Curriculum Vitae
Exhibitions
Selected One Person Exhibitions
2018
For Here There Is No Place, Burren College of Art, Ireland
2016
Timothy Emlyn Jones, Chelsea Arts Club, London, UK
2008
The Idea of The Rain, commissioned permanent installation for the glass bridge, IT Building, National University of Ireland, Galway
2008
In Praise of Bad Weather, exhibition of drawings, National University of Ireland, Galway Art Gallery in support of The Idea of the Rain commission
2005
Drawing In – Drawing Out, jointly at the Galway Arts Centre; the National University of Ireland, Galway Art Gallery; and University College Hospital, Galway, Ireland
2004
Timothy Emlyn Jones, at The Sonia Rolack Space, Giudecca, Venice, Italy
2001
Timothy Emlyn Jones, at An Tuirrean Art Centre, Portree, Isle of Skye, UK, part of The Scribble Festival founded by TEJ
2000
The Elements of Drawing, at Centrespace, DCA (Dundee Contemporary Arts);
1998
Landscape Paintings by Eirony Jones, at First Sight, Bath, curated by Mike Porter
1997
Knowing What the Eye Likes, at Gallery Focus, London, curated by Shane Waltener
1996
Seeing Things, at Muzeul Banatuliu, Timisoara, Romania, curated by Ileana Pintillie
1996
Seeing Things, at The BAC Gallery, London, curated by Tom Morris
1993
The Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh; Marborough Festival (winner Southern Arts Festival Prize).
1987
Horizon Gallery, London, curated by Balraj Khanna and Amal Ghosh;
1983
Ceolfrith Gallery, Sunderland; LYC Gallery, curated by Lee Yuan Chia;
1981
Galeria ‘X’, Wroclaw, Poland,
1979
Oriel Bangor, University College of North Wales;
1976
The Cockpit Arts Workshop, London;
1975
Oriel, The Welsh Arts Council Gallery, Cardiff;
1975
Other Books and So, Amsterdam;
1974
Student Cultural Centre, Beograd, Yugoslavia;
1974
Piotrowice Palace, Wroclawia, Poland;
1972
Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff http://www.performance-wales.org/archive/eventsyears/1972.html
Two Person Exhibitions
2001
Two cultures at The Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, with Michael Esson
1989
…the vision…, at The Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; with Michael Farrell, curated by Angela Kingston
1970
Concerning People, at The Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff; with Paul Roberts
Selected Group and Other Exhibitions
2018
Vue Contemporary Art Fair 2018, at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin. Represented by the Oliver Sears Gallery
Royal Hibernian Academy, 188th Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland, invited artist
Salon, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2017
Salon, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
One-Off, The Masters Exhibition of Monoprints, Bankside Gallery, London, UK
Impressions Print Exhibition, Centre for Creative Arts and Media, Galway, Ireland
2016
Chelsea Arts Club, London, UK
Impressions Book Arts Exhibition, Centre for Creative Arts and Media, Galway, Ireland
2015
Impressions Print Exhibition, Centre for Creative Arts and Media, Galway, Ireland
2012
RE Open, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, Bankside Gallery, London
Royal Hibernian Academy, 182nd Annual Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland, invited artist
2011
Out of a Box, at 126 Gallery, Galway, Ireland
2009
International Exhibition of Artists’ Books, Cheoung-ju, Korea
2009-10
Into Irish Art, Limerick City Gallery of Art, curated by Arno Kramer, also touring to Hengelo, Paris and Portadown.
2008
126 Artists, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2004
The 1st Burren Annual, at Newtown Castle, Burren College of Art, Ireland
2003
Drawing – The Process, at Kingston University, UK
2002
Suijomo Identity, at Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
2001
The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2001 Exhibition, at The Princes Foundation, London, and the University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, UK
2001
Drawing Connections, at The International Drawing Research Institute at The College of Fine Arts, UNSW, Sydney, Australia, part of the Drawing Connections Conference.
