Tracey Jones: Statement

Tracey Jones is a Sydney-based painter working in the realist tradition. Through the lens of affect theory, she considers the relationship between objects and meaning, using culturally familiar objects, often imbued with familial and personal significance, to explore themes of memory, belonging, and absence. Connection and memory are at the centre of her practice.

Creating compositions from her collected personal objects, Jones employs the historical genre of still-life painting to interpret her recollections, both real and imagined, into pictorial translations that make the intangible, tangible.

Jones’s choice of subject matter, composition and colour are  highly intentional. Her detailed, often closely cropped paintings sometimes straddle the threshold between realism and abstraction. Existing in the space between memory and reality, they create a tension between the visible and the non-visible.