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Artist Statement
I would describe my work as an anthropological, social and artistic investigation into the nuances of the daily human experience. My takes on this are often subtle, with a minimal and restrained material approach. I believe that art has a role to play in the wider social realm and that it can effectively elicit contemplation on both the intimate and grand themes of our existence.
I work in several media including primarily, text based works, site specific installation, found objects, photography, interactions and sculpture. Subtle humor and the use of language figure strongly in my art.
I can describe the conceptual underpinnings from which much of my work stems as follows.
1.
The brevity of presence - the ephemeral; our time in a place or moment; the effects of something passing; the remnants that are left behind after something has gone; the poignancy of remembrance. The difficulty in fixing a sense of self or place.
2.
The romance of failure - brokenness in objects, society or relations; what could have been or once was. Poetic investigations and attempts to be in contact with the unattainable the ever-escaping aspects of life.
3.
The legacy of history - I am drawn to places and relics that embody historical events; wrapped in these buildings and locations are our march through the ages. Whether recent historical events or long gone eras, something in the remaining built heritage provides parallels for the way we live today and it is this link that interests me. How we define ourselves today often originates in what went before.
These ideas are expressed through a variety of approaches. I rework old technology, discarded items and abandoned objects by changing their function or adding or altering text that may be a part of these objects or places. I create site specific installations that will engage with the history of a place or even a single object. I am interested in that moment between hope and failure; a place where I often feel suspended.
I would describe my work as an anthropological, social and artistic investigation into the nuances of the daily human experience. My takes on this are often subtle, with a minimal and restrained material approach. I believe that art has a role to play in the wider social realm and that it can effectively elicit contemplation on both the intimate and grand themes of our existence.
I work in several media including primarily, text based works, site specific installation, found objects, photography, interactions and sculpture. Subtle humor and the use of language figure strongly in my art.
I can describe the conceptual underpinnings from which much of my work stems as follows.
1.
The brevity of presence - the ephemeral; our time in a place or moment; the effects of something passing; the remnants that are left behind after something has gone; the poignancy of remembrance. The difficulty in fixing a sense of self or place.
2.
The romance of failure - brokenness in objects, society or relations; what could have been or once was. Poetic investigations and attempts to be in contact with the unattainable the ever-escaping aspects of life.
3.
The legacy of history - I am drawn to places and relics that embody historical events; wrapped in these buildings and locations are our march through the ages. Whether recent historical events or long gone eras, something in the remaining built heritage provides parallels for the way we live today and it is this link that interests me. How we define ourselves today often originates in what went before.
These ideas are expressed through a variety of approaches. I rework old technology, discarded items and abandoned objects by changing their function or adding or altering text that may be a part of these objects or places. I create site specific installations that will engage with the history of a place or even a single object. I am interested in that moment between hope and failure; a place where I often feel suspended.
