With & Without You was organised jointly with artist and curator Masahiro Kawanaka from Art Spot Korin, an independent gallery in Kyoto, Japan. It comprised two exhibitions: one in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK of the work of 14 students and graduates from art schools in the Kansai region of Japan; and one in Kyoto of the work of 44 Fine Art students and graduates from Newcastle University, UK.

In the exhibition in Kyoto each of the 44 participants showed two works: one made for the exhibition and a second made in collaboration with Christopher Jones exploring aspects of call and response and the collaborative process. Images of these works here.

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The Kink in the Arc is a collective ekphrasis novel compiled by Paul Becker from texts he has developed in collaboration with Giles Bailey, Anna Barham, Bryony Bond, Kate Briggs, Jenny Brownrigg, Sophie Buxton, Daniela Cascella. Toby Christian, Tess Denman-Cleaver, Liza Dimbleby, Annabel Dover, Kathryn Elkin, Susan Finlay, Chris Fite-Wassilak, Nadia Hebson, Kirsty Hendry, Will Holder, Timothy Hyman, Tess Jaray, Christopher Jones, Markus Karstieß, Fiona Larkin, Johannes Maier, Sophie Macpherson, Alisa Margolis, Alice McCreadie, Luke McCreadie, Emmie McLuskey, Marie-Anne McQuay, Conal McStravick, John Douglas Millar, Beatriz Olabarrieta, Kimberley O’Neill, Francesco Pedraglio, Tania Perez-Cordova, Adam Phillips, Chris Power, Alan Quireyns, Audrey Reynolds, Carla Scott-Fullerton, Natasha Soobramanien, Axelle Stiefel, Robin Vanbesien, Luke Williams and Maria Zahle.

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In 2018 Jones was invited by Dr Gitte Marianne Hansen of Newcastle University's School of Modern Languages to curate an exhibition as part of her AHRC-funded project "Eyes on Murakami". The project and accompanying conference, workshops and film-sceenings explored aspects of the writing of the Japanese writer Murakami including: gender; literary translation; transmediality; characterisation and contemporary Japanese society. Jones invited 5 artists, including Akiko Fujimoto and Katsutoshi Yuasa from Japan, to make work in response to their choice of a Murakami text. The exhibition was held at Newcastle University in March 2018 with accompanying catalogue.

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international artists placements: newcastle university

Since 1993 Jones has facilitated a number of residencies for international artists at Newcastle University. These residencies have been supported by those such as the Charles Wallace Foundation, British Council and the Commonwealth Foundation as well as the University itself.

lisa mccosh
Australia
Funded by Victoria Arts
2001

jagdeesh
India
Funded by
Newcastle University
1995  

cheoram mural project: cheoram railway station, south korea

Artists from Seoul have worked with the community of the mining town of Cheoram on a range of regeneration initiatives. For this project in 2007 a number of artists from both Korea and overseas were invited to propose interventions/designs for a space by Cheoram railway station.

british council workshops to india: trivandrum collage of art
                                