Lucia Jones

Lucia Jones is an award-winning Welsh painter. Since graduating from Falmouth University, she has exhibited internationally in both solo and group exhibitions. Jones has been long and shortlisted for numerous prestigious prizes, including the John Moores Painting Prize (2020), the BEEP Painting Prize (2018 and 2024), the National Eisteddfod of Wales (2025), and the Jackson’s Art Prize (2022 and 2023). In 2025 she was the recipient of the Wakelin Award, marking her first acquisition into a public collection; her work is now held in the permanent collection of the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, UK. Her work is also held in private collections across Australia, Austria, Hong Kong, Mexico, the UK, and the USA.

Jones’ practice explores memory and self-perception through the constructs of paint and film. Focusing on the female psyche in painted space, she draws inspiration from 50s-90s b-movies, art history, and her own photographs, recontextualising women as anonymised subjects within fractured and fabricated environments. These painted scenes act as cyphers for lived experience, to be glimpsed and examined. Her recent works explore societal expectations placed on women and the performative nature of femininity, depicting figures in liminal spaces that blur the boundaries between the real and imagined, the revealed and concealed. They inhabit the tension between societal constraints and personal autonomy.