The Artist in his Studio, 2007

BIOGRAPHYClick to go to printable Biography - PDF format

1962       Born Clwyd, North Wales.
1979-80 Studied, Wrexham School of Art, North Wales.
1980-83 Bachelor of Arts (1st Class Honours) Painting and Printmaking.
1983       Arrived Australia.
1984-85 Postgraduate Diploma (with Distinction) Sculpture,
                Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Victoria.
1997-2000 Masters by Research, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2007       Tim Jones – Within the Wood, Falkner Gallery, Castlemaine, Victoria.
2006       New Work, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Victoria.
2005       I’ve been in love forever – A Survey Exhibition 1990 – 2005, Stonington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University, Melbourne, Victoria.
2004        Blasted Trees, Horsham Regional Art Gallery, Horsham, Victoria.
                 The Woods Between the Worlds, Woodbine Art Gallery, Malmsbury, Victoria.
2002-03 The Beauty of Hindsight, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria.
2002       Within the Woods, Mitchelton Winery, Nagambie, Victoria.
                 Irony in the Wind, Fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Victoria.
2001        Pastoria – Landscape of the Imagination, Phyllis Palmer Gallery, La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria.
1999        Billy grew on a Tree, Didn’t E, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
1997        Dumb Birds and Blasted Trees, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
                 Tim Jones (Prints), Watch This Space, Bendigo, Victoria.
1995        Tim Jones (Sculpture), Tolarno Galleries, Fitzroy, Victoria.
1994        Graphic Work 84-94, Sherman Galleries, Sydney, New South Wales.
                 Mitchelton Print Award, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy, Victoria.
                 Under Milk Wood, Jan Jones Contemporary Art, Bowral, New South Wales.
1993         Into the Twilight, Gippsland Regional Gallery, Sale, Victoria.
1992         Tim Jones 2 & 3 Dimensional Work, Irving Galleries, Sydney, New South Wales.
                 Out of the Woods, Installation, Tolarno Galleries, South Yarra, Victoria.
1991         Tim Jones Sculpture, Installation, Tolarno Galleries, South Yarra, Victoria.
                 Hanging Rock Drawings, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill, Victoria.
1990        Tim Jones Artist in Residence, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria.
                 Tim Jones, Irving Galleries, Sydney, New South Wales.
                 Tim Jones Sculpture, Tolarno Galleries, South Yarra, Victoria.
                 Tim Jones, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill, Victoria.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008        Against the Grain, Port Jackson Press, Collingwood, Victoria.
                 Print traditions - sources of Australian printmaking, Geelong Gallery, Geelong, Victoria.
                 who let the dogs out, Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery, Booragul, New South Wales; Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Gymea, New South Wales.
2007-08 Australian Print Workshop: Impressions from Australia, Australian Embassy, Washington D.C., USA
                 Why the Tree, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Ballarat, Victoria.
2006-07 Proof: Contemporary Australian Printmaking, The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne, Victoria.
2006       Extra-Aesthetic: 25 views of the Monash University Collection, Monash University, Caulfield and Clayton, Victoria.
2005       Recent Acquisitions: Deakin University Art Collection, ICON Museum of Art, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria.
                 Art for Science, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, Victoria.
2004       Contemporary Australian Prints from the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales.
                Giant: Ancient and Historic Trees, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria.
2003      McClelland Sculpture Survey, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria.
                Against the grain, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria.
                Back to the Future, Monash University Museum of Art Exhibition, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill, Victoria.
2002      Yarra arraY Sculpture Festival, Birrarung Marr, Melbourne, Victoria.
                Wildlife, Australian Print Workshop, Fitzroy, Victoria.
                Jon Campbell’s Rock the Boat, Switchback Gallery, Monash University, Churchill, Victoria.
                works in glass bronze and wood, amo artist made objects, Richmond, Victoria.
2002       Central Goldfields Sculpture Prize and Exhibition, Central Goldfields Art Gallery, Maryborough, Victoria.
2001       Helen Lempriere National Sculpture Award, Werribee Park, Victoria.
                 Jon Campbell’s Rock the Boat, Uplands Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
                 Point of Departure, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria.
                Old Landscape: New Garden, Sculpture at Seawinds, Arthurs Seat, Victoria.
                Geelong Print Prize, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria.
                Nillumbik Art Award, The Barn Gallery Montsalvat, Eltham, Victoria.
2000      celebrating the exquisite Corpse, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria; and national tour.
1999       On The Road, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Heidelberg, Victoria.
                focus 5: leisure and pleasure, Robert Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
1998       Magic Realism, Australian Galleries, Collingwood, Victoria.
                Up the Road: Contemporary Artists out of the Victorian College of the Arts, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, South Yarra, Victoria.
                The Ladder-Maverick Arts, Arts Victoria, Vista Hotel, Melbourne, Victoria.
1997        In Relief: Australian wood engravings, woodcuts & linocuts, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria.
                 Auto Art, Access Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria.
1996        Nostalgic, Monash University Gallery, Clayton, Victoria.
1995        Constructed City, Plimsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania and National Tour.
                 Works on Paper, Kyneton Collection Exhibition Space, Kyneton, Victoria.
1993        Excalibur: contemporary artists and Celtic heritage, Geelong Art Gallery, Geelong, Victoria.
                 An Exhibition of Wood Engravings, Joshua McClelland Print Room, Melbourne, Victoria.
1992        Dame Edna Regrets She is Unable to Attend, Heide Museum of Modern Art, Heidelberg, Victoria.
                 Invitation Art Prize 1992 – Melbourne Art – Melbourne Artists, The Melbourne Savage Club, McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park, Langwarrin, Victoria.
                 Domino I Collaborations Between Artists, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria.
                 Moet & Chandon Touring Exhibition, Australian Tour.
                 Perspectives on Australian Landscape, Australian Embassy, Washington D.C., U.S.A.
1992        Southgate Art Exhibition, Westpac Gallery, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne, Victoria.
1991         Recent Acquisitions (Works on Paper), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria.
                 An Exhibition of Technologically Assisted Works of Art, Monash studios and exhibition space, Collingwood, Victoria.
                 A Selection from the University Art Collection, The University of Melbourne Museum of Art, Melbourne, Victoria, Peter Timms guest curator.
                 Artworkz Three: The B.P. Australia Acquisitive Prize, Caulfield Arts Centre, Caulfield, Victoria.
                 The Upside Down River, The Australia Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
                 Society of British Wood Engravers 54th Exhibition, U.K. Tour.
                 Contemporary Australian Art, A & Z Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
1990        New Acquisitions – Department of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria.
                 South Lawn Sculpture Exhibition, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria.
                 Recent Acquisitions, Monash University Museum of Art, Clayton, Victoria.
                 100 Artists Against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria.
                 Green Peace fund raising exhibition, Linden Gallery, St Kilda, Victoria.
                 New Art, Recent Contemporary Art Acquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Victoria.
                 Group Show (with Anton Hassel), Irving Galleries, Sydney, New South Wales.
                 Artists Under Saturn, Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria.

