Christoph Jones is a conceptual artist living and working in London.
Exhibitions
Solo Shows
1000 Kilometres - Truman Brewery, London, 2020.
Group Shows
RCA 2023 - The Truman Brewery, London, 2023
RCA 2023 Online Show - Online Exhibition, 2023
Pure Class 2022 - St John’s on Bethnal Green, London, 2022
Cloud Shelter - Online Exhibition, 2022
are you here will you be there -Slash Arts, London, 2021
Pure Class - 399 Hornsey Road, London, 2021
This Is Not A Show - Pineapple Black Gallery, Virtual Exhibition, 2021
Everything Forever - Online Exhibition, 2021
The Royal College of Art Work in Progress Exhibition, 2021 - Online Exhibition, 2021
Erotica: The Art of Love, Nature, and Dick Drawings - Blank Space Gallery, Oslo, 2019
Free Range Show 2019 - Truman Brewery, London, 2019
Peel - Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 2019
Popcorn, Beer and Politics - OVADA Gallery, Oxford, 2018
The Great Divide - OVADA Gallery, Oxford, 2018
Revolt - Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 2018
Millennial Tide - Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 2017
Customers - Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, 2017.
Platform - MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, 2016.
Final Show - Bucks New University, High Wycombe, 2016
Awards
Free Range Award for Fine Art, Winner - 2019
Platform Award at Modern Art Oxford, Shortlisted - 2019
Showcase Award at Milton Keynes Gallery, Winner - 2016
RBA Young Artist Award, Runner-Up - 2007
Education
MA Contemporary Art Practice, Public Sphere - The Royal College of Art, 2023.
BA Fine Art, First Class Honours - Oxford Brookes University, 2019.
FdA Art, Design & Media - Buckinghamshire New University, 2016.
Publications + Press
Organise! Magazine - Refugee List: Using Social Media and Art Activism to Fight For Refugee Rights and the Victims of Fortress Europe
Made In Bed Magazine - Disrupting the Social Class Stigma in London’s Top Art Institutions
Our World Too - Hello my name is: The Refugee List
Port Magazine - Free Range 2019
Statement
Christoph Jones produces multimedia works with a clear focus on trying to make art that is bigger than himself and his world. These conceptual pieces are guided by a ferocious questioning of societal, political and ethical axioms, using his art as a vehicle for activism and self expression.
His work contains a deep sensitivity of the individual within a global context, often portraying a single person’s account or impression of an event though metaphor, image or allegory. Jones’ current body of work seeks to draw attention to hostile approaches taken by the European Union and the UK government towards migration, as well as the impact of global Climate Breakdown, whilst pointing a finger at the Capitalistic machinations that cause and prolong these issues.
The artist’s goal is to to enrol the viewer in the work - removing the option of disconnecting from what the artist believes is the reality. On the surface the work may seem negative, angry, and sad but, ultimately, Jones’ hopes that by extrapolating the grim, it can encourage utopia.