CV
Education
2006-9 Master of Fine Arts - Hunter College,NY
1993-7 Bachelor of Fine Arts - Central Saint
Martin’s College of Art, London
Solo/Two person shows
2012 This Little Piggy Went to Market; Desire
and Longing in Retail Aesthetics - SHAG
Brooklyn, NY (2 person with Jo Wilmot)
2011 Writes of Passage; Human Communication and
the Written Word (Curator) - Trinity Museum
New York
2010 The Archaeology of Summer - Queensferry
Gallery - Edinburgh
2009 Jones & Roa Expedition - Wayne County
Historical Society Museum - Honesdale, PA
(2 person with Ryan Roa)
2009 Jones and Roa Annex - Orange County
Government Building - Goshen, NY (with Ryan
Roa)
2009 Ascension (Into the Hills) - Queensferry
Gallery – Edinburgh
2008 Jones and Roa - Inaugural Exhibition - New Orange Veterans
Centre - Orange County Arts Council –
Middletown, NY
2008 Jones & Roa Expedition - Neversink Valley
Area Museum - Cuddebackville, NY (with Ryan
Roa)
2005 Fabric of the Nation - Edinburgh
International Festival - David Young
Gallery - Edinburgh
2005 Scream If You Wanna Go Faster - The Foundry
Project Space - London
2004 Infantilism - Lyth Arts Centre Gallery -
Caithness, Scotland
2004 Iconoclasm - Dundas Street Gallery -
Edinburgh, Scotland
Group Shows
2012 Windows @ Walsh 5.0 (curated by Jeanne
Brasile) – Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall
University – South Orange, NJ
2012 New American Landscapes (curated by Jeanne
Brasille) details TBC
2012 The Last Book (organized by Luis Camnitzer)
Staats und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg
Carl von Ossietzky – Germany
2011 Queer Art Mentorship, NY
2011 Video Site Festival - (curated by Jeanne
Brasile) Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
2011 Industrial Aesthetics; Environmental
Influences on Recent Art from Scotland,
Times Square Gallery New York
2011 Flag Day - Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
2011 Object/Self/Subject - New Technologies in
Art - Museum of Russian Art - New Jersey
2011 Site Festival 2011 - various locations
Brooklyn, NY
2011 I Love You so Much That Even When You’re
Lying Next to me I Miss You - National Arts
Club - Gramercy Park, New York, Organized by
Phenomena Project
2011 The Last Book (organized by Luis Camnitzer)
New York Public Library (Guilar Branch)
2010 Pixelpops (organized by Jeanne Brasile) -
New York/New Jersey
2010 All Insignificant Things Must Disappear
Trinity Museum - New York
2010 Today is the Tomorrow You Thought about
Yesterday (curated by Nina Kong) -
Williamsburg Art and Historical Center -
Brooklyn, NY
2010 Junk - Moscow International Biennial of
Young Art (curated by Alexey Maslyaev) -
Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
2010 The Golden Door - Presented by Jersey City
Museum and Liberty National Golf Course
(curated by Christina Vassallo and Risa
Puno)Hamilton Park, NJ
2010 Into the Void (curated by Jeanne
Brasile) - Index Art Center - Newark, NJ
2010 Botanica (curated by Mary Birmingham) -
Hunterdon Art Museum - New Jersey
2010 Ides of March Biennial - ABC No Rio - New
York
2010 Housebroken - Flux Factory - Queens, NY
2010 The Last Book (organized by Luis Camnitzer)
Zentral Bibliothek - Zurich, Switzerland
2010 Pep Rally; ACE curatorial Projects - Times
Square Gallery - New York
2010 Detox (curated by Concrete Allotment
Projects) - 16 Hoxton Square - London
2009 2nd Annual Stitch In - (in association with
Uncommon Threads) - Jersey City Museum - NJ
2009 Uncommon Threads (curated by Jeanne Brasile)
Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University -
South Orange, NJ
2009 Freestyle (curated by Jeanne Brasile) - 744
Gallery; Newark Arts Council - Newark, New
Jersey
2009 Souvenir; Periferias (curated by Jorge
Martin) - Centro Cultural del Matadero -
Huesca, Spain
2009 Politics, Practices and Emotions - Broadway
Gallery - New York, NY
