Welcome to the world of Gabrielle Jones!

GabrielleJones is an abstract artist who creates large scaled paintings, intimate sculptures, installations and delicate three-dimensional paper assemblages in her purpose-built, light-filled studio on the beautiful Sunshine Coast (Noosa Hinterland), Queensland.

No matter the medium, the work responds to a life-long fascination with the tug-of-war between balance and excess, structure and chaos, control and surrender, abstraction and recognition. This obsession stretches back to the artist’s Catholic Primary School, where she talks of being both fascinated and horrified by the Baroque images displayed on Holy Cards that were given out by nuns as rewards for achievement. Those little cards depicted theatrical human emotion, wild and dramatic, which, when juxtaposed against the situation of rigid, dogmatic boundaries laid by the school, set up an early psychological friction that remains today.

Gabrielle’s work pits grids and symbols for systems of manipulation and control against fluid, messy and deeply instinctive human gestures, brushstrokes and feminine patterns. It seeks to disrupt expectations.

Each painting is built through an accumulation of paint and translucent veils of colour in layers, allowing the history of the making to be read like an archaeological site. Every decision, mistake or breakthrough, is trapped in the fabric. These complex surfaces react to natural daylight, emotionally engulfing the space they occupy, providing an endlessly engaging, continuous conversation for a collector that never gets boring.

Jone’s work covers over 25 years and 26 solo exhibitions across Australia, seeing her work exhibited in New York, Rome and broader Italy. Career highlights include winning the inaugural University of Southern Queensland $30,000 prize for contemporary art; having her painting selected for the cover image of Thames & Hudson’s international book, “Abstraction” by Amber Creswell-Bell; and serving as official Drawing Instructor for the Sydney Biennale in 2011.

Her current series responds to the rapid growth of Artificial intelligence in our undeniably momentous age. New work from the series will be exhibited at Noosa Regional Gallery from February to April, 2027.