Lucia Jones is a Welsh painter based in Cardiff. Since graduating from Falmouth University in 2014, she has exhibited throughout the UK in solo and group exhibitions including BEEP Painting Prize 2018. Her work is held in private collections in the UK, USA, Hong Kong and Austria.

 Jones' work explores the materiality of paint in relation to memory. Her most recent paintings primarily utilise cinematic source imagery of 90s romantic comedies and cult classics as a means to address the intangible nature of nostalgia through the constructs of film and painting. Impersonal and personal all at once, they allude to fragmented space whilst conjuring an internalised or other world. Glimpses of bare canvas root the paintings into our physical reality whilst the paint formulates its own; slivers of the imagined and real sit on the surface of the canvas serving as artefacts of the seen and the experienced.

In the latest of Jones' works, these paintings form part of a new series called 'Bad Films with Harry'. The works are a further exploration of the dynamic between real and imagined space in paint. Jones focuses on the physical act of watching a film as part of the memory she is committing to canvas by including the letterbox surrounding the film within the composition in these works. Abstracted at best, this liminal line continues to obscure the thresholds between spaces and worlds. The films, watched while on the phone with a dear friend, are typically obscure b-movies or older foreign films. 

Lucia exhibited at Irving Contemporary as part of our group show A ROOM OF HER OWN, and she will be exhibiting here again in 2024.