Private View

The artist studio has dramatically changed from the old romantic, cliché of a dirty cold garret. Evolving into a work space that is adapted by the artist to cater for their means, enabling the artist to create without distraction. The studio has now become a place of interchangeable meaning. Some artists prefer a clean white space, but others use it as an office; a place to organise production, facilitating fabrication to outside manufactures or to plan schedules for fieldwork.Hosted by Jack Duplock. Private View presents conversations with artists within their studio environment. Discussing the varied ways the studio impacts on their arts practice. You can follow Jacks work on instagram @jackduplock and www.jackduplock.co.uk

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Private View #2: Reece Jones (Part 2)

February 25, 2020 • Jack

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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