Private View

Private View #2: Reece Jones (Part 2)

February 25, 2020 Jack
Private View
Private View #2: Reece Jones (Part 2)
Show Notes

In this episode I talked to the artist Reece Jones. I’ve known Reece for almost twenty years. First meeting him at the Royal Academy School of Art, when I was in the third year and he was in the first year. Then later amongst the circle of artists and friends who hung out and were involved with the two project spaces, Rockwell and Keith Talent during the early 2000’s. Reece was one of the co-founders of Rockwell space. Keith Talent was run and co-founded by Andrew Clarkin and Simon Pittuck. Both were in Hackney, London. 

 This was an exciting period to be an artist when it seemed a scene was happening, through pop-up shows in project spaces in abandoned warehouses, mainly situated around the East End.  

We discuss this period and its significance to Reece’s development as an artist. And also about the Royal Academy school of art, amongst other subjects such as teaching and music 

Reece makes beautiful drawings made up of complex layers of charcoal that is then meticulously erased to reveal areas of light and darkness. Recent work depict landscapes with a cubic or cylindrical monolith of light emerging from the darkness, evoking the romantic sublime; but also are cinematic in appearance referencing science fiction films such as Andre Tarkovsky's, Stalker and Stanley Kubrick's, 2001 Space Oddessy.

Since leaving the Royal Academy in 2002 he has exhibited extensively. He has had work shown in the drawing Room in London, All Visual Arts in London, Torrance Art Museum in California, Wooster Projects in New York, Triumph Gallery Moscow. Recently he was in the group show The Gulf Between at Cultuurhus de Warande, Turnhot in Belgium and in This Land Is Our Land at Paper in Manchester; curated  by Simon Woolham and Stephen Walter. He is currently showing in the group show A Dreadful Day which opens this month at Paul Stolper Gallery.

Check his work on Instagram @studiorjones.

Our conversation was held in his studio in Mile End, on a cold evening in December 2018.

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Published: Feb. 13, 2020 @ 9AM Edit

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