Seven Islands Painting

Born Merseyside 1949 Malcolm Jones lives and works in east London. He has followed a very varied and dynamic career as an artist, showing in many places in Britain and abroad- among them the Royal Academy, National Portrait Gallery and leading galleries in Frankfurt, Munich and Amsterdam. His earliest works incorporated unorthodox materials such as hair, plaster and plastics alongside paint, and led into performance work during the 1970s. In 1976 he painted the walls and ceiling of the Acme Gallery in tones which opposed those cast by the gallery lighting system and in a further piece made an illusory extension to the upper gallery. The dynamics within Malcolm Jones paintings result from procedures of chance ascription and logical modification of colour swatches to circumscribe pictorial space. The process suggested a further resolution within the genre of light relief in which the painted panels made since 1993 relate to each other, both across the gallery planes, but also, within the shallow depth articulated by the prominence afforded by each sub-frame. Jones has located each front vertical plane along a spatial grid which recedes from the viewer in a geometrical progression in such a way as to make objects which are theoretically flat.