| Oliver C Jones | |
| Birth Date: | 1985 |
| Birth Place: | Shropshire |
| Education: | Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art) |
| Notable Works: | Love the Skin You’re In, Divine |
| Style: | His large-scale, photo-realistic pastel works of art aim to question society's notion of flesh |
| Website: | http://www.olivercjones.com/ |
Oliver C Jones (born 1985 in Shropshire, UK) is a contemporary British artist known for his large-scale photorealist chalk pastel drawings. His work is most fundamentally concerned with flesh, in particular how its image exists and how it is interpreted in society.[1]
Jones graduated in 2008 from the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design with First-Class Honors.[2] Shortly after graduation, Jones was the winner of the Best of UK competition at SaLon Gallery, London, earning a place in the UK's Future Greats show.[3] In 2010, Jones was shortlisted for the Threadneedle Prize for Painting and Sculpture for his work Georgina, which featured 'an optical illusion in which a girl's face was upside-down and the eyes and mouth were flipped up the right way.'[4] His work was also featured in the BBC2 show Show Me the Monet.[5] Jones was shortlisted for the Young Masters Art Prize 2014 and awarded a Highly Commended Prize.[6]
In his debut 2014 solo exhibition Love the Skin You're In, Jones 'explored society's obsession with perfect skin'[7] and the exhibition included a portrait of his young daughter with plastic surgery marks covering her face titled Designer Baby.[8]
Jones is the Co-Founder of A3 Project Space Digbeth, Birmingham, UK which supports contemporary artists and hosts residencies in collaboration with mac birmingham and Turning Point West Midlands.[9]
Jones is represented by Los Angeles-based gallery GUSFORD.[10]