Katherine Jones is a contemporary British artist who combines painting and traditional printmaking techniques, bringing together disparate narratives in hyper-real or folkloric spaces. Perceptions of safety and danger are often presented using archetypal motifs such as a house, flower, sun or tree.
Jones is currently a visiting lecturer in Fine Art Printmaking at universities and colleges across the United Kingdom and Europe.
She was elected as a Royal Academician in 2022. Public collections include the V&A Prints And Drawings Collection, The Ashmolean Museum, Yale University Library and The House Of Lords.
2022 Elected Royal Academician
2019 Shortlisted for the Dentons Art Prize, Denton’s Law, London
2014 London Original Print Fair Prize and Printmaking Today Prize
2013 Finalist – Arts Foundation Fellowship Award in Printmaking and Printmaker of the Year, Printfest Residency, Cumbria
2012 Guangdong Museum Purchase Prize, Qijiang, China
2010 Birgit Skiold Memorial Trust Award for Excellence V&A Purchase Prize
2009 International Print Biennale Solution Group Prize, The London Print Studio Award, Pushing Print Award, East London Printmakers Great Art Prize, Intaglio Printmaker Award, The T N Lawrence and Son Print Prize
2007 Julian Trevelyan Memorial Award for Printmaking, St Cuthbert’s Mill Award for Watercolour
2006 Stoke Roberts Bursary Award
2003 Edward Ardizzonie Award, Artichoke Studio Award for Lithography
2023 and in 2011 Residency at Kloster Bentlage, Rheine, Germany
2022 Artist in Residence St Paul's Girls School, London
2018 Artist in residence, Sevenoaks School, Kent
2016-17 Artist in residence, Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire
2015 Residency at Eton College, Windsor
2014 Residency at Winchester College
2013 Printfest Residency, Cumbria
2007-10 Research Fellowship, City and Guilds of London Art School, London
2009 Artist of the season, ‘Twenty8Twelve’, London
2005 Intaglio Printmaker Residency
V&A National Art Library, UK
Lafayette College, USA
V&A Prints and Drawings Collection, UK
Yale University Library, CT, USABoston Athenaeum, USA
University College London, Hospitals Art Collection, UK
Wellesley Library, USA
Guangdong Museum, China
House of Lords, Government Art Collection, UK
Swarthmore College, PA, USA
Ashmolean Museum, UK
Saison Poetry Library, Royal Festival Hall, UK
Winchester College, UK
Swindon Museum and Gallery, UK
Eton College, UK
University of Chichester, Otter Collection UK
Royal West of England Academy, Bristol UK
Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
University of Warwick Art Collection
2023
The Real Sunshine of Feeling, Rabley Gallery at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, UK
2022
Taper to Green, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Artist in focus, Rabley Drawing Centre, Marlborough, Wiltshire, UK
2021
The Iron in the Earth, Rabley Gallery and Drawing Centre, Wiltshire, UK and Brixton Library, Brixton, London UK
2020
We Grew The Long Bones, Eton College, Windsor, UK and Jeannie Avent Gallery, London
2018
The Precious Hours, Rabley Drawing Centre, Wiltshire, UK
2017
Recent Prints and Paintings, Zillah Bell Gallery, N Yorkshire
2015
Cover and Keep Safe, Rabley Contemporary, Marlborough, Wiltshire
Looking In, Foundry Gallery, Chelsea, London
2011
Bubble High, Royal Festival Hall, London
The Vanishing Land and Other Stories, Printroom, London
Munsterland Festival, Kunsthause, Bocholt, Germany
2010
Inside is Dry Land, Jaggedart 27 Devonshire St, London
Light House, New Hall College, Cambridge
2009
Artist of the Season, Autumn Winter Exhibition, Twenty8Twelve, London
2024
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Permission to Touch, curated by The Dot Project, 14 Cavendish Sq, London
Almost Blue, curated by Oliver Projects, RWS Gallery, Whitcombe St, London
A Curious Cloud, Soho Revue Gallery, 14 Greek St, Soho, London
Stilleben, Galleri Ismene, Trondheim, Norway,
London Original Print Fair with Rabley Gallery, Somerset House, London
Drop Shadows, two person show with Temsuyanger Longkumer at Sims Reed Gallery, London
Portland Fine Art Print Fair with Aspinwall Editions. Portland Oregon, USA
London Art Fair with Rabley Gallery, London
2023
Kloster Bentlage Residency Exhibition with Adam Bridgland, Rheine, Germany
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
In My Hand A Forest Lies Asleep, curated by The Violet Hour, St Lukes Mews, London
Life in the Forest, Galleri Ismene, Trondheim, Norway
Baltimore Print Fair with Aspinwall Editions, Baltimore, USA
London Art Fair with Rabley Gallery, Islington, London, UK
London Original Print Fair, Somerset House, London, UK
2022
Hockney to Himid: 60 Years of British Printmaking, Pallant House Gallery, UK
L2O22NDON, Galleri Ismene, Trondheim, Norway
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Winter Exhibition, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden UK
Pageant, curated by The Violet Hour at Abbott and Holder, London UK
40th Aniversary Exhibition, Galleri Ismene, Trondheim, Norway
2021
IFPDA Fall Print Fair with Rabley Gallery
Woolwich Print Fair with Rabley Gallery
Impact 11 International Printmaking Conference, Hong Kong
