Lifters and Leaners
My drawing practice is based on the media for stimulus and effect. Without media coverage, comment and analysis I wouldn’t make the art I make. The major themes in my drawing: War, Globalisation, Politics, The Environment are all themes which dramatically rehearse the basic question of human justice and injustice. My connection to these themes occurs through the mediums of television, Internet, radio and newspapers.
These themes and my engagement with them through media has been the bedrock of my practice over the past decade
As an artist I intentionally leave myself open to a wide range of influences. Though focussed on the specific themes of War, power and globalisation. I am committed in my work to a process of accumulation; this accumulation of words and imagery has been stored and catalogued in folders through scanning news stories on the Internet and various international publications and journals. Part of my working day studio methodology is to read the latest news stories and there associated photographic imagery and to cut out the images that most excite or disturb me and then by drawing them, re-process their meaning and content sometimes turning them into dis-information, skewering there meaning, making them ambiguous perhaps. I like to draw from monochrome photographs and render them in black ink so they retain a graphic searing quality. At other times I draw straight from the computer screen or from photographs in books.
At times the drawing process becomes a stream of consciousness. For example I will be listening to The Religion Report on radio National and write or draw stories and headlines in a random way piling them onto the page. Because of the way I work, on horizontal rolls of paper, the images become ‘grabs of information’ or re-processed imagery that act as diarist chronicles of world news. These chronicles are imbued with my emotional and psychological thoughts, therefore creating a more directly human aspect to the completed drawing.
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Locust JonesLose Control, 2013ink on paper130 x 205 cm (paper size)Sold
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Locust JonesCrossing the Line, 2013ink on paper124 x 500 cm (paper size)AU$ 9,400.00
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Locust JonesSharks and Wolves, 2013graphite & charcoal on paper153 x 321 cm (paper size)AU$ 7,300.00
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Locust JonesI don’t know, 2014ink on paper153 x 220 cm (paper size)AU$ 6,000.00
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Locust JonesLA Times, 2014ink on paper66 x 102 cm (paper size)AU$ 2,500.00
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Locust JonesEverywhere Nowhere, 2014ink on paper66 x 102 cm (paper size)AU$ 2,500.00
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Locust JonesThe Guardian Weekly, 2014ink on paper66 x 102 cm (paper size)AU$ 2,500.00
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Locust JonesThe Lemon Reamer I, 2014ink on paper102 x 66 cm (paper size)
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Locust JonesThe Lemon Reamer II, 2014ink on paper102 x 66 cm (paper size)AU$ 2,500.00
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Locust JonesThe Lemon Reamer III, 2014ink on paper102 x 66 cm (paper size)AU$ 2,500.00
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Locust JonesHiikmiss Harten-Stein, 2014ink on paper4 panel: 76 x 224 cm (overall size)AU$ 4,500.00
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Locust JonesVlad & Me, 2014ink on paper76 x 56 cm (paper size)AU$ 1,900.00
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Locust JonesMental Man, 2014ink on paperdiptych: 76 x 112 cm (overall size)
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Locust JonesNews of the World I, 2014ink on paper67 x 50 cm (paper size)AU$ 1,800.00
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Locust JonesNews of the World II, 2014ink on paper67 x 50 cm (paper size)AU$ 1,800.00
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Locust JonesNews of the World III, 2014ink on paper67 x 50 cm (paper size)AU$ 1,800.00
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Locust JonesNews of the World IV, 2014ink on paper67 x 50 cm (paper size)AU$ 1,800.00
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Locust JonesNews of the World V, 2014ink on paper67 x 50 cm (paper size)AU$ 1,800.00
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Locust JonesBlack Box I, 2014dry glazed ceramic24 x 22 x 22 cmSold
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Locust JonesBlack Box II, 2014dry glazed ceramic26 x 19 x 19 cmAU$ 950.00
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Locust JonesBlack Box III, 2014dry glazed ceramic27 x 19 x 19 cmAU$ 950.00
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Locust JonesBlack Box IV, 2014dry glazed ceramic28 x 18 x 18 cmSold
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Locust JonesBlack Box V, 2014dry glazed ceramic25 x 20 x 20 cmSold
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Locust JonesBlack Box VI, 2014dry glazed ceramic23 x 21 x 21 cmAU$ 950.00
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Locust JonesBlack Box VII, 2014dry glazed ceramic25 x 19 x 19 cmAU$ 950.00
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Locust JonesLifters & Leaners I, 2014dry glazed ceramic10 x 20 x 8 cmAU$ 700.00
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Locust JonesLifters & Leaners II, 2014dry glazed ceramic9 x 20 x 9 cmAU$ 700.00
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Locust JonesLifters & Leaners III, 2014dry glazed ceramic6.5 x 20.5 x 9 cmAU$ 700.00
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Locust JonesLifters & Leaners IV, 2014dry glazed ceramic7 x 20 x 9 cmAU$ 700.00
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Locust JonesLifters & Leaners V, 2014spanish black clay & tangerine orange glaze10 x 21 x 10 cmAU$ 700.00
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Locust JonesLifters & Leaners VI, 2014spanish black clay & tangerine orange glaze10 x 20 x 9 cmAU$ 700.00
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Locust JonesMoz I, 2014spanish black clay & tangerine orange glazedimensions variable: 57 x 13 x 13 cm, 53 x 14 x 12 cm, 38 x 15 x 15 cmAU$ 2,500.00
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Locust JonesMoz II, 2014spanish black clay & tangerine orange glazedimensions variable: 60 x 18 x 11 cm, 50 x 16 x 11 cmAU$ 1,800.00