Patrick H. Jones (b. 1987, London, UK) begins each painting with observational drawings gathered from both lived and deliberately sought-out experiences. These fragments are spliced, repeated, and collaged, shifting their context to generate new and often ambiguous narratives. Jones embraces this instability—how imagery can become familiar, confusing, satirical, or revealing depending on how it’s assembled and read.
His recent paintings explore the dynamics of communication and group behaviour. He draws parallels between the disinhibition of online engagement and the strange confidence of road rage: how people speak or act behind glass—or behind a screen—in ways they would never dare face-to-face. In his smaller works, figures appear separated by panes or barriers, metaphors for this sense of safety, detachment, and clouded judgement.
While his paintings can be sharply observant or self-critical, Jones resists moralising. Titles serve as clues rather than explanations, and he values the plurality of readings that emerge when viewers bring their own bias, taste, and lived experience to the work.
Patrick H. Jones was born in 1987 and lives and works in London, UK. Recent solo exhibitions include: Target, Duarte Sequeira, Braga, 2024; 1, LINSEED, Shanghai, 2024; Array (tableau), Galerie PCP, Paris, 2023; Dusk, LINSEED Projects, Shanghai, 2022; After Dad, The Sunday Painter, London, 2022; Limbes, Galerie PCP, Paris, 2021; CONDO 2020, The Sunday Painter, London, 2020; Juggle, Plaza Plaza, London, UK, 2018. Recent group exhibitions include: The Shape of Being, Duarte Sequeira, Seoul, South Korea, 2025; The Third Perspective curated by Francesca Gavin, The Merode, Brussels, 2025; Little tree, Ginny on Fredrick, London, UK, 2024; Across the Pond, Eric Firestone Gallery, New York City, USA, 2024; ART OnO, Duarte Sequeria, Seoul, 2024; Patrick H. Jones & Gillian Lowndes, Frieze London, London, 2021; Reconfigured, (curated by Rose Easton), Timothy Taylor, New York, 2021; DREAMTIGERS, The Gallery Soho, London, UK, 2018; SET 24, The Art Academy, London, 2018; Artist of the Day 2018, Flowers Gallery, London, 2018; New Contemporaries, South London Gallery, London, 2018.