2009 Hanging out at No Rio - ABC No Rio - New
York (curated by Erin Sickler)
2009 ACE Presents; Are We Still in Space - Times
Square Gallery - New York, NY (curatorial)
2009 Hanging out at No Rio - Cuchifritos Gallery
New York (curated by Erin Sickler)
2009 Hudson Valley Artists 2009: Ecotones and
Transitional Zones - Samuel Dorsky Museum of
Art - New Paltz, NY (with Ryan Roa)
2009 Identities - Brooklyn Borough Hall,
Brooklyn, NY (curated by Jorge Martin)
2009 Wild Things - Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park
and Gallery - Dowell, MD
2009 Here, There and Everywhere - Transcultural
Exchange - Boston (with Ryan Roa)
2009 The Sketchbook Project 3 - Art House Gallery
Atlanta, Georgia - travelling to;
Museum of Contemporary Art DC - Washington,
DC, Laconia Gallery - Boston, Massachusetts
Antena Gallery - Chicago, Illinois, Solard
Art Market - St Louis, Missouri, 3rd Ward
Gallery - Brooklyn, New York, Museum of
Design - Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago Art
Source Gallery - Chicago, Illinois
2009 Rock, Paper, Scissors - Estel Gallery -
Nashville, Tennessee
2009 Queens International 4 - Queens Museum of
Art - Queens, NY (curated by Erin Sickler
and Jose Ruiz)
2008 Cryptoreal - (curator/exhibitor) Francis
Lewis Gallery - St. George’s Church, Queens,
NY
2008 Queen’s Treasures (curator) - Francis Lewis
Gallery - St. George’s Church, Queens, NY
2008 A Variety of Gifts - Episcopal Church and
the Visual Arts Invitational - Trinity
Museum - New York
2008 The Last Book - National Library of
Argentina - Buenos Aires
2008 White Goods - Stroud House Gallery - Stroud
Gloucester, England
2008 Supermasochist - Apexart - New York
2008 Word of Mouth - Ohio University Gallery -
Athens, Ohio
2008 Altered States - (curator/exhibitor) Francis
Lewis Gallery - St George’s Church -
Flushing, NY
2008 Adventures in Mysticism - Athens Institute
of Contemporary Art - Athens, Georgia
2008 Theory and Practice - Gallery Aferro -
Newark, New Jersey
2008 Visual Arts Scotland International - Royal
Scottish Academy - Edinburgh
2008 Art of the Book - Pacific Festival of the
Book - Victoria Arts Connection Gallery -
Victoria, Canada
2008 Poetry Book Publication Showcase Exhibition
Poet House - New York, NY
2007 Gallery Exhibition- Artis Gallery -
Aberdour, Scotland
2007 Dialogues - Times Square Gallery - New York
2007 Fast Forward - Flushing Council on Culture &
the Arts - Flushing Town Hall, NY
2007 Mixed Up Group Show - Stripped Gallery -
Edinburgh
2007 Gallery Exhibition - Mercat Gallery - Fife,
Scotland
2006 Merging Of Minds - Steuben West Gallery,
Pratt Institute - Brooklyn, NY
2006 Future First - Residence Gallery - London
2006 Domesticity - Artworks Gallery -
Bournemouth, England
2005 On the Wall - Fly Art Fair Exhibition -
Residence Gallery - London
2005 The Art of Love Exhibition - London Art -
Oxo Tower Gallery - London
2005 Studio Voltaire - Oval House – London
2004 Postcards from the Edge (Visual Aids)
Benefit - Brent Sikkema Gallery - New York
2004 Attack on Precinct Deborah - Deborah House -
London
2004 Shopfloor International, The Main Event -
Deborah House - London
2004 Network AD - Candid Studio Artist Galleries,
London
2003 The Space Studio Show - Belsham St. Studios
London
2002 Winter Show - 491 Gallery - London
2002 Shopfloor Presents - 491 Gallery - London
1998 Supernature - Aberdona Gallery - Stirling,
Scotland
Residencies/Projects
2011 Bay Street Studio Residency – Jersey
City,NJ
2009 ABC No Rio Residency – ABC No Rio – New York
2008 St George’s Church Artist in Residence
Program – Flushing, NY
2007 The Jones and Roa Expedition (with Ryan Roa)
Honesdale, PA /Kingston, NY
2007 Cairn Project 1 – Castle Campbell - Ochil
Hills, Scotland
2007 Pines Bluff Artist in Residence – Pines
Bluff, Fire Island, NY
2004 Lyth Arts Center Residency – Caithness,
Scotland
1997 Centerpoint Housing Workshops for the
Homeless - Centerpoint House – London
Awards
2009 Fife County Council Art and Heritage Grant -