SELECTED AWARDS & COMMISSIONS

2007        Red Tree, Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, Chadstone Campus.
                 Print Commission, The City of Yarra.
2006-07 Community Totem, Hanging Rock Reserve, Macedon Shire Council; 8m high carved and painted tree stump.
2006       The Ornithologist, VicUrban Commission, Valley Lakes, Niddrie; 23m high sculpture.
                 Print Commission, The City of Yarra.
2003       Scar Tree Sculpture, Horsham Rural City Council.
2001        Print Commission, The City of Yarra.
2000        New Works Grant, Arts Victoria.
                  Joyce Thorpe Nicholson Award, for best designed book of 1999 (collaboration with Guy Mirabella).
1999-2000 Point Lonsdale Foreshore Development, D.R.N.E. (collaboration with Vernon Landscape Design).
1998-99   Yabbie Pool – Meeting Place, Yonka Creek, Broadmeadows, City of Hume (collaboration with Vernon Landscape Design).
1996         Cooper & Lybrand (collaboration with Joanne Croke).
                  Royal Australian Institute of Architects Commendation (collaboration with City Projects Design Branch).
                  River God Fountain, Fitzroy Gardens, City of Melbourne.
1995         Bronze Memorial Plaque, Sydney Grammar.
1994         Mitchelton Winery Print Award, Australian Print Workshop.
                  Sensory Fountain, Royal Botanical Gardens, Sydney.
1994         Bourke Street Mall Project, City of Melbourne.
1993         P.L.A.C.E. Dry Stone Wall and Earth Work, City of Keilor.
1992         The Spirit, Eastern Entry, Southgate Complex.
1991         Southern Stand, Melbourne Cricket Ground.
1990         Awarded VA/CB Australia Council Project Grant.

