Chris Lewis Jones
Is an artist who works in a psych-geographical context in relation to his work.
His works normally start with drawings. He classes this as one of his foundations towards starting pieces of work. He works with the arts through education and performance expressing context through various mediums such as photography
installation and live performance art.
As an artist, he carries his sketch pad everywhere taking rubbings of buildings. An eccentric character, he became inspired by his father who lives within his art, often going to exhibitions dressed as art.
Developing a portfolio of work, he worked in various environments and with different types of people .
Within these images we are looking at Britishness in various ways. The image with the sheep appears to celebrate the good life, countryside, grass, the great natural spaces, untouched and preserved, open to everybody . The image with the plants and scribbles gives a feeling of a British rebellion, a new world emerging from a time of punk a reggae in the late 70s. The welcome Mat plays on is the narrative of people not feeling welcome with cagedlike bars placed over the Mat giving a feeling of being free but caged in a world, unwelcome. These images really embody a psychogeography context of space in relation to the piece and the objects in the space. This is something that interested me as I have an interest in connecting the dots with human relationships and objects .
Green & Pleasant Land 2007 Chris Lewis Jones
Patriotic Pants,North & South. 2007 Chris Lewis Jones