2000
70/2000: The Road to Meikle Seggie, at The City Art Gallery, Edinburgh, UK curated by Richard Demarco
2000
Painting in Scotland, Glasgow Print Studio, UK, curated by Clare Henry
1998
Chelsea Arts Club, London, UK, group exhibition members’ drawings
1998
Drawing of the Month, Chelsea Arts Club, London, UK, January
1998
First Sight, Bristol and Bath, UK, gallery artists
1997
First Sight, Bristol, UK, several group exhibitions
1997
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
1997
Group Exhibition at New End Gallery, London, UK, curated by Jeff Sawtell
1996
Works on Paper, National Gallery of Mongolia, Ulanbattar, Mongolia
1994
Joseph Beuys in Scotland, an Edinburgh Festival, UK, memorial exhibition
1993
Gallery Artists, William Hardie Fine Art, Glasgow, UK;
1992
Pentagonale Plus, Faculty of Art and Design Gallery, University of Kingston, UK;
1992
Critic’s Choice: Clare Henry, The Cooling Gallery, London, UK, with Michael Kidner, Jenny Saville, Julie Roberts and others;
1992
Cork Street Open, The Cooling Gallery, London, UK;
1992
Gallery Artists, The Cooling Gallery, London, UK,
1991
Budapest Spring Festival, Hungarian Academy of Art, Budapest, Yugoslavia; Edinburgh Science Festival;,
1990
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, UK; Edinburgh Festival; Art90 Art Fair, London, UK;
1989
Art89 Art Fair, London, UK; International Contemporary Art Fair, Bath, UK;
1987
Austin Desmond Fine Art, London, UK;
1987
Horizon Gallery, London, UK;
1987
Meglepetes, International Artists’ Book Exhibition, Istvan Kiraly Museum, Szekesfehervar, Hungary, with Arrowspire Books;
1986
The People’s Art, Rochdale Art Gallery, UK; University of Nova Scotia, Canada;
1984
British International Print Biennale, Bradford, UK;
1984
St Paul’s Gallery, Leeds, UK;
1982
British Polaroid Open, Spectro Arts Workshop, Newcastle, UK;
1981
Terra 2, Architectural Museum, Wroclaw, Poland; Galeria ‘X; Poland; Galeria P, Krakow, Poland;
1978
Uniart, Elblag, Poland;
1978
Broadway Galleries, Milwaukee, USA;
1977
Ancient Cultures in the Modern World, Welsh Arts Council/ Free International University exhibition at the Royal National Eisteddfod, Wrecsam, UK, with Joseph Beuys, Mario Merz, Janis Kounellis, John Chris Jones and others. Curated by TEJ and Caroline Tisdall; Creativity and Institutions, FIU exhibition at Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany (with Joseph Beuys), curated by TEJ;
1976
Multi-Media, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
1975
Art in contact, a Galeria Propozycje touring exhibition, Poland;
1975
Science Fiction, ICA London, UK;
1974
Prospectiva, Museum of Modern Art, Sao Paulo, Brazil;
1974
The April Meetings, at the Student Cultural Centre, Beograd, Yugoslavia with Joseph Beuys, Marina Abramovicz, Tom Marioni and others;
1974
Goethe Institut, Glasgow, UK, with Embryo Books;
1974
Small is Beautiful, Angela Flowers Gallery, London, UK;
1974
Langton Gallery, London, UK;
1974
What’s New? Welsh Arts Council touring exhibition, Wales, UK;
1973
Edinburgh Festival exhibition, Richard Demarco Gallery, with Joseph Beuys, Gunther Brus, Tadeuz Kantor and others;
1972
Kontrapunkt, Wroclaw, Poland;
1972
CAYC, Buenos Aires, Argentina;
1971
London Now In Berlin, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany;
1971
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK;
1970
The Young Contemporaries (winner of the Arts Council Prize), London, UK;
1970
Gallery artists, at Howard Roberts Gallery, Cardiff, UK, with David Jones, John Piper, Ceri Richards;
1970
Several collaborative performances with Stuart Brisley at the Sigi Krauss Gallery and the Royal Court Theatre, London, UK and the Brighton Festival, UK, and with Peter Dockley at Battersea Park, London, UK;
1969
Several collaborative performances with Stuart Brisley at Camden Arts Centre, London, UK, with Ian Breakwell at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London, UK, and with Peter Dockley at The Place, London School of Contemporary Dance, UK
Works in Public Collections
Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK (Gift of the Arts Council of Wales)
Anoka Ramsay College, Minnesota, USA
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
Indian Arts Council in the UK
Irish State Collection, Ireland (Office of Public Works)
Museum Meermanno/The House of the Book in the Hague, The Netherlands
