joanna Trezise. Urbis. Issue 60. 2011. Pp 56 – 57.

• Home for the artist within. Ann Packer. Dominion Post. De-sign. Saturday 20 February 2010.

• Illuminate: The Recent Work of Gina Jones. Joanna Trezise. 2010.

• ‘Collective intelligence’, Art News New Zealand, Spring 2010, pg 17.

• Gina Jones in Seen this Century – 100 Contemporary New Zealand Artists – A Collector’s Guide. 2009. Pp 200 – 203. Warwick Brown. Random House International.

• Gina Jones in The Artists – 21 Practitioners in New Zealand Contemporary Art c. 2009 – 2011. Pp 40 – 43. Kylie Sander-son, Tamara Darragh and Kim Atherfold. Beatnik Publishing.

• Two Ziggurats in Wellington. John Daly-Peoples. The Nation-al Business Review. 7 March 2008.

• Too Clever by Half. Douglas Crane. Salient. 14 July 2008.• Gina Jones, Tinakori Gallery, Wellington. www.nzartmonthly.

co.nz. http://www.nzartmonthly.co.nz/tinakori_002.html. Downloaded 27/09/08.

• The galleries: Remarkable riches in Auckland Shows. T J Mc-Namara. NZ Herald. 9 August 2007.

• Gina Jones 2007. James Blackie.

Public Commissions

• 2012 Stage 1 Terrace Tunnel – part of the Rainbow Corridor, 15km SH1 art work (only coloured panels to tunnel executed).

Research

• An Investigation into Perceptions of Time; using Light and Space. (MFA, RMIT 2005).