Art Auction - Arms Around the Child, Timed

Reece Jones graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2002 going on to co- establish the Rockwell Project Space in Hackney, London. His work has been shown extensively worldwide and is featured in many significant collections.

Reece’s practice is process led challenging some of the potential preconceptions of what we mean by ‘drawing’ and what certain materials are traditionally encouraged to do. He is also interested in narrative suggestion and in belief structures. Reece will often invent images, culling from a broad archive of source material and developing rangy, fantastical imagery. He’s essentially interested in using fragile, shifting materials to reference intangible, uncertain spaces, objects and ideas.

Recurrent themes in his work include reference to the sublime and to the American Wilderness, modernism, land art, archaeology, cinema, mythology, spectacle, menace, photography and time. His studio practice is labour intensive and requires a constant reconsideration of the implications of skill and craft. Sometimes the outcome is dreamlike and beautiful, sometimes ominous, sometimes downright awkward.