Green Fires online group exhibition curated by The Violet Hour
Zeitgeber, group exhibition at Art Noble, Milan, Italy
Connections, St Judes at the Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
London Original Print Fair online with Rabley Gallery
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
E/AB Art Fair with Aspinwall Editions, New York
Art Inspires Art, artists from the Eton College residency, Bankside Gallery
2020
The Faraway Nearby, Rabley Gallery, Wiltshire,
The London Original Print Fair online with Rabley Gallery,
IFPDA Print Fair online with Rabley Gallery,
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London,
Woolwich Original Print Fair, online
2019
Woolwich Original Print Fair, Royal Arsenal, Woolwich
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
London Original Print Fair with Rabley Contemporary, Royal Academy London
Always Sunday House with Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair editions, Bath
London Art Fair with Rabley Contemporary
Dentons Art Prize, Denton’s Law, London
On Paper, Campden Gallery, Chipping Campden
Artist’s Sketchbooks, Marlborough College Wiltshire
2018
Print Rebels Hayden, Whistler, Palmer and the origins of the RE, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
The Thin House , Choumert Road, London
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Contemporary, Royal Academy of Arts, London
9 Artists Peckham, curated by Katherine Oliver, Peckham, London
Cultivating Landscape, Printroom Studio, Suffolk
Sawdust and Sequins: The Art of the Circus RWEA, Bristol
Paper, Swindon Museum and Art Gallery, Swindon
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition RA250, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Prized: A celebration of International Print Biennales through the work and words of winning artists Northern Print, Newcastle-Upon Tyne
Estampes+ Galerie Grand E’terna, Paris
2017
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Contemporary, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Glow, Northern Print, Newcastle-Upon Tyne
Dialogue in Yinchuan, Yinchuan Museum of Contemporary Art, China
The Original Print Show, Prints from the RA, Zillah Bell Gallery, N Yorkshire
The Jiangsu Dialogue, Bankside Gallery, Southbank, London
2016
Ink Miami, IFPDA, Rabley Contemporary, Miami, USA
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Contemporary, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Art of the Print, Highpoint Centre for Printmaking, USA
The Masters Etching, Bankside Gallery, London
The Terrarium Drawn, Jaggedart, London
Reading with the Senses, Lunder Art’s Centre, MA USA
2015
Painter Printmakers Keeper’s House, Royal Academy of Arts, London
London Original Print Fair, Rabley Contemporary, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Xenotopia, Gibbard Gallery, Harlow, Essex
2014
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Glossary: How and Why Artists Make Prints, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
London Original Print Fair with Pauper’s Press, Royal Academy of Arts, London
De Queeste Art, Abele, Belgium
2013
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Multiplied with Pauper’s Press, Christies, London
Impressit, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston
London Art Book Fair with KALEID editions, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2012
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Prints Tokyo Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Japan
6th International Kyoto Hanga, Kyoto Municipal Museum, Japan
London Art Book Fair with KALEID editions, Whitechapel Gallery, London
2011 London Art Book Fair with KALEID editions, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Qijiang International Print Festival, Qijiang, Chongquing, China
Dreams, Freud Museum, London
2010
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Wonderland, V&A Museum of Childhood, London
New York Art Book Fair with Kaleid Editions, MOMA, New York
2009
Prints, Bonhams, New Bond St, London
International Print Biennale, Northern Print, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Floating Odyssey, Book House Art Space, Seoul, South Korea, Live & Moris, Tokyo, Japan
Signature Works on Paper, William Morris Gallery, London
Contemporary Printmaking, Manifest Drawing Centre, Ohio USA
2008
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
Limerick Open, Limerick Printmakers Gallery, Limerick, Ireland
Home, book launch exhibition, Foyles Gallery, London
Scissors Paper Stone, London Print Studio, London
Mothers, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London
2007
Thin Skinned, Waterloo Gallery, London
Love Letter to London, City Hall South Bank, London
21st Century Watercolour, Bankside Gallery, London
2006
Honey Trap, Waterloo Gallery, London
Tales of the Decongested, anthology exhibition, Foyles Gallery, London
Travel in Print, Clifford Chance, Canary Warf, London
2005
Night on Earth, Oxford House, Derbyshire St, London
2004
Be My Baby, Waterloo Gallery, London
2001—2003 Camberwell College of Art, MA Fine Art Printmaking
1998—2001 Cambridge School of Art, BA (hons) Fine Art Printmaking
1997—1998 Herefordshire College of Art and Design, BTEC Foundation