Lucy Jones (born 1955) is a British painter and printmaker. She was born with

cerebral palsy Cerebral palsy (CP) is a group of movement disorders that appear in early childhood. Signs and symptoms vary among people and over time, but include poor coordination, spasticity, stiff muscles, Paresis, weak muscles, and tremors. There may b ...

. Jones is from London and lives in

Ludlow Ludlow ( ) is a market town and civil parish in Shropshire (district), Shropshire, England. It is located south of Shrewsbury and north of Hereford, on the A49 road (Great Britain), A49 road which bypasses the town. The town is near the conf ...

, Shropshire.

Career

Jones was educated at the King Alfred School, London and studied at the

Byam Shaw School of Art The Byam Shaw School of Art, often known simply as Byam Shaw, was an independent art school in London, England, which specialised in fine art and offered foundation and degree level courses. It was founded in 1910 by Byam Shaw, John Liston Bya ...

between 1975 and 1977. From 1976 to 1979 Jones studied at the

Camberwell School of Art Camberwell College of Arts is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, a public art and design university in London, England. The college offers further and higher education programmes, including postgraduate and PhD awards. ...

and then at the Royal College of Arts from 1979 until 1982. In 1982 she won the Prix de Rome prize which allowed her to study at the British School in Rome for two years. Jones had her first solo exhibition, at the Flowers Gallery, in 1987. She has exhibited her work extensively in the UK and abroad, including exhibitions at the Attenborough Arts Centre in Leicester in 2019 and at the

Christ Church, Oxford Christ Church (, the temple or house, ''wikt:aedes, ædes'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by Henry V ...

Picture Gallery in 2021. Her work is in many public and private collections including the

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an Encyclopedic museum, encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the List of largest museums, third-largest museum in the world and the List of larg ...

in New York and the

National Portrait Gallery National Portrait Gallery may refer to: * National Portrait Gallery (Australia), in Canberra * National Portrait Gallery (Sweden), in Mariefred *National Portrait Gallery (United States), in Washington, D.C. *National Portrait Gallery, London ...

in London. Her self-portrait ''Being 66'' won the Ruth Borchard self-portraiture prize in 2021.Lucy Jones Being 66
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References

External links

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Lucy Jones website
1955 births Living people British artists with disabilities English women artists Artists from London People with cerebral palsy Alumni of the Byam Shaw School of Art Alumni of the Royal College of Art Alumni of Camberwell College of Arts People educated at King Alfred School, London 20th-century British painters 20th-century British printmakers 21st-century British women painters British women printmakers 20th-century British women painters {{UK-artist-stub