CAROLINE ARESKOG JONES

Delighted to be showing 'Relic of a Matriarch' as print installation for the 2024 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 

"Touching Visions :: Speculative Imaginaries" 

Article following presentation at IMPACT 12 International Printmaking Conference held at UWE, Bristol is now online and available to view

Link below

Delighted to have been awarded DYCP funding by Arts Council England to support research and development of a new body of works following a year working alongside the Cetacean Archive of the Natural History Museum, London by invitation of Principal Curator Richard Sabin. 

Delighted to have been asked to participate to 'The Flowing Image : The Ocean on Screen' Conference at Southampton University . Contributing 'Sounding Line' for a panel with 9 other moving image works and 'Full Fathom V' for a presentation on ideas around Sunken Cinema .

Very much looking forward to showing 'Sounding Line' and 'Float' as part of a group exhibition entitled 'Lifeboat' at APT Gallery, Deptford  - 

March 28th - April 7th 2024

Saturday 6th April :

'Fieldwork as Practice : A performance/A conversation'

Live sonic performance by Oskar Jones followed by conversation  with Richard Sabin, Principal Curator, Natural History Museum, London : Sophia Nicolov, Fellow in Environmental History, Natural History Museum, London : Oliver Beardon, Founder and Skipper for Sail Britain

Event is free but booking essential

Link below

Delighted to have enjoyed 3 week funded Residency at KKV Grafik Studio, Malmo, Sweden in association with Womens Studio Workshop, New York City. An opportunity to reconnect with working through the process of lithography in a dedicated print studio and develop material drawings as a new body of works

Following second application, I am delighted to have been awarded an 'a-n bursary' to facilitate ongoing research over the forthcoming period. 

I shall be updating new works developed in due course.

With thanks for continued support

Delighted to have been selected to join PADA residency in Lisbon, Portugal for 2023 

Due to personal circumstances I have had to postpone this opportunity and hope to be able to reapply for 2024

Delighted to have been invited to contribute towards the next 'millimetre' platform as part of Kingsgate Project Space : an ecology of curatorial practice, collision and reflection responding to Bruno Latour's 'Critical Zones' and Lovelock and Margulis' 'Gaia Theory', its recognition of small actions coalescing to form a wider, collaborative response.

Following live sonic responses onsite at FILET in November with composer/musician Oskar Jones , audio and visual capture are now available to view on you tube and bandcamp

Forthcoming solo show at FILET space curated with Jaimie George

Delighted that 'Landmark' has been selected for inclusion in the Printmakers Council Exhibition in Norwich.

landmark

etching and monoprint on zerkall

28 x 35 cm

unique print 2022

Delighted to have work 'Dead Pool' selected for inclusion in this annual print fair

Venue : The Fireworks Factory, Royal Arsenal, SE18 6HD

WCPF22 : 03 - 06 November 2022 

Delighted to have been asked to contribute works once again for this organisation raising funds for local environmental concerns

hope and sorrow

ink and collage 

18 x 20 

I am delighted to have been invited to contribute a presentation on the theme of my written piece 'touching visions: speculative imaginaries' to this International Print Symposium. 

Alongside the conversation I shall be showing works in a solo space entitled 'Patina of Govenance'

patina of governance

detail

etching, gouache, graphite on zerkall

100 x 50 cm

Working alongside International composer Francesca Lehohe and Director Joseph Lynch from Babel Theatre Company a forthcoming workshop of collaborative exploration to discover places of overlap between artistic practices of music: theatrical practice: movement and printed matter. 

I am delighted to be spending 2 weeks in this unique environment to research and make new work

I am very much looking forward to taking up a place with the Joya : Artist in Residence Scheme.

“Joya: AiR is a not for profit arts residency based in Andalucia, Spain which has been developed by artists for artists of every conceivable discipline.  Joya: AiR not only a unique, stimulating and contemplative environment for international artists and writers, but a meeting point for divergent and creative thinking. This is a multi-disciplinary residency, self determined, critical and profoundly engaging.”

Delighted to have artwork chosen for the debut EP of Oskar Jones entitled 'The boughs of a soul'. Featuring 5 original tracks of improvisational piano music by this talented emerging musician/composer.

Short article published in Venti Journal responding to the question : 'How do we feel the air? How does the air feel us?'

Click on link to read 

Very grateful for Ben Luke, art critic with both Art Newspaper and Evening Standard for selecting 'Cascade' amongst his top pick prints from Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021. 

cascade

etching and gouache on blue paper

Delighted that 'Sounding Line' has been selected for inclusion in the exhibition 'World of Light' organised and based at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand.  

I was due to give an 'artist talk' about the work as part of the symposium in November but due to Covid the event in its entirity has been postponed until 2022.

Delighted to have 3 works accepted for inclusion in this annual print fair

nobody

etching and gouache on Zerkall : unique print

20 x 30 cm

Following postponement due to Covid19 I was finally able to participate in the Interdisciplinary Artist Residency at Hospitalfield, Arbroath.

Printmakers Council invited me to write an overview of the experience , now available to view online - see link below

Delighted that 'Sounding Line' has been selected for inclusion in the forthcoming film festival to be screened in November at Kulturhuset Islands Brygge, Copenhagen, Denmark.

A number of works from 'Discovery of Honey' have been selected for inclusion in 'Nature Inspired' an online exhibiton with Through Objects

Delighted to have work included in this annual print exhibition

forecast

lithograph and pen on shoji paper : unique print

21 x 30 cm

Participation in online exhibition 'Natural World' with Printmakers Council

wadi

suminagashi and monoprint on distressed shoji

50 x 50 cm furled : 150 x 50 cm unfurled

For this revised version of 'Spiritual Exercises' curated by Mark Dean, artists were invited to collaborate as a form of conversation.

Working with artist Maria Chevska a series of collaborative drawings evolved in response to our online conversations.

Delighted that 'Sounding Line' has been officially selected to be included in the Montreal Independent Short Film Festival 2021, being included in the monthly newsletter within the experimental environmental film category.