| Tony Jones | |
| Education: | Glasgow School of Art |
| Occupation: | Sculptor, educationalist |
| Office: | Director of the Glasgow School of Art |
| Predecessor: | Harry Barnes |
| Successor: | Tom Pannell |
| Nationality: | Welsh |
Professor Tony Jones is a sculptor; and a former director of the Glasgow School of Art. He took the post of Director from 1980 to 1986.[1]
Jones is from a tiny hamlet in west Wales.[2] He went to Newport School of Art in Wales.[3]
He was teaching as a sculptor in the Glasgow School of Art in the 1970s.[3]
He took over as Director of Glasgow School of Art in 1980. He became only the second sculptor to become a director, after James Gray in the 1930s.[3] He became an authority on the history of art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and also on Charles Rennie Mackintosh.[4]
He moved to become a Chancellor of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1986.[5]
He received a CBE in 2003.[2]
He received an honorary doctorate from the Glasgow School of Art (Doctor of Letters, D.Litt.).[6]
He is a Honorary Vice President of the Glasgow School of Art.[7]
Jones is an advocate of the rebuilding of the Mackintosh building after its fires of the 2010s and gave evidence to the Scottish Parliament backing this plan.[8]