Grant recipient
2009 Wild Things - Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park
“Water Category” Award winner
2008 Scottish International Education Trust -
Award recipient
2008 3rd Ward Gallery, Pernod Solo Show Finalist
Brooklyn, New York
2008 Episcopal Charities of Long Island Grant for St. George’s Church
2007 Scottish International Education Trust -
Award recipient
2005 London Art - Short listed artist
1997 Leycol Design Prize - Winner
1997 Business Design International - Featured
artist
1996 London Institute/Pratt Institute Exchange
Recipient
Press/Media/Reviews
12/20/10 What Remains? When All Insignificant
Things Must Disappear – Culture Catch
Michelina Docimo
12/15/10 What Remains? When All Insignificant
Things Must Disappear – Myartbiography
Michelina Docimo
11/16/10 All Insignificant Things Must Disappear
Snob Magazine - New York
11/10/10 Get a Glimpse of Seismic Shifts Caused
by Economic Downfall at Trinity Museum
Examiner.com, New York
06/28/10 Miniature golf course in Jersey City is
actually interactive art installation -
Star Ledger, New Jersey
Jan 2010 Transforming Visual Territories - New
York Arts Magazine
11/30/09 Uncommon Threads shows Convergence of
Craft and Art - South Orange Patch
10/23/09 Especial Periferias - Heraldo De Huesca
05/26/09 Portrait of an Artist; Darren Jones -
Transition Tradition Magazine
02/01/09 Featuring Darren Jones - New York
Foundation for the Arts Immigrant
Newsletter
12/07/08 Faith in the City - New York Daily News
New York
08/28/08 Computer Apologizes in New Exhibition -
Stroud News and Journal - England
05/25/08 The Last Book - Volume Magazine (15) -
Netherlands
05/20/08 ATHICA Exhibit ponders the Ethereal –
Flagpole Magazine – Georgia
05/08/08 On the Spot interview – Dunfermline &
West Fife Press - Scotland
05/01/08 Flushing Church launches first art
exhibition, Flushing Times – New York
04/28/08 Artist re-united with ex teacher –
Dunfermline & West Fife Press – Scotland
04/12/08 Explaining the Unexplained – Athens
Banner Herald - Georgia
04/03/08 Inspired by West Fife - Dunfermline
Press Scotland
04/01/08 St. George’s Gallery opening – The
Dominion – Long Island - New York
03/30/08 Maps, Diaries and Drawings along a
lifeline – New Jersey Sunday Herald - NJ
03/12/08 Jones and Roa – PortJervis.com – New
York
03/13/08 Jones and Roa – Hudson Valley News – NY
01/22/08 Canal Walk – Neversink Valley Area
Museum News – NY
01/20/08 Art Attack – Sunday Post – UK
01/11/08 Rooted in Art – Dundee Courier -
Scotland
01/03/08 An American Odyssey – Dunfermline & West
Fife Press, Scotland
07/17/05 Introducing…Darren Jones – Scotland on
Sunday
10/28/04 Attack of the Artist - Hackney Gazette –
London
07/16/04 Late Late Breakfast Show,
Resonance104.4fm - The Foundry, London
04/12/04 Spotlight - Dunfermline Press - Scotland
04/29/04 The Artist Who Burns His Work -
Dunfermline & West Fife Press - Scotland
03/23/04 Fabric of the Nation - Edinburgh Gallery
Guide
03/24/04 Young Guns - Dundee & East of Scotland
Courier
Lectures
12/08/10 Nature of Creativity - Trinity Museum
and Institute, New York
11/14/10 All Insignificant Things Must Disappear
Gallery tour and lecture - Trinity
Museum New York
07/23/09 Hudson Valley Artists gallery talks
“Jones and Roa Expedition” - Samuel
Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
05/01/09 Jones and Roa Expedition Lecture – Wayne
County Historical Society Museum
Honesdale, Pennsylvania (with Ryan Roa)
01/28/09 For a Kantian Critique on Modernism –
With Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier
New York Studio School of Painting and
Drawing, New York
01/10/09 Cryptoreal tour and lecture – Francis
Lewis Gallery - Queens, New York
04/08/08 Jones and Roa Expedition Lecture -
Neversink Valley Area Museum –
Cuddebackville, N
Education
2006-9 Master of Fine Arts - Hunter College,NY
1993-7 Bachelor of Fine Arts - Central Saint
Martin’s College of Art, London
Solo/Two person shows
