Alan Jones (b. 1977), artist, completed an advanced diploma of fine arts at the National Art School, Sydney, in 1997. That year he won the inaugural Pat Corrigan Travelling Art Scholarship. In 2000 he completed his bachelor’s degree at NAS. Awarded the Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship in 2014, he undertook a residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris before working in Berlin and New York. Over the course of his painting career, he says, he has done every conceivable day job to augment his income. For some years he held solo shows at Legge Gallery and Watters Gallery; in 2014 he began showing with Olsen Irwin (now Olsen Gallery). Jones has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize (2013, 2014 and 2016), Wynne Prize (2017) and Sulman Prize (2005, 2019 and 2020) at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. His work has won many awards including the 2010 Kedumba Drawing Award, 2011 Fisher’s Ghost Art Award, 2014 Kilgour Prize and 2015 Mosman Art Prize. Jones has held many solo and group exhibitions throughout state, regional and commercial galleries in Australia, the UK and Asia.
