Gina Jones is a New Zealand artist who graduated with an MFA from RMIT Melbourne in 2005. Her body of work since graduation focuses on color, light, and the perception of time using materials like laser-cut steel, glass, and corrugated iron. She aims to create a prolonged viewing experience that captures the illusion of depth and invites contemplation. Jones has exhibited widely in New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, and Germany, and has won several awards for her work.

1. Gina JonesArtist
E: gina@ginajones.co.nz W: www.ginajones.co.nz M: 021 456 088 P: P O Box 3591, Wellington 6140
The body of work that I have produced since my graduation in 2005 from RMIT
Melbourne (MFA) has been based on colour, light and the perception of time.
My architectural training and career has subconsciously directed me to use ma-
terials sympathetic to both architecture and the fine arts, materials such as laser
cut steel, glass or Perspex and even the New Zealand classic; corrugated iron. The
skill is to balance the coldness of these materials with the warm (and mesmeris-
ing) slowly changing light/colour.
As with the traditions of abstract painting, the foci of my work is on colour, time
and space, as I aim to create a protracted and more intense viewing experience.
I have consistently integrated 3D qualities into my work. The illusion of depth
captures the viewer and ultimately invites contemplation.
Qualifications
• MFA, RMIT 2005.
• BArch(1st Class Hons), VUW 1987.
• BBSc, VUW 1984.
Born
• Christchurch, NZ

2. Exhibitions/Awards:
2016 Divine Abstraction (curated by Dr Rachael Kohn) with
Peter Daverington, Peter Hickman, Colin Jordon, Gabri-
ella Possum Nungarrayi, Penelope Davis, Suzanne Moss,
Magda Cebokli, Ash Keating, Justin Andrews, Lucas
Davidson, Dinh Cong Dat, Gregory Bennet, Cather-
ine Nelson, Tim Maquire and Andre Piguet; Justin Art
House Museum Melbourne May - June 2016
2015 Winner Premier Award; Friends of Aratoi Art Award
30upstairs, Light; Works in association with, 30 Upstairs,
Wellington
Group Exhibition; Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2014 Finalist; Wallace Art Award Finalist, Auckland
Perceptions of Space: Justin Collection; Group Exhibi-
tion, Glen Eira City Gallery, Melbourne
Southern Brights; Solo Exhibition, Cat Street Gallery,
Hong Kong
30upstairs, a Look Back; Group Exhibition, 30 Upstairs,
Wellington
2013 Gina Jones, 30 Upstairs, Wellington
Studio Raids; Group Exhibition, Sanderson Contempo-
rary Art Gallery, Auckland
Group Exhibition, Women in Architecture, Auckland
2012 Asia Contemporary Art Show; Group Exhibition, Cat St
Gallery Hong Kong
Finalist; Wallace Award Finalists
Ten Years; Group Exhibition, Sanderson Contemporary
Art Gallery, Auckland
In the Name of Love; Group Exhibition, Alexander Tut-
sek-Stiftung, Munich, Germany (extended to April 2013)
2011 Advent; Group Exhibition, Sanderson Contemporary
Art Gallery, Auckland
Locale; Group Exhibition, Sanderson Contemporary Art
Gallery, Auckland
Signal 8, Group Exhibition, Cat Street Gallery, Hong
Kong
Finalist and Merit Award; NZ Painting and Printmaking
Award, Hamilton
Auckland Art Fair, Sanderson Gallery
Finalist; Wallace Art Award Finalist, Auckland
2010 Southern Lights; Solo Exhibition, Cat Street Gallery,
Hong Kong
Black out; Solo Exhibition, Sanderson Contemporary Art
Gallery, Auckland
Home; Tim Rex Group Show, Artspost, Hamilton w
Hong Kong Art Fair (group exhibition with Cat Street
Gallery)
Bouncy; Group Show, Sanderson Contemporary Art
Gallery, Auckland
Finalist; NZ Painting and Printmaking Award, Hamilton
2009 Solo Exhibition; Aratoi, Wairarapa Museum of Art and
History, Masterton
Seen this Century; Judith Anderson Gallery (group show)
Light; Group Show, Milford Galleries
Auckland Art Fair, Sanderson Gallery
Scale, Sanderson Gallery (group show)
Furniture, Judith Anderson Gallery (group show)
2008 Wallace Award Finalists, Aotea Centre and The New
Dowse
Finalist (travelling show) Wallace Art Awards
Gina Jones, Page Blackie Gallery
Melbourne Art Fair (group exhibition with Page Blackie
Gallery)
2007 Gina Jones, Tinakori Gallery
Clean Machine, Group Exhibition, Gus Fisher Gallery
Sculpture, Group Show, Tinakori Gallery
Auckland Art Fair, Tinakori Gallery
2006 Tinakori Gallery, opening group exhibition
Melbourne Art Fair (group exhibition with Tinakori
Gallery)
Finalist Waikato Contemporary Art Award
Finalist Norsewear Art Award
2005 Light Perceptions, Wellington Art Centre Gallery
Group Exhibition (MFA Candidates), RMIT University,
Melbourne
Dark Room – Light Travels, Group Exhibition (Vivien
Atkinson, Helen Jones, Gina Jones), Faculty Gallery,
RMIT University, Melbourne
2004 Inverlochy 2004 Group End of Year Exhibition
Accent Architects Artists – World Architecture Day
2003 Creative Photography Exhibition, Group Exhibition,
Inverlochy Art School
Visions and Views, Group Exhibition, Inverlochy Art
School