2012 This Little Piggy Went to Market; Desire
and Longing in Retail Aesthetics - SHAG
Brooklyn, NY (2 person with Jo Wilmot)
2011 Writes of Passage; Human Communication and
the Written Word (Curator) - Trinity Museum
New York
2010 The Archaeology of Summer - Queensferry
Gallery - Edinburgh
2009 Jones & Roa Expedition - Wayne County
Historical Society Museum - Honesdale, PA
(2 person with Ryan Roa)
2009 Jones and Roa Annex - Orange County
Government Building - Goshen, NY (with Ryan
Roa)
2009 Ascension (Into the Hills) - Queensferry
Gallery – Edinburgh
2008 Jones and Roa - Inaugural Exhibition - New Orange Veterans
Centre - Orange County Arts Council –
Middletown, NY
2008 Jones & Roa Expedition - Neversink Valley
Area Museum - Cuddebackville, NY (with Ryan
Roa)
2005 Fabric of the Nation - Edinburgh
International Festival - David Young
Gallery - Edinburgh
2005 Scream If You Wanna Go Faster - The Foundry
Project Space - London
2004 Infantilism - Lyth Arts Centre Gallery -
Caithness, Scotland
2004 Iconoclasm - Dundas Street Gallery -
Edinburgh, Scotland
Group Shows
2012 Windows @ Walsh 5.0 (curated by Jeanne
Brasile) – Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall
University – South Orange, NJ
2012 New American Landscapes (curated by Jeanne
Brasille) details TBC
2012 The Last Book (organized by Luis Camnitzer)
Staats und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg
Carl von Ossietzky – Germany
2011 Queer Art Mentorship, NY
2011 Video Site Festival - (curated by Jeanne
Brasile) Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
2011 Industrial Aesthetics; Environmental
Influences on Recent Art from Scotland,
Times Square Gallery New York
2011 Flag Day - Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY
2011 Object/Self/Subject - New Technologies in
Art - Museum of Russian Art - New Jersey
2011 Site Festival 2011 - various locations
Brooklyn, NY
2011 I Love You so Much That Even When You’re
Lying Next to me I Miss You - National Arts
Club - Gramercy Park, New York, Organized by
Phenomena Project
2011 The Last Book (organized by Luis Camnitzer)
New York Public Library (Guilar Branch)
2010 Pixelpops (organized by Jeanne Brasile) -
New York/New Jersey
2010 All Insignificant Things Must Disappear
Trinity Museum - New York
2010 Today is the Tomorrow You Thought about
Yesterday (curated by Nina Kong) -
Williamsburg Art and Historical Center -
Brooklyn, NY
2010 Junk - Moscow International Biennial of
Young Art (curated by Alexey Maslyaev) -
Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
2010 The Golden Door - Presented by Jersey City
Museum and Liberty National Golf Course
(curated by Christina Vassallo and Risa
Puno)Hamilton Park, NJ
2010 Into the Void (curated by Jeanne
Brasile) - Index Art Center - Newark, NJ
2010 Botanica (curated by Mary Birmingham) -
Hunterdon Art Museum - New Jersey
2010 Ides of March Biennial - ABC No Rio - New
York
2010 Housebroken - Flux Factory - Queens, NY
2010 The Last Book (organized by Luis Camnitzer)
Zentral Bibliothek - Zurich, Switzerland
2010 Pep Rally; ACE curatorial Projects - Times
Square Gallery - New York
2010 Detox (curated by Concrete Allotment
Projects) - 16 Hoxton Square - London
2009 2nd Annual Stitch In - (in association with
Uncommon Threads) - Jersey City Museum - NJ
2009 Uncommon Threads (curated by Jeanne Brasile)
Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University -
South Orange, NJ
2009 Freestyle (curated by Jeanne Brasile) - 744
Gallery; Newark Arts Council - Newark, New
Jersey
2009 Souvenir; Periferias (curated by Jorge
Martin) - Centro Cultural del Matadero -
Huesca, Spain
2009 Politics, Practices and Emotions - Broadway
Gallery - New York, NY
2009 Hanging out at No Rio - ABC No Rio - New
York (curated by Erin Sickler)
2009 ACE Presents; Are We Still in Space - Times
Square Gallery - New York, NY (curatorial)
2009 Hanging out at No Rio - Cuchifritos Gallery
New York (curated by Erin Sickler)