Museul Banatuliu, Timisoara, Romania
Polaroid USA
National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Royal Collection, UK
UK Government Art Collection (Department of National Heritage)
University College of North Wales, Bangor, UK
ZPAP The Polish Artists’ Union
Publications
2014
‘The PhD in Studio Art Revisited’, and ‘The Studio Art Doctorate in America’, two chapters in James Elkins (Ed), 2014, Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art, Second Edition, New Academia Publishing, LLC
2009
‘Research Degrees in Art and Design’, and ‘The Studio Art Doctorate in America’, two chapters in James Elkins (Ed), 2009, Artists with PhDs: On the New Doctoral Degree in Studio Art, New Academia Publishing, LLC
2008
Interview with Heike Roms, in Heike Roms, What’s Welsh For Performance? Trace: Samizdata Press
2007
‘Performance and Protest,’ Heike Roms with Timothy Emlyn Jones and Andrew Knight, in New Welsh Review, No 76, Summer 2007
2006
‘Art Comes Out of Art: Timothy Emlyn Jones and John Baldessari discuss art and art education,’ in Visual Artists Newsletter, Visual Artists Ireland, July 2006,,
2006
‘The Studio Art Doctorate in America,’ in Art Journal, Summer 2006
2005
‘A Method of Search For Reality: Research and Research Degrees in Art and Design’ in Printed Project No 4: The New PhD in Studio Art. edited by James Elkins, Sculptor’s Society of Ireland, 2005; and in Thinking Through Art. edited by Lin Holdridge and Tracy Mcleod. Routledge, 2005; also, together with ‘Afterword,’ in The New PhDs in Studio Art, edited. by James Elkins (Urbana IL: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming).
2002
‘The PhD in Art & Design’, a conference paper for ELIA Conference, Dublin
2001
RAE2001, wrote and edited submission for the Research Assessment Exercise for The Glasgow School of Art (rated 4, an increase of three grades)
1999
‘Our Conversation with Things and Places, an Enquiry into Art and Research Methodology’ in Disciplines, Fields and Change in Art Education, Vol. 1. Art Education and Art Practice. Ed Jacquie Swift, in the Art Dialogue Series, series editors John Swift and Arthur Hughes, ARTicle Press, University of Central England
1999
‘Art and Lifelong Learning’ in Journal of Art and Design Education, NSEAD and Blackwell
1998
Application to the Privy Council for Degree Awarding Powers for Taught Courses at Wimbledon School of Art, UK,
1997
‘A View From The Chair’ and ‘Piece For Many Voices’ in Shelley Sacks (Ed.), Social Sculpture Colloquium, The Social Sculpture Forum and the Goethe Institut, Glasgow in collaboration with The Free International University
1996
RAE96, wrote and edited submission for the Research Assessment Exercise for Wimbledon School of Art (rated 5, an increase of one grade)
1995
HEQC Quality Audit, wrote and edited submission for Wimbledon School of Art
1992
Preface to John Chris Jones (1970, 1980 & 1992), Design Methods, new edition, Van Nostrand Rheinhold, USA
1992
Book Review of M. Stallard et al (1991), ‘The Art and Design Courses’, Avec, in Journal of Art and Design Education, NSEAD, Corsham, Wilts
1992
Art & Design Modular Degree and Diploma Scheme, a submission for validation, University of Wolverhampton, validated 1992
1992
Research in Art & Design, in Research Report and Publications Review, University of Wolverhampton
1990
Lisa Bone; an introduction to the exhibition, Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
1990
‘Out of the Mould’, catalogue introduction for Ancy Verghese, Horizon Gallery, London
1990
The MA Art & Design Network, a submission for validation, University of Wolverhampton, validated 1990 with supplementary submission validated 1994
1988
A Sense of Justice, catalogue essay on David Ferry, University of Kent
1976
‘Eye and I’, in Artscribe, article on art education
Poetry
TEJ has also published poetry and short prose with a number of small presses such as Arrowspire Press, Beau Geste Press, and Embryo Books, and is featured in the following anthologies: Grandchildren of Albion, Ed Michael Horovitz, New Departures; Routes Through English, Ed Andrew Barrett, Longmans, a GCSE text book; Seeing In The Dark, Ed Ian Breakwell, Serpents Tail; Brought to Book, Ed Ian Breakwell, Penguin Books. He has also made illustrations and book covers for a number of poets including: John Agard; Attila the Stockbroker; Eric Mottram; Laurence Upton; and Alaric Sumner.
