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Professor Christopher Jones

  • Professor, Newcastle University
  • Artist

Christopher Jones is an artist and a Professor of Fine Art at Newcastle University. He has exhibited widely in solo and group exhibitions in the UK and beyond, including in Australia, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea, Norway and Slovakia. Between 1987-89 he was a Monbushō Research Scholar at Kyoto City University of Arts and in recent years he has returned to Japan to carry out two artist-residency projects: examining themes of recollection in relation to place in Trace-Retrace for Kyoto Art Centre, 2006 and site-specificity in For the Silo, at Studio Kura, Fukuoka in 2013.