Details

First Name	Kerry
Last Name	Jones
Username	kerryjones
Website	http://www.kezzajones.co.uk
Region	Scottish Borders
Disciplines	Film, Installation, Moving Image, Sound
Themes	Abstract, Environment, Landscape, Site-specific, Political

Statement

Kerry Jones is a multi – media artist based in Scotland whose practice incorporates film; sound; archive; manipulated still images and site-specific interactions. Jones is a curator, project manager and educator with a passion for creative investigation, experimentation and community engagement with a portfolio of curated exhibitions, film screenings, events and community projects.

I make short films using my own and found hoarded audio visual footage.
I manually and digitally manipulate images and sound into multi media situations.
My work is non linear and often looped.
I gather and get lost in words.
I use sound in rhythmic alliance with the image.
I am influenced by Dada , Surrealism and Situationism.
My work has been called glitchy.
Everyday objects interest me especially cardboard and plastic containers.
I reuse materials, always looking for a frame in the everyday.
Liminal portals and haptic visuality interest me.
Working collaboratively and experimentally is vital.
I am 54.

Biography

FILM SCREENINGS
2020
The Stove Network, Dumfries
Turn it Off & Blue Book
14 February, 2019
Part of On the Move curated by MIMC

SSA|VAS Open Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy,
Edinburgh
Turn it Off
22 December 2019 – 30 January 2020
Curated by CutLog Artists Moving Image

2019
CCA, Glasgow
Turn it Off & Blue Book
7 December, 2019
Part of On the Move curated by MIMC

Filmhuis Cavia, Amsterdam
Turn it Off & Blue Book
6 December, 2019
Part of On the Move curated by MIMC

Pix Film Gallery, Toronto
Turn it Off & Blue Book
15 November, 2019
Part of On the Move curated by MIMC
Hosted by Stephen Broomer and AdHoc screening
collective.

Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle
Turn it Off & Blue Book
4 October, 2019
Part of On the Move curated by MIMC

Supernormal Festival, Braziers Park
Turn it Off & Blue Book
2 – 4 August, 2019
Part of On the Move curated by MIMC

Borders Book Festival, Melrose
Turn it Off & Blue Book
13 – 16 June, 2019
Part of On the Move curated by MIMC

Braziers Mini Indi Film Festival, Braziers Park,
Oxfordshire
Blue Book
24-27 May, 2019

Duns PlayFest, Duns
Turn it Off & Blue Book
2 – 9 May, 2019
Part of On the Move curated by MIMC

Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick
Turn it Off & Blue Book
2 – 6 May, 2019
Part of On the Move curated by MIMC

MOVING IMAGE INSTALLATIONS
2021
Lost property Office, Dumfries High Street,
Lost Property Collective.
Commissioned suitcases.
August .

Conversations With a Forest
Ruberslaw Woods, Hawick
Found Somewhere. Everywhere. Anywhere
16 – 19 September

Sanctuary Lab, Galloway Forest Park,
Dumfries & Galloway.
Somewhere. Anywhere. Everywhere.
26 September

2017

Alchemy Film & Arts Space, Hawick.
Nobody Speak (Digital Twitch)
1 – 16 December

Fans,Vampires, Trolls, Masters. Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh.
Nobody Speak ( Digital Twitch)
27 May – 3 June

2017
Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
There’s Always Something
June 2017

2016
Beyond the Shutter, The Haining,
Selkirk.
Some Room
Yarrow Ettrick Selkirk Arts Festival.

The Heritage Hub, Hawick
Uchronia
(Commission for Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival).

SOUND WORKS
2016
Sanctuary Art Lab, Dumfries.
Digital Decontamination Portal.
September 2016
Digital Decontamination Sound piece for Collective Nonsense.

The Heritage Hub, Hawick
Archived I’ve
May 2016
Commissioned by Scottish Borders Council
FILM BASED COORDINATOR ROLES

2020
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick
Festival programmer
2015 – present

2019
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick
Festival Producer
January – June 2019

Films For Change, Scottish Borders.
Curator and Film programmer
June 2019 – present

2018
Alchemy Film & Arts, Hawick
Assistant Alchemy Film & Arts Residency ,
Morocco
October – November 2018

2017 /18
Alchemy Film & Arts, Hawick
Youth Engagement Project Manager.

AWARDS
2021
The Teviot,The Flag & The Rich, Rich Soil.
Artist Bursary.
Alchemy Film & Arts.

2016
Nominated for the Margaret Tait Award.

2014/15
South of Scotland Visual Arts Award

EDUCATION
2017
M.A. (Merit) Contemporary Art Practice.
Edinburgh College of Art