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Gemma Jones (b. 1995) is a performance artist based in Scotland whose practice explores the limitations and expressive possibilities of the body in a bid to rethink how time, space, and language are felt, visualised, and performed.
They work across a range of contexts including site-specific performance, visual art and contemporary performance creating work developed from research regarding time, chronic illness, Hydrofeminism, materiality, and care. As a performer, Jones includes their audience by hosting an inclusive and nurturing space. Seeking out hospitable forms of material and language, they create room for reflection, uncertainty, and the present moment.
They have recently expanded into a multilayered practice using drawing, sound, writing and facilitation which prose exciting mediums for the artist to perform new languages of the disabled non binary body.
Contact Details:
Email: gj857804@gmail.com
Education:
2015- 2018 BA (Hons) 2:1 Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking, The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
2016 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2014-2015 UAL Level 3 Foundation Diploma in Art & Design (Pass with Distinction) Warwickshire College, Leamington Spa
Group & solo* shows & festivals
2023
Are we all dead yet? performance commison in response, Curation of Collection by Marti- na Morger, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, LI
2022
>Hosting Stillness, Live Performance and exhibtion, curated by Natalie Nicolades, Centre of Contemporary Art Glasgow (May)*
>Remember, Remembering, Trying to Remember,ShotPut Theatre, Shoot Festival, Coventry (April)
2021
> When I think about the river, I think of you, 1 hour live performance and 00:08:00 exhibited video, Stories of Empathy, Virtual Twin, Art House Worpswede, Germany
> Veins are like flowers extending and growing where I can’t, 90 minute live performance, Soft machines, St Gallen Museum, Switzerland
2020
>Material Energy - one to one remote performance, The Artist is Absent, ArtEZ University of the Arts
>You are both part of this slow life, 30 min performance to camera, Paper Antirave Cave by Laura Mcglinchey, Pipe Factory, commissoned by Look Again Aberdeen 2020
> Bodies of the Water Disco 2 hour live performance and installation in Collaboration with Martina Morger, Algorithmen der Liebe, curated by Baronebreu, PTTH:// Gallery Luzern, Switzeland
2019
>Sophia, 2 Hour Live performance, Stereoskop International Performance Art Festival, Civic House Glasgow, UK
>All I Have Left Collaboration with Carol Breen, 1 hour live performance & digital media Installation ,Press on and Play, Digbeth Weekender Vivid projects Birmingham, UK
>Performing Pink, Now that it is the future, re-creat-ion, Enclave Projects, Depford X Fringe , London, UK
>Spit, Satin, Spit, 2 hour Live performance, SPILL YER YEA, Constellations, Liverpool, UK
>Spit, Pearl, Spit, 2 hour Live performance Bantock House, Disorder Live Art Festival, Wolverhampton, UK
>Performing Pink Part III,3 hour Live performance & Installation Asylum Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK*
>Dissemination, Via the Digital Black Hole Club Launch, Vivid Projects, Birmingham, UK
>Block, Block, Open Bodies, Performer for Stephanie Black Daniels, 90 minute live performance, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK >Performing Pink, Two Part Live performance Each 2 hours, SOUP ptV, Stryx Gallery, Birmingham, UK
>Pull Pack Polish, 2 hour Live performance, SOUPptV Curated Open Studios, Stryx Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2018
>SEXES, Performer in SETS with Stephanie Black -Daniels, Edinburgh College of Art, UK
BLIND DATES WITH THE HISTORY OF..., Performer for Peter Baren, Tempting FailureFestival, London, UK >Summer Camp 2018, Open Studios Birmingham, EastSideProjects Birmingham, UK
> Simply Beaming, EMBASSY Gallery, Edinburgh & HOPE, Engaru, Hokkaido, UK & JP
>Restraint, Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2018, Glasgow, UK
Awards and Funding
VISUAL ARTIST & CRAFT MAKER AWARD: GLASGOW 2020/2021 in partnership with Creative Scotland
Hope Scott Trust Grant 2021
Residencies:
2021
The Collective Studio Artist Development Programme, The NewBridge Project, Newcastle, UK
Virtual Twin,Online research residency, Lunchtime Gallery, Glasgow, UK
2019
Real Food, Collaborative Residency by Laura Van der Tas, Tontine, Glasgow, UK
Black Hole Club, Artist Development Programme, Vivid Projects Birmingham, UK
SOUPptV, Artist Residency, Stryx Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2018
Open Space, December Residency, Performance Space, Folkstone, UK
Further Education
2024
TECHNO? CYBER? QUEER? POST? HYDRO? XENO? FEMINISMS, Institute of Postnatural Studies
2023
Rules of the Game: An Introduction to Task-based Performance Art ECC Performance Art
Inhabiting Time with Marilyn Arsem, ECC Performance Art