COLLECTIONS

AGOS Collection, M.C.G.
Artbank
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Art Gallery of South Australia
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Bendigo Art Gallery
BHP Collection
Burnie Regional Gallery
City of Keilor
Deakin University Art Collection
Diamond Valley Art Collection
Geelong Art Gallery
Gladstone Regional Art Gallery
Holmesglen Institute of TAFE
Heide Museum of Modern Art
Horsham Regional Art Gallery
Latrobe Regional Gallery
La Trobe University Art Collection
Macedon Ranges Council
McClelland Gallery + Sculpture Park
Mildura Regional Gallery
Monash University Art Collection
Monash University Library – Rare Books Collection
National Gallery of Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Ormond College
Queensland Art Gallery
Queensland University of Technology
State Library of Victoria
Sussan Corporate Collection
Swan Hill Regional Gallery
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
University of Melbourne Art Collection
Victorian College of the Arts
VicUrban
Vizard Foundation
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Warrnambool Art Gallery

Private Collections Australia, Germany, Japan, U.K., U.S.A.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Current   Part-time Tutor (Diploma Visual Arts), CAE, Melbourne, Victoria.
2005       Artist in Residence, Braemar College, Mt Macedon, Victoria.
2003-05 Part-time Lecturer (Printmaking), La Trobe University, Bendigo, Victoria.
2002       Travelled Italy, U.K., U.S.A., Canada.
1997        Artist in Residence, City of Broken Hill Art Gallery, New South Wales.
                 Part-time Tutor (Diploma Visual Arts), CAE, Melbourne, Victoria.
                 Part-time Lecturer (Printmaking), Latrobe University, Bendigo, Victoria.
1995-97  Part-time Lecturer (Printmaking), Monash University, Caulfield, Victoria.
1996        Part-time Lecturer (Curatorial Studies), University of Melbourne, Victoria.
1994        Artist in Residence, Australian Print Workshop (Mitchelton Winery Print Award), Fitzroy, Victoria.
1993        Arts Fellow, Sydney Grammar School, Darlinghurst, New South Wales.
                 Travelled Europe, Canada, U.S.A.
                 Part-time Lecturer (Printmaking), University of Melbourne, Victoria.
1991-92  Part-time Lecturer (Sculpture), Phillip Institute of Technology, RMIT, Victoria.
1989-90 Artist in Residence, University of Melbourne, Victoria.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Art Almanac, April 1990, Cover Image.
Backhouse, M., 2001; ‘Print prize – Visual arts’, The Age, 28 March.
Backhouse, M., 1993; ‘Magical and mysterious’, The Age, 15 October.
Bellamy, L., 2005; ‘Art takes hold when words fail’, The Age, 6 August.
Cant, S., 1991; ‘There’s bread to be made from brushing up on art’, The Age.
Catalano, G., 1990; ‘Howard pursues our deepest fears’, The Age, 3 October.
Crawford, A., 2006; ‘Extra-Aesthetic: 25 views of the Monash University Collection’, The Sunday Age Preview, 15 January.
Crawford, A., 1990; ‘Gothic and Perverse – Tim Jones’, Tension 21, June.
Erlich, R., 1994; ‘Dark designs out of a Welsh wood’.
Fern, L., 1992; ‘The fantastic side of nature’, The Sydney Morning Herald, 3 April.
Gregg, S., 2004; ‘Tim Jones: The Woods Between the Worlds’.
Gott, T., 2005; ‘Australianized Welsh lilt’, I’ve been in love forever, Stonington Stables Museum of Art, Deakin University (exhibition catalogue).
Gott, T., 1999; On The Road, Heide Museum of Modern Art (exhibition catalogue).
Gott, T., ; ‘Antipodean Import – Tim Jones, Welsh wood engraver down under’, Imprint, Print Council of Australia.