2009 Hudson Valley Artists 2009: Ecotones and
Transitional Zones - Samuel Dorsky Museum of
Art - New Paltz, NY (with Ryan Roa)
2009 Identities - Brooklyn Borough Hall,
Brooklyn, NY (curated by Jorge Martin)
2009 Wild Things - Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park
and Gallery - Dowell, MD
2009 Here, There and Everywhere - Transcultural
Exchange - Boston (with Ryan Roa)
2009 The Sketchbook Project 3 - Art House Gallery
Atlanta, Georgia - travelling to;
Museum of Contemporary Art DC - Washington,
DC, Laconia Gallery - Boston, Massachusetts
Antena Gallery - Chicago, Illinois, Solard
Art Market - St Louis, Missouri, 3rd Ward
Gallery - Brooklyn, New York, Museum of
Design - Atlanta, Georgia, Chicago Art
Source Gallery - Chicago, Illinois
2009 Rock, Paper, Scissors - Estel Gallery -
Nashville, Tennessee
2009 Queens International 4 - Queens Museum of
Art - Queens, NY (curated by Erin Sickler
and Jose Ruiz)
2008 Cryptoreal - (curator/exhibitor) Francis
Lewis Gallery - St. George’s Church, Queens,
NY
2008 Queen’s Treasures (curator) - Francis Lewis
Gallery - St. George’s Church, Queens, NY
2008 A Variety of Gifts - Episcopal Church and
the Visual Arts Invitational - Trinity
Museum - New York
2008 The Last Book - National Library of
Argentina - Buenos Aires
2008 White Goods - Stroud House Gallery - Stroud
Gloucester, England
2008 Supermasochist - Apexart - New York
2008 Word of Mouth - Ohio University Gallery -
Athens, Ohio
2008 Altered States - (curator/exhibitor) Francis
Lewis Gallery - St George’s Church -
Flushing, NY
2008 Adventures in Mysticism - Athens Institute
of Contemporary Art - Athens, Georgia
2008 Theory and Practice - Gallery Aferro -
Newark, New Jersey
2008 Visual Arts Scotland International - Royal
Scottish Academy - Edinburgh
2008 Art of the Book - Pacific Festival of the
Book - Victoria Arts Connection Gallery -
Victoria, Canada
2008 Poetry Book Publication Showcase Exhibition
Poet House - New York, NY
2007 Gallery Exhibition- Artis Gallery -
Aberdour, Scotland
2007 Dialogues - Times Square Gallery - New York
2007 Fast Forward - Flushing Council on Culture &
the Arts - Flushing Town Hall, NY
2007 Mixed Up Group Show - Stripped Gallery -
Edinburgh
2007 Gallery Exhibition - Mercat Gallery - Fife,
Scotland
2006 Merging Of Minds - Steuben West Gallery,
Pratt Institute - Brooklyn, NY
2006 Future First - Residence Gallery - London
2006 Domesticity - Artworks Gallery -
Bournemouth, England
2005 On the Wall - Fly Art Fair Exhibition -
Residence Gallery - London
2005 The Art of Love Exhibition - London Art -
Oxo Tower Gallery - London
2005 Studio Voltaire - Oval House – London
2004 Postcards from the Edge (Visual Aids)
Benefit - Brent Sikkema Gallery - New York
2004 Attack on Precinct Deborah - Deborah House -
London
2004 Shopfloor International, The Main Event -
Deborah House - London
2004 Network AD - Candid Studio Artist Galleries,
London
2003 The Space Studio Show - Belsham St. Studios
London
2002 Winter Show - 491 Gallery - London
2002 Shopfloor Presents - 491 Gallery - London
1998 Supernature - Aberdona Gallery - Stirling,
Scotland
Residencies/Projects
2011 Bay Street Studio Residency – Jersey
City,NJ
2009 ABC No Rio Residency – ABC No Rio – New York
2008 St George’s Church Artist in Residence
Program – Flushing, NY
2007 The Jones and Roa Expedition (with Ryan Roa)
Honesdale, PA /Kingston, NY
2007 Cairn Project 1 – Castle Campbell - Ochil
Hills, Scotland
2007 Pines Bluff Artist in Residence – Pines
Bluff, Fire Island, NY
2004 Lyth Arts Center Residency – Caithness,
Scotland
1997 Centerpoint Housing Workshops for the
Homeless - Centerpoint House – London
Awards
2009 Fife County Council Art and Heritage Grant -
Grant recipient
2009 Wild Things - Annmarie Garden Sculpture Park
“Water Category” Award winner
2008 Scottish International Education Trust -
Award recipient
2008 3rd Ward Gallery, Pernod Solo Show Finalist
Brooklyn, New York
