Artist Profile

Jonathan JONES

At a time when schedules seem to cease to exist and days are framed by Zoom meetings and family FaceTimes, I spoke with Jonathan Jones to reflect on his extensive artistic practice thus far, and what may lay ahead in an ever-shifting future.

Jones’s practice centres on the act of storytelling and art’s intrinsic ability to disseminate narrative and experience. However, the inception of Jones’s career was clearly paved for a much simpler reason, in that “there was nothing else [he] could do.” During his schooling, report cards were riddled with D averages apart from art, so it was “either pursue

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