Richard John Jones

Richard John Jones was born in Chesterfield, North East Derbyshire in 1986. He has been based in London since 2004 after graduating from Central Saint Martins. He has been a core participant at the Unitednationsplaza 'exhibition as school' project in Mexico City and his work as an artist has been shown at institutions such as The Power Plant in Toronto and the Centro Cultural Sao Paulo. He works independently as an artist and also at the commissioning organisation Auto Italia. He specialises in moving image work and documentary and is currently developing a body of research on the archive as a site for cultural production through the social, political and economic framing of unstable identities.

Richard blogs all of his projects on richardjohnjones.blogspot.com