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Nicholas Jones: book artist, dissector and carver

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7 September 2010

Congratulations Nicholas Jones!

I was very proud to see Nicholas Jones on ABC's Art Nation last Sunday.

I began working with Nicholas a few years ago, when he decided to become a full-time artist and left his teaching job behind.

Nicholas is well known in Naarm / Melbourne for his beautiful manner and impeccable look and grooming. He has a Bachelor of Fine Art (VCA), Master of Art (RMIT) and Grad Dip Ed (Melbourne University).

I have seen Nicholas go from strength to strength developing his works, widening his communities and opportunities. Nicholas has had many successful group exhibitions and significant solos. His work has been shown at Pablo Fanque (Sydney), Geelong Regional Gallery (Geelong, Victoria) and Craft Victoria, MARS Gallery and fortyfive downstairs (Melbourne) to name a few.

"Nicholas Jones has been described as a 'book artist, book dissector and book carver'. Based in Naarm / Melbourne, Jones collects discarded books that no longer have a home. Folding, refolding, tearing, cutting and sewing their pages, he carefully and quite deliberately dissects them, creating delicate and exquisite sculptural installations. Constantly inspired by the material he works with, Jones is intrigued by the history these books tell, 'as if they are explaining their lives as I slice into them'. Intrigued by their history and inspired by the idea of difference, his work is as much about process as it is about the form – 'these books were conceived, born, loved, stored, discarded, found anew, studied, cut, folded and reborn'."

Part of the Melbourne Writers Festival 2010, Nicholas's works were on exhibit at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), at Federation Square, in Naarm / Melbourne.