Lectures and Conference Presentations
2019
“What Is Creative Process?” an open discussion for students and the public, part of the programme to celebrate the 5th anniversary of Dilijan College, Dilijan, Armenia
2019 Creative Process Workshop, European Cultural Parliament, Dilijan, Armenia, Convenor
2017
Creative Process Workshop, European Cultural Parliament, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Convenor
2015
Creative Process Workshop, European Cultural Parliament, Girona, Spain, Convenor
2014
Creative Process Workshop, European Cultural Parliament, Pristina, Kosovo, Convenor
2011
Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin, The Language of Art and Music:
“An International Symposium on the Potential for Artistic Expression to Cross Cultural Barriers and the Relationship between Art, Culture, and International Relations,” Keynote speaker, ‘The Work of Art, what does art do and how does it do it?’
2011
Creative Process Workshop, European Cultural Parliament, Pecs, Hungary, Convenor
2011
CAA Conference 2011, New York, presented paper; “New Knowledge: New Art (Art Research as Creative Process)”
2010
European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), presented paper ‘Curious Art: Art Research as Creative Process’ at Annual Conference, Nantes, France
2010
Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT), 10th Annual Symposium, NUI Galway, Keynote Speaker, “Creative Difference: Being Different, Making a Difference”
2008
Bauhaus Research School, Weimar, Germany with DAAD, presented paper, “Towards a Research Paradigm for Art” at the ‘Artistic Research’ conference as an invited speaker
2008
CAA Conference 2008, Dallas, USA, Discussant, session “What is the use of art school”
2008
Anoka Ramsay College, Minnesota, USA, Visiting Artist
2007
The Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio, USA “Art/Design/Knowledge” invited speaker speaker at conference on doctorates in studio art and their impact on the economy
2007
Cardiff College of Art, UK, Panellist in symposium, What’s the Welsh for Performance? with Heike Roms, John Chris Jones and Andrew Knight, published in New Welsh Review (see below)
2007
CAA Conference, New York. USA, presented paper, “Time, Space and Inspiration; the Lessons of Study Abroad in Studio Art
2007
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, USA, Visiting Artist
2007
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA, Visiting Artist
2006
WonderGround, the Design Research Society International Conference, Lisbon, Portugal. Member of the Scientific Committee
2006
CAA Conference, Boston, USA, Discussant, session “The MFA and PhD: Torque in the Workplace” (published in Art Journal, Summer 2006 as “The Studio Art Doctorate in America”)
2006
University of Minnesota, School of Art & Design, Minneapolis, USA, Visiting Artist
2006
Gustavus Adolphus College, Minnesota, USA, Visiting Artist
2005
CAA Conference, Atlanta, USA, invited participant, Art Journal roundtable on
Graduate Studies in Art & Design
2005
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, USA, Visiting Artist
2005
European Network for Art Research, keynote speaker on research and research degrees at inaugural meeting, Kuvataideakatemia / The Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
2004
Association of Heads of Art Schools in Ireland, keynote speaker on PhDs in studio art, Dun Laoghaire College of Art & Design
2004
Association of Independent Colleges of Art & Design, (AICAD), speaker at annual symposium, “The PhD in Art & Design”, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, USA
2002
European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA), presented paper ‘The PhD in Art & Design’ at Annual Conference, Comhar, Dublin, Ireland
1999
University of Central England, Birmingham, UK, guest speaker at conference ‘Disciplines and Change’ in the School of Art (see publications below)
1998
The Tate Gallery, Liverpool, UK, speaker on ‘Art and Lifelong Learning’ in Art and Art Education in the Post-modern World seminar, published in Journal of Art and Design Education
1997
Independent School’s Association, UK, Annual Conference keynote address, ‘Art and Lifelong Learning’
1996
Independent School’s Association, UK, guest speaker and judge of annual art prizes at Annual Conference, Cheltenham
