Ross Jones
Previously chosen for the Jerwood Drawing prize and Celeste Art prize, regional winner of the National Open Art Prize and recently showing in a solo show at the William Angel Gallery, Ross Jones’s drawings and paintings refine a contemporary political mindscape. His sharp extractions of generic political issues combine elements of brutal realism with ludicrous geometry and precision, memorable iconography and enticing detail with large media. Within their vast white contexts Jones’s work forces us to contextualise and focus on issues we habitually encounter on page and at a distance. As comments they are mindfully neutral: there is no specific place or stance on the symbolic subjects that is not imported by the viewer’s interpretation.
Affordable Housing
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Drawing
150cm x 90cm
Paper, Pencil
This piece takes architecture reminiscent the post-war concrete tower block as its motif, arranging the stern logical structures in a v-shape like a flight formation on the page. Given space between each and away from the degenerated urban context their functional geometry, emphasised by the triangular formation, is surprisingly aesthetically appealing but equally inhumanly repetitious.
£1,500
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