Laura Jones

Arcadia by Laura Jones opens at Glasshouse, Port Macquarie 6 March 2020 at 6pm. The exhibition will run from 7 March – 19 April 2020.

Arcadia by Laura Jones opens at Glasshouse, Port Macquarie 6 March at 6pm. The exhibition will run from 7 March â?? 19 April 2020.

A painting by a celebrated Sydney artist stolen from a Mascot business while the paint was still wet has been recovered.

A celebrated Sydney artist whose still wet painting was stolen from a business in Mascot last week hopes the thief is caught red-handed.

Painter Laura Jones had just finished an 81 x 61cm oil canvas of Australian native flowers that was to be auctioned for bushfire relief when she took it to a business in Mascot to be photographed ahead of the National Art School's Home: Bushfire Relief Art Auction Fundraiser on Wednesday.

Sydney art dealer Tim Olsen describes artist Laura Jones as “the real deal”.  In an era where so many artists are caught in an existential crisis, paroled by a desire to create pretty work in order to appeal to the widest possible audience, Jones transcends this hubbub.

You can introduce colour to your home in so many different ways, but one strong piece of art will make the most impact. We talk to eight of our favourite Australian artists to find out how colour influences their work.

Laura Jones in conversation with Anne Ryan, Curator from the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Speaking at her exhibition of Works on Paper at OLSEN Gallery Annexe, November 2018 Part 1 of 2.

Click here to view part 2 

Laura Jones's painting has been featured in this months issue of Vogue Living.

Artwork details: 

 Space Dahlias 2018

 oil on linen

122 x 102cm

OLSEN Gallery  OLSEN gallery would like to congratulate Laura Jones. Laura Jones was recently named the feature artist for Dumbo Feather's climate change issues, in which she speaks about her time as an artist-in-residence at the Australian Museum Lizard Island Research Station. The article features Laura?s diary entries, where she documents her up-close experience of the Great Barrier Reef?s changing conditions. The feature also includes a podcast from their series That Time When, "where we chat with people about moments big or small that changed the course of their lives.
"Laura brings to life her experience of witnessing the Great Barrier Reef?s changing conditions, how she learnt to use her art as a form of activism and how she worked alongside science to interpret and bring attention to the problems that our planet is facing".
Below are links to both the article and the podcast. https://www.dumbofeather.com/articles/laura-jones-diary-reef/ https://www.dumbofeather.com/podcast/time-used-art-activism/    

Laura brings to life her experience of witnessing the Great Barrier Reef’s changing conditions, how she learnt to use her art as a form of activism and how she worked alongside science to interpret and bring attention to the problems that our planet is facing.

Talking art education with Laura Jones, Steven Alderton and Andrew Frost. 

Watch the full episode on http://www.abc.net.au/news/programs/the-mix/2017-05-20/the-mix/8543842 

Laura Jones' upcoming exhibition features a series of paintings and sculptures depicting the life and death of the Great Barrier Reef.

Read the full article on Broadsheet Sydney's website here.

Best known in recent years for her distinctive flower paintings, this year Sydney artist Laura Jones explores emotive new territory.

With an urge to learn more about the Great Barrier Reef's devastating mass bleaching event of 2016, Laura sought out a residency on Lizard Island, and then more recently on Heron Island. Painting in close proximity to the reef, and meeting the dedicated scientists who study it, has inspired a spectacular new series of paintings for Laura.

We talked with Laura ahead of her upcoming exhibition ‘Bleached‘ at Olsen Gallery in Sydney, opening mid-May.

The artist says her undeniably sad portraits of bleached coral on the Great Barrier Reef are about resilience: ‘It’s not a fragile delicate flower … it’s so important to be optimistic and do what we can to protect it’

Laura Jones visits the home and studio of Brett Whiteley, reflecting on the profound impact the late artist made on her life as a painter.