Lucia Jones is a Welsh painter and 2025 Wakelin Award recipient. Since graduating from Falmouth University she has exhibited internationally in solo and group shows including BEEP 2018/24, and she has been longlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize(2020). Her work is held in private and public collections.
Jones explores memory and female experience through paint, drawing on B-movies from the 1950s–1990s, art history, and her own photographs to recontextualise women as anonymised subjects within fractured, fabricated environments. Painting is a process of recollection and reframing — an act of dismantling and re-assemblage, of history and image, of personal and collective memory, through the female gaze. Each composition begins as a digital collage, drawn, cut in vinyl, and then painted element by element. Through what is included and omitted, the work interrogates how female identity is constructed and negotiated: the stereotypes and tropes imposed on women, and how those are internalised and resisted. The paintings are ciphers for lived experience — to be glimpsed and examined, inhabiting the tension between societal constraint and personal autonomy.
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