Tony Jones
Tony Jones is a Western Australian artist whose career spans more than five decades and includes 20 solo exhibitions, over 100 group exhibitions and more than 60 public art commissions. His paintings, drawings and sculptures feature the key motifs of boat hulls and sail shapes, flags and human figures and represent humanity and its fates.
Jones is most widely known for his public artworks that represent aspects of local history, including Eliza which stands in the Swan River at the site of the Crawley Baths (now demolished) and of C. Y. O’Connor, in the water at Coogee Beach.
Jones has played a key role in educating a generation of Western Australian artists and in establishing and governing some of the State’s most significant independent arts initiatives and organisations, including Praxis Inc., Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, the “Basel Residency” and Sculpture at Bathers.
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