1995
Goethe Institut, Glasgow, UK, Chair of Social Sculpture/ Joseph Beuys colloquium
Other Projects
2008
European Union / Higher Education Research Area, awarded JRP Networking Grant for Humanities as a Source of Creativity and Innovation Project: “Everyone Is An Artist, an enquiry into the transferability of creative culture and creative processes from fine art practice to personal, organisational and business contexts,” in collaboration with the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki and National Academy of Fine Arts, Bergen, Norway. This project is being developed in collaboration with CISC, Cairnes School of Business and Economics, NUI Galway
2008
RTE Radio 1, programme contributor reviewing exhibition by Nick Miller at Limerick City Art Gallery
2002
Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China, Artist in Residence, July-August
2001
An Tuireann Art Centre, Skye, Scotland, instigated The Scribble Festival
2000
International Drawing Research Institute, (a collaboration of: Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing; University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts; and Glasgow School of Art), founding member
1996
NSEAD Artist-Teacher Scheme, Wimbledon School of Art and Tate Modern, co-founder
1991
BBC2 contributor to profile of Richard Demarco, produced by Andrea Miller
1977
Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany, curator of ‘Creativity and Institutions’ exhibition for Joseph Beuys/Free International University
1977
Welsh Arts Council, Co-curator (with Caroline Tisdall) of ‘Ancient Cultures in the Modern World, how the past perishes and the future becomes’, exhibition at the Royal National Eisteddfod (exhibitors included Joseph Beuys, Jannis Kounellis and Mario Merz)
1974
Scottish Young Contemporaries, co-curator and co-judge of Arts Council Prize (with Nigel Hall)
Honours and Awards
2019
The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, elected to membership
2016
Chelsea Arts Club, elected Member of Council
2011
European Cultural Parliament, elected Member
2003
National University of Ireland, Galway, Professor of Art Education
2002
Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, China, Guest Professor of Fine Art
2001
The Jerwood Drawing Prize, UK, shortlisted
1999-03
University of Glasgow, Honorary Professor
1996
Chelsea Arts Club, elected member
1994-99
Wimbledon School of Art, Professor
1986
Royal Society of Arts, UK, elected Fellow (FRSA), and Life Fellow from 2016
1970
The Young Contemporaries, Royal Academy of Arts, London, awarded Arts Council Prize
Education
1979-80
Cardiff University with Cardiff College of Art, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK
Magister in Educatione (MEd): research degree in art education
1971
Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Royal College of Art Scholarship
1969-71
Royal College of Art, London, UK
Master of Art by thesis and project (MArt (RCA)): first practice-based research student
1966-69
Hornsey College of Art, London, Middlesex University
Diploma of Art and Design (Dip AD)
Member of the student action committee that initiated the 1968 Sit-In
Teaching
2013 –
Burren College of Art, Ireland
Dean of Possibilities
2003-13
Burren College of Art, Ireland
College Dean and Graduate Director
1999-02
The Glasgow School of Art, Scotland, UK
Deputy Director and Director of Academic Development
1994-99
Wimbledon School of Art, London, UK
Assistant Principal (Academic Affairs)
1989-94
University of Wolverhampton, UK
Associate Head, School of Art & Design
1987-89
Stourbridge College, UK in association with the University of Wolverhampton,UK
Assistant Principal (Higher Education)
1986-87
Rochdale College of Arts and Design, UK
Acting Principal
1984-87
Rochdale College of Arts and Design, UK
Head of Department, Diagnostic Studies
1980-84
Nelson and Colne College, Lancashire, UK
Head of Creative Arts
1976-79
The Open University; UK
PT Tutor on Art and Environment Course TAD292
1973-79
Rutherford School, London, UK
Head of Department of Art, and Head of Sixth Form
1971-73
Inner London Education Authority (in association with the British Film Institute); Part-time tutor in Art, and Film Studies at several institutions
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