2008 Episcopal Charities of Long Island Grant for St. George’s Church
2007 Scottish International Education Trust -
Award recipient
2005 London Art - Short listed artist
1997 Leycol Design Prize - Winner
1997 Business Design International - Featured
artist
1996 London Institute/Pratt Institute Exchange
Recipient
Press/Media/Reviews
12/20/10 What Remains? When All Insignificant
Things Must Disappear – Culture Catch
Michelina Docimo
12/15/10 What Remains? When All Insignificant
Things Must Disappear – Myartbiography
Michelina Docimo
11/16/10 All Insignificant Things Must Disappear
Snob Magazine - New York
11/10/10 Get a Glimpse of Seismic Shifts Caused
by Economic Downfall at Trinity Museum
Examiner.com, New York
06/28/10 Miniature golf course in Jersey City is
actually interactive art installation -
Star Ledger, New Jersey
Jan 2010 Transforming Visual Territories - New
York Arts Magazine
11/30/09 Uncommon Threads shows Convergence of
Craft and Art - South Orange Patch
10/23/09 Especial Periferias - Heraldo De Huesca
05/26/09 Portrait of an Artist; Darren Jones -
Transition Tradition Magazine
02/01/09 Featuring Darren Jones - New York
Foundation for the Arts Immigrant
Newsletter
12/07/08 Faith in the City - New York Daily News
New York
08/28/08 Computer Apologizes in New Exhibition -
Stroud News and Journal - England
05/25/08 The Last Book - Volume Magazine (15) -
Netherlands
05/20/08 ATHICA Exhibit ponders the Ethereal –
Flagpole Magazine – Georgia
05/08/08 On the Spot interview – Dunfermline &
West Fife Press - Scotland
05/01/08 Flushing Church launches first art
exhibition, Flushing Times – New York
04/28/08 Artist re-united with ex teacher –
Dunfermline & West Fife Press – Scotland
04/12/08 Explaining the Unexplained – Athens
Banner Herald - Georgia
04/03/08 Inspired by West Fife - Dunfermline
Press Scotland
04/01/08 St. George’s Gallery opening – The
Dominion – Long Island - New York
03/30/08 Maps, Diaries and Drawings along a
lifeline – New Jersey Sunday Herald - NJ
03/12/08 Jones and Roa – PortJervis.com – New
York
03/13/08 Jones and Roa – Hudson Valley News – NY
01/22/08 Canal Walk – Neversink Valley Area
Museum News – NY
01/20/08 Art Attack – Sunday Post – UK
01/11/08 Rooted in Art – Dundee Courier -
Scotland
01/03/08 An American Odyssey – Dunfermline & West
Fife Press, Scotland
07/17/05 Introducing…Darren Jones – Scotland on
Sunday
10/28/04 Attack of the Artist - Hackney Gazette –
London
07/16/04 Late Late Breakfast Show,
Resonance104.4fm - The Foundry, London
04/12/04 Spotlight - Dunfermline Press - Scotland
04/29/04 The Artist Who Burns His Work -
Dunfermline & West Fife Press - Scotland
03/23/04 Fabric of the Nation - Edinburgh Gallery
Guide
03/24/04 Young Guns - Dundee & East of Scotland
Courier
Lectures
12/08/10 Nature of Creativity - Trinity Museum
and Institute, New York
11/14/10 All Insignificant Things Must Disappear
Gallery tour and lecture - Trinity
Museum New York
07/23/09 Hudson Valley Artists gallery talks
“Jones and Roa Expedition” - Samuel
Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
05/01/09 Jones and Roa Expedition Lecture – Wayne
County Historical Society Museum
Honesdale, Pennsylvania (with Ryan Roa)
01/28/09 For a Kantian Critique on Modernism –
With Joachim Pissarro and David Carrier
New York Studio School of Painting and
Drawing, New York
01/10/09 Cryptoreal tour and lecture – Francis
Lewis Gallery - Queens, New York
04/08/08 Jones and Roa Expedition Lecture -
Neversink Valley Area Museum –
Cuddebackville, N
A Time and a Place, mixed media, 2011, dimensions variableThis grouping shows the temporary build up of personal objects which one accumulates on short trips away from home. They exist together only momentarily in the hotel room or friend's apartment, dispersed, discarded or left behind when we leave.
Revelation; you will find no answers here, 2009, text in noticeboard, dimensions variableText intervention on the psalms board at St. George's Church in Queens.
