About

  • Roisin Jones (b. London, UK) is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video, installation, photography, sculpture, and archival research. Her...
    Photo: Gregor Petrikovič
    Roisin Jones (b. London, UK)  is an interdisciplinary artist working across performance, video, installation, photography, sculpture, and archival research. Her practice explores how the body and memory function as living archives, preserving personal and collective histories. By examining cycles of care, transformation, and resilience, Jones’s work reflects on identity, belonging, and cultural memory. Through this exploration, she seeks to offer pathways for connection while confronting displacement and healing within communities. Embracing love as a radical act of resistance and restoration, she crafts narratives that invite audiences to engage with vulnerability, empathy, and hope.

     

    Rooted in her British-Caribbean heritage and experiences within the diaspora, Jones’s work navigates the fluidity of identity and belonging. She weaves together folklore, symbolism, spirituality, and storytelling, using her art as a medium to honor the complexity of cultural identity. By drawing from ancestral memory and mythological motifs, she creates immersive worlds that bridge personal narratives with collective histories, celebrating the transformative power of storytelling.

     

    Through a nuanced blend of personal narrative and historical context, Jones creates layered, multidimensional works that challenge conventional storytelling. Her practice is deeply informed by archival research, material experimentation, and performance, allowing her to explore the intersections of identity, memory, and transformation.


  • CV

    B. London. Lives and Works in London, UK

    Education

     

    2025

    PhD Candidate in Research, UAL, London, UK

    2023-24

    Masters of Research (MRes), Royal College of Art, London, UK

    2022-23
    Master of Art (MA) in Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art, London, UK
    2022
    Graduate Diploma in Art and Design, Royal College of Art, London, UK
    2013-16

    BA/BSC – Media, Culture and Identity with  Film, University of Roehampton, UK, University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA

  • Solo Exhibitions

    2023
    Ode to Temperance, MEADOW GALLERY Enclave Project, London, UK
     

    Temple of the Spider, MA Graduate Show, Royal college of Art, London, UK

    2022
    Resilience, Noho studios London, London, UK

  • Group Exhibitions

     

    2025
    Island in the City, with Gallery OCA, at Royal-Over-Seas League, London, UK

    Bound Waters - Confluence, duo show with Richard Nattoo, Olympia Mini Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica

    The Alchemy of Colour and Matter, with 1897 at ADA Gallery, Accra, Ghana
    2024
    Winter Show 2024, Orleans House, London, UK

    Zari Art Prize Group Exhibition, Zari Gallery, London, UK

    Freedom in Multitudes, 1897 Gallery, London, UK
     
    Research Journeys, MRes Group show, Royal College of Art Battersea, London, UK
    What No Fear Looks Like, Shoreditch Arts Club, London, UK
    2023
    Minor Attractions, Cornershop/ STUDIOCHAPPLE London UK (Frieze Week)
    OlympArts Online Exhibition, (Competition)
    2022
    Cast a Shadow, Safehouse, London UK
  • Art Fairs
    2025
    1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, with 1897 Gallery, London, UK

  • Performances and Screenings 

    2025

    Bound Waters - Confluence, Olympia Gallery, Kingston, Jamaica

    2023
    CHORUS, Ode to Temperance, MEADOW Gallery, London, UK
    Recombinator, Staffordshire St, London UK
    Beyond Surface - Tactile Presence, TATE Lates, Tate Modern, London UK
    NO SOLID GROUND, CAP CINEMA, at Princes Charles Theatre, London UK

  • Prize and Grants

    2025

    Eaton Fund

    2024
    HIGH Prize for creative excellence
    2022
    Project Grant, Stanhill Foundation
    2021
    Project Grant, Stanhill Foundation