Lot 376 - Lucia Jones - I was Nowhere to be Found

Gouache on paper
2024
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Lucia Jones is a Welsh prize-winning painter. Since graduating from Falmouth University, she has exhibited globally in solo and group exhibitions including BEEP Painting Prize 2018 and 2024. She has also been long listed for a number of art prizes such as John Moores 2020, Jacksons Art Prize 2022 and 2023. Her work is currently held in private collections in Australia, Austria, Hong Kong, Mexico, UK and USA.

Jones’ practice delves into the female experience through the constructs of paint and film. Drawing from cinematic source imagery—particularly obscure 1950s–1990s B-movies—as well as her own photographs, Jones re-contextualizes women and objects, transforming them into anonymised figures and still lives. These subjects inhabit fractured, fabricated environments. Liberated from their initial mediums and planes of existence, they are absorbed into the painted realm Jones has cultivated throughout her oeuvre. Here, their context is reconstructed, their worlds reshaped, allowing them to serve as cyphers for the viewer—glimpses into layered narratives of lived experience, open to examination.

Education
2011-2014
First Class BA(Hons) Fine Art, Falmouth University

Solo Exhibitions
2024
Spectacle, Irving Gallery, Oxford, UK

2020
Tales from the Cutting Room Floor, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff, UK

2016
Desire Lines, Penarth Pier Pavilion, Cardiff, UK

Group Exhibitions
2024
Intersum, Occupata x Oriel Canfas, Cardiff, UK
Beep Painting Prize 2024, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK
Among Women Vol I, Occupata x Art Market Cardiff, Cardiff, UK
Chairish x Bergdorf Goodmans, NYC, USA

2023
Through a Glass Darkly, Visible Records, Charlottesville VA, USA
The Art Unit X The Art City Works, York Street Gallery, London, UK
Best of our Solo Art Prize winners exhibition, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff, UK
Trails, Turner House, Cardiff, UK
Made in Roath, G39, Cardiff, UK
Art on a Postcard Summer Auction, Hoxton Gallery, London, UK
A world of her own, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK

2022
Unity: British & Ukranian Art, The Art Unit, Koppel Projects Space Piccadilly, London, UK
Painting Made Recently in Wales, Lle Projects, Bay Art, Cardiff, UK
A Room of her Own, Irving Gallery, Oxford, UK
A Woman's Place is Everywhere, The Cello Factory, London, UK

2021
Incandescent, Irving Gallery, Oxford, UK
Without Borders, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, UK

2020
Tales from the Cutting Room Floor, Solo Show, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff, UK
Arcade Studio Show, Arcade Campfa, Cardiff, UK

2019
Made in Roath Open, g39, Cardiff, UK
Summer Art Prize, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff, UK
Kings Road Artists, Hearth Gallery, Llandough, UK
Viridis, Cardiff M.A.D.E, Cardiff, UK

Awards
2019
Summer Art Prize, Cardiff M.A.D.E

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
I was nowhere to be found is one of several works on paper made following Jones' recent solo exhibition, Spectacle, which investigated the performative nature of female existence. Expanding her focus, Jones substitutes the figure for symbolic elements such as phones and curtains—recurring cyphers in her work. These scenes, carefully staged and presented, invite observation and scrutiny, offering meditations on identity.