Gwilym Pearce Jones
Degree: Fine Art Practice
University: Carmarthen School of Art
Graduation Year: 2024
New Blood Art Commentary
Gwilym Pearce Jones is a contemporary artist who creates multimedia collages that recontextualize narratives. Though raised without a religious upbringing, Jones explores themes of beauty and exclusion, both personal as a gay individual and on a broader global scale, in their work.
Jones' collages combine elements from the past and present, incorporating components from video games like The Sims along with figures from historical artworks to create new narratives. The artist's process involves recontextualizing these elements to explore the timeless nature of division in society despite societal changes over time. Jones discovered a renewed love for storytelling through this multimedia collage approach.
The artworks invite viewers to interpret and reimagine the recontextualized narratives as new mythologies. Jones leaves the meanings within the painted worlds open for audiences to explore.
Artist Statement
Growing up without religious upbringing, I still felt its presence. I juxtapose its beauty with a tragic sense of exclusion, both personally as a gay man and also globally. My work is a collage made from the past and present, recontextualising its narratives by mixing video games like The Sims with figures taken from historical artworks. They also stumbled upon the timeless nature of division despite the drastic changes in our society over the centuries, though I found a renaissance of my own for my love of story-telling through this medium. The questions that hold you inside the worlds I’ve painted are yours to ask freely. Let them exist as mythologies, let them be bastardised.
Group Exhibitions
(2024) Blaguro, Cardiff Made, Cardiff
(2024) Degree Show, Carmarthen School of Art, Carmarthen
(2023) Work in Progress, Unit 17, St. Catherine's Walk, Carmarthen
(2023) Artefact, The Corn Exchange Gallery, Cardigan
(2021) Art and Design Virtual Exhibition, Virtual Exhibition, Carmarthen School of Art
(2021) Rise Art Trail, N/A, Various Locations Across South Wales
(2021) Art Protest, N/A, St. Catherine's Walk, Carmarthen
Competitions, Prizes & Awards
(2024) New Blood Art Emerging Art Prize 2024