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Lives and works in Dover. After studying painting at The Byam Shaw School and the Royal Academy Schools she spent over twenty years in Germany developing her practice and exhibiting internationally. She returned to the UK in 1997 and, in 2001, was the recipient of an Arts Council Year of the Artist award for a light projection on the cliffs at Samphire Hoe in Kent. Over several decades, Jones' work has evolved as part of an intense emotional and intellectual process of self discovery and unveiling. With the body itself becoming the brush, her paintings and projections aspire to universality in their expression of being and presence. For some time now Jones has been working with the problematic of contemplative reception in the public space. She is interested in removing the emphasis from the means of production of her work to finding new ways for it to be experienced. joannajones.co.uk | cornerhouse.org/books