3. Selected Articles and Essays:
• Open House Policy, Annemarie Kiely, Vogue Living, May June
2016.
• Justin Art House Museum review: Prahran architect’s home
an interactive, immersive domestic gallery space, The Sydney
Morning Herald, Robert Nelson, April 5, 2016.
• http://melbourneblogger.blogspot.co.nz/2016/02/justin-art-
house-museum-modern-art.html Justin Art House Museum:
modern art, private collection in Melbourne, 27 February 2016.
• http://www.domain.com.au/news/architect-charles-justin-is-
selling-his-caulfield-north-home-20150422-1mr24l/ Architect
Charles Justin is selling his Caulfield North home, Paul Best, 25
April 2015.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVqdaq83Yuk Gina
Jones Artist Talk, The Cat Street Gallery, 23 March 2014.
• Gina Jones Southern Brights, Exhibition Catalogue, https://
issuu.com/catstreetgallery/docs/gj_catalogue_pdf__final_is-
suu/1, The Cat Street Gallery, 2014.
• A Bright Idea, Capital. Nov 2013, Issue 6.
• The Artist – Gina Jones, NZ House and Garden, Warwick
Brown, August 2012 p 156.
• In the Name of Love, Eva-Maria Fahrner-Tutsek; Kerber Ver-
lag, Bielefeld, Leipzig, Berlin 2012, pp 56-57 and bio p 95.
• Gina Jones in The Artists – 21 Practitioners in New Zealand
Contemporary Art c. 2011 – 2013. Pp 76 - 81. Kylie Sander-
son, Tamara Darragh. (released August 2011).
• Seeing the Light. Joanna Trezise. Urbis. Issue 60. 2011. Pp
56 – 57.
• Home for the artist within. Ann Packer. Dominion Post. De-
sign. Saturday 20 February 2010.
• Illuminate: The Recent Work of Gina Jones. Joanna Trezise.
2010.
• ‘Collective intelligence’, Art News New Zealand, Spring 2010,
pg 17.
• Gina Jones in Seen this Century – 100 Contemporary New
Zealand Artists – A Collector’s Guide. 2009. Pp 200 – 203.
Warwick Brown. Random House International.
• Gina Jones in The Artists – 21 Practitioners in New Zealand
Contemporary Art c. 2009 – 2011. Pp 40 – 43. Kylie Sander-
son, Tamara Darragh and Kim Atherfold. Beatnik Publishing.
• Two Ziggurats in Wellington. John Daly-Peoples. The Nation-
al Business Review. 7 March 2008.
• Too Clever by Half. Douglas Crane. Salient. 14 July 2008.
• Gina Jones, Tinakori Gallery, Wellington. www.nzartmonthly.
co.nz. http://www.nzartmonthly.co.nz/tinakori_002.html.
Downloaded 27/09/08.
• The galleries: Remarkable riches in Auckland Shows. T J Mc-
Namara. NZ Herald. 9 August 2007.
• Gina Jones 2007. James Blackie.
Public Commissions
• 2012 Stage 1 Terrace Tunnel – part of the Rainbow Corridor,
15km SH1 art work (only coloured panels to tunnel executed).
Research
• An Investigation into Perceptions of Time; using Light and
Space. (MFA, RMIT 2005).