Healy, M., 1990; ‘Tim Jones – Ian Potter Gallery’.
Heathcote, C., 1998; Magic Realism, Australian Galleries (exhibition catalogue).
Heathcote, C., 1992; ‘Imagined worlds provide inspiration for a new movement’, The Age, December.
Hill, P., 1990; ‘Artists join together to extend their concerns’, The Age, 23 August.
Jones, T., 1994; Milk Wood Engravings and Sculpture, inspired by Dylan Thomas’ play for voices Under Milk Wood (exhibition catalogue).
Jones, T., 1985; ‘It took me 12 months to fall in love with Australia’, Friends of the Victorian College of the Arts Newsletter, July-September.
Lancashire, R., 1992; ‘Putting fun into the sculpture culture’, The Age, 9 July.
Lew, C., 1991; ‘A moveable feast of sculpture’, The Melbourne Times, 19 September.
Lindsay, F., 1990; ‘Tim Jones: Ancient Myths and Popular Stories’, Art and Australia, Spring Vol 28, No. 1.
Lindsay, F., 1990; ‘Tim Jones, Artist-in-Residence’, University of Melbourne Gallery Society Bulletin, Vol III, No. 2.
Lindsay, F., 1990; ‘Tim Jones: Escape to the City’, Gallery, National Gallery Society, May p.10-12.
Lindsay, R., 2003; McClelland Survey & Award, McClelland Gallery & Sculpture Park, September (exhibition catalogue).
Long, J., 1990; ‘On The Road and Off the Planet’, Tim Jones Artist-in-Residence, University of Melbourne (exhibition catalogue).
Makin, J., 2005; ‘Cultivating tree spirits’, Herald Sun, 15 August.
McKenzie, R., 1997; ‘Taking Sides’, Herald Sun, 15 December.
‘peacock blue’, Vogue Living, May/June 2005.
Nelson, R., 2005; ‘Talking to the trees’, Sightlines, The Age, September.
Nelson, R., 2004; ‘Nature’s grand old giants’, The Age, 7 January.
Nelson, R., 2003; ‘Bring out the big guns’, The Age, 8 October.
Nelson, R., 2002; ‘Bird’s-eye look at other world of trees’, The Age, 21 December.
Nelson, R., 2001; ‘Shedding pretensions’, The Age, 28 March.
Port, J., 1996; ‘Wine is art, art is wine’, The Age, 22 October.
Riches, C., 2001; ‘Local artist on show in Bendigo’, Telegraph, 8 May.
Rooney, R., 1997; ‘A culture we should never exterminate’, The Australian, 4 July.
Rooney, R., 1992; ‘Cutting through the Woods’, The Weekend Australian, 19-20 December.
Rooney, R., 1990; ‘Mix and matching wit with invention’, The Australian, 9 May.
‘Sculpture for cultural site’, The Wimmera Mail-Times, 17 December 2003.
Taylor, R., 2001; ‘In Praise Of The Natural World’, World Sculpture News, Summer.
Taylor, R., 1996; ‘Transformations’, Asia-Pacific Sculpture News, Winter.
‘The art for fine wine’, Herald Sun, 29 April 1994.
‘The artist’s vision… large and small’, Melbourne University Gazette, 1990.
Tim Jones, Artist-in-Residence, 1990; Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne (exhibition catalogue).
Timms, P., 2001; ‘Cutting the wood for the trees’, The Age, 18 April.
Timms, P., 1999; ‘Seeing the Lleitmotif, however dark’, The Age, 2 December.
Timms, P., 1998; ‘Not all magic in this realism’, The Age, 12 August.
‘Tribute blends with landscape’, The Wimmera Mail-Times, 17 December 2003.
Virgo, A., 1994; ‘Tim Jones 1994 Mitchelton Print Award’, Imprint, Print Council of Australia, Winter (and Cover Image).
Ward, K., 2001; ‘Sublime silence’, Weekender, 19 May.
White, T., 1996; ‘The art of labelling’, The Australian Weekend Review.
Winter-Irving, C., 1995; ‘Images of Passage’, Craft Arts International, No. 33.
‘Young look after contemporary art’, The Courier Mail, 10 April 1992.
Zimmer, J., 1990; ‘From scrap heap to top of the heap’, The Sunday Herald, 13 May.

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