Deeper Understanding, 2009, damaged computer, re-arranged keyboard keys, 17"x12"This crashed and broken computer, from which I demanded such speed and capability, finally gave up on me. While it is now trapped in a perpetual start up process that it never completes, I have moved on and now have a new computer in my life.
The text intervention on the keyboard reads "I know that you are feeling tired".
It's the Little Things That Make me Think you Care, preserved mouse, wall, 2010, variable dimensions.He was so still and quiet at the edge of the kerb. I was stopped dead in my tracks at the fragility and helplessness of him. He didn't move. I noticed that he was bleeding from his right ear. I suspected he had eaten poison. After 3 days and nights of care and round the clock attempts to help him recover, he passed. I placed him behind the wall in a recess as though he were sleeping.
Pumping Irony, 2011, chalk intervention on gym noticeboard, dimensions variable.In these hastily shot images I respond to the varied motivational comments and typically upbeat messages written on the notice board of the gym by trainers and members.
My responses are intended to suggest an alternative to the constant positivity but this is not always appreciated. Replies to my responses can go back and forth anonymously over days or weeks.
I Don't Feel Safe, pebbles on thin ice, 2010, dimensions variable.As the ice melted slowly throughout the day, the pebbles one by one began to drop through the ice, fragmenting the words and fulfilling the sentiment expressed in the text.
It's easy to go unnoticed, 2009, white vinyl text on a white wall, 48"x3".This sentence reads, 'its easy to go unnoticed'. It is made from white vinyl and placed on a white wall so that it becomes almost invisible from most angles.This artwork therefore physically expresses its own sense of disenfranchisement.
Suspended Sentence #3, 2010, mylar balloons, transfer text, rock, dimensions variable. Balloons are associated with celebration and positivity but ultimately they fail as the gas escapes. These balloons are printed with sobering phrases and sentences which are discovered upon closer inspection. The text provides a melancholy counterweight to the delight of looking at these attractive objects. As the balloons usefulness as a pleasant, momentary distraction erodes over time, the meaning in the texts gains more weight. The rock is from Lakehurst Naval Airfield, site of the Hindenburg Airship Disaster.
Suspended Sentence #3(detail),2010, mylar balloons, transfer text, rock, dimensions variable.
Myth Building, 2011, photographic print, dimensions variable.Glamis Castle is steeped in 1000 years of history; 9 resident ghosts, secret passageways and the setting for Macbeth's Murder of King Duncan, it is the most haunted building in Scotland. It is the ultimate predecessor in the contemporary notion of 'Myth Building'.
Nebula, 2009, horsehoe Crab shells, sand, mirrorball, 7'x7'x2'.Horseshoe Crabs are the oldest surviving animals on the planet. The mirror ball washed up on the same beach as the crabs, its once central role in the heat of the music and the dance now discarded and silent. I wanted to resurrect it. There is something of the cycle of life, of the universe, in the clamoring mass of creatures reaching for this glittering star.
Reservation, 2008, muslin, table settings, 8'x14'A meeting that was expected and never came. Miss Haversham and the Marie Celeste converge on this longed for moment set up for over 3 years now to gather dust.
Reservation (detail), 2008, muslin, table settings, 8'x14'
Donor Support,2009 mylar balloons, dimensions variable.An attempt to resuscitate the ailing remains of a fading memory, personified in an object which was recovered from the location of the event.
While attempts to re-inflate it failed, attaching it to a new version of the same balloon did allow the damaged original to ascend once more.
Singularity,2011, 1 dollar bill, 1.5"x1.5"
When I am Laid in Earth, 2011, water tank, rainwater, text, umbrella, 28"x14"x19".The ragged remains of a $2.99 umbrella, bought, used, broken and discarded during a thunderstorm were collected and refolded.
Rainwater collected over months in this tank now drowns the very device that is supposed to protect us from such natural elements.
The failure of this shield and it's inexorable rotting in the substance it was designed to keep out, form a slow memorial to the demise of our best intentions even as the water itself evaporates, leaving its history on the tank walls. The text only readble in reverse under the water line reads 'hard to imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth'.
Internal Bleeding, 2011, egg.On never knowing what is going on inside.