Gabrielle Jones
- Aug 11
- 1 min read
Gabrielle Jones’s recent series, Control+Escape, uses the drama and excess of Baroque painting to look at the fast rise of artificial intelligence. The paintings are full of repeated symbols: dots that stand for the zeros in code, for Morse signals, or for bullets, and a checkerboard that suggests strategy games and history being turned upside down. She sets loose, hand-painted marks against tight, mechanical patterns, asking where human creativity fits as machines take over.
Jones is an Australian abstract artist with a career of more than twenty years and twenty-six solo shows behind her. In 2024 she won a $30,000 acquisition prize from the University of Southern Queensland. Her work was on the cover of the 2023 international edition of Abstract Painting by Amber Creswell
Bell, published by Thames and Hudson, and back in 2011 she taught drawing for the Sydney Biennale.
She has held residencies at the Bundanon Trust, once Arthur Boyd’s home, and in Spain, Canada, and Tahiti. Her paintings are in public collections in Australia and abroad, including Fundación Valparaíso in Spain, and she has a solo show coming to Noosa Regional Gallery in early 2027.
