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Education:
2017-2019 Goldsmiths University of London – MFA Pass with Distinction 

2015-2017 Goldsmiths University of London – BFA 1st Class Honours
 

Lectures:
March 2022 ‘Behind the Cubes of Black and White: Aesthetics and Nationalism’ King's College London
March 2017 ‘Art of Protest’ Goldsmiths University of London

Interviews:

February 2021 ‘Not Forgotten’ by Sanjana James

October 2017 ‘Colours of Memory’ by Les Back

January 2018 ‘Remembering the New Cross Fire’ by Chris Smith

Awards:

2023, Arts Council England Project Grants

2023, Shortlist for the Fen Ditton Contemporary Printmaking Prize 

2021, The Fenton Arts Trust Grant

2020, Shortlisted Artist for the John Moore’s Painting Prize

2019, Aidan Threlfall Award

2017, Warden’s Prize – Goldsmiths University of London

2017, Goldsmith’s Excellence Fee Waiver – Goldsmiths University of London

Residencies:

November 2022 - January 2023, UnPack Studio, Havana, Cuba (Funded by the Aidan Threlfall Award)

Collections:

Purchased 2017 ‘Now and Then, Here and There’ University of Goldsmiths Private Collection

Commissions:

2022, King's College London, Public Commission for ‘White Spirit Was a Petrol Bomb; Three Studies for the Battle of Lewisham’, Painting

2020-2021, Sonia McKay, Private Commission ‘Al Extranjero’, Painting

2016, John Price, Public Commission for ‘Remembering the Battle of Lewisham’, Painting

Group Shows:

March 2023, Fen Ditton Contemporary Printmaking Prize, Cambridge

March 2022 ‘Nationalism [Aesthetics]’ London

June 2021 ‘London Art Biennial’ London

April 2021 ‘Fragments’ London

October 2018 ‘Toxic Legacies’ London

January 2017 ‘New Cross Frontline: Race and Class Revisited’ London 

October 2016 ‘Remembering the Battle of Lewisham’ London

Ella Jones (b.1994) is an artist and cultural practitioner. Her practice harnesses the dialectical nature of Cubism to explore the tensions and contradictions between race and class in South- East London, the community in which she grew up. Presenting these histories alongside those of Cubism, Ella highlights Cubism’s own relationship with Colonialism, moving back and forth between history and the present, the centre and the periphery, challenging the Cubist form whilst pushing it to represent more.
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