IONA JONES
Iona Jones is a Glasgow based artist.
My work exists as a nonsensical stream of consciousness, caught between the absurd and the sincere.
My practice focuses on brokenness, loss, failure and repair through repetitive reconstruction. I take apart found materials and reassemble them into them into new forms,  this method reflects a longing to transform, to become something other.

ionanbjones@gmail.com
@iona.joness

Swan Song, 2024
Swan Song is an installation composed of several kinetic sculptures and films, each serving as a fragmented piece of a larger narrative.
My work has always served as a means to digest, process, and communicate complex emotions and experiences. After the recent loss of my father, I found myself drawn to recreating the traumatic imagery associated with hospitals and death. These clinical images have seeped into the otherworldly scenes I create, culminating in the central piece of this installation: The Dying Swan #2. This performative sculpture features a swan enclosed within a 6-foot metal cage, attached to a drip that releases 5 litres of ‘blood’ over the course of the performance. As the blood pools onto the velvet-clad base of the cage, it stains the fabric, visualising the swan’s decay and encouraging the growth of mould, further emphasising the swans deterioration.

Fairy tales, at their core, serve as emotional clarifiers, exploring fundamental human experiences such as disgust, desire, fear, change, and mortality. Francesca Gavin addresses the need for darkness in her book Hellbound; ‘Exploring dark imagery or ideas in art arguably helps to create a sense of control in a world where we have none.’
The Dying Swan, 2024
Approx. 182 cm high. 
Down feathers, IV drip, wire, paper mache, latex, cardboard, duct tape, glass eyes, varnish, steel, wood, velvet, ribbon, paint, glitter, blood, mold.
Mr Wolf, 2024
Approx. 50 cm long. 
Foam clay, paper mache, wood, found clothes, paint, latex, fur, wire, varnish, glass eyes, dentures.
Big Cat, 2024
Approx.105x45x100cm. 
Foam clay, paper mache, wood, found clothes, paint, latex, fur, wire, varnish, nail extensions. 
Untitled, 2024
Approx. 40cm. 
Paper-mache, sheep’s wool, paint, wire, latex, lace, glue, yacht varnish, butcher’s twine, chain, padlock.

Woof, 2024
Runtime: 2 minutes 19 seconds. 
Found footage from Woof! TV show, documentation of performance sculpture animatronic wolf.

My Funny Valentine, 2024
My Funny Valentine is a found footage compiled video piece exploring transformation.

The Dying Swan (video), 2024
Runtime 3 minutes and 7 seconds.
Foam clay, down feathers, paint, varnish, velvet, cardboard, rubber tube, blood, glitter.