Lucia Jones is an award-winning Welsh painter. Since graduating from Falmouth University, she has exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions including BEEP Painting Prize 2018 and 2024. She is the 2025 Wakelin Award Recipient and has also been long listed for a number of art prizes such as John Moores 2020, Jacksons Art Prize 2022 and 2023. Her work is currently held in private and public collections including Australia, Austria, Hong Kong, Mexico, UK and USA.
Jones’ practice explores memory and self-perception through the constructs of paint and film. Focusing on the female psyche in painted space, she draws inspiration from 50s-90s b-movies, art history, and her own photographs, recontextualizing women as anonymized subjects within fractured and fabricated environments. These painted scenes act as cyphers for lived experience, to be glimpsed and examined. Her recent works explore societal expectations placed on women and the performative nature of femininity, depicting figures in liminal spaces that blur the boundaries between the real and imagined, the revealed and concealed. They inhabit the tension between societal constraints and personal autonomy.
For further work, please visit ljonesart.co.uk or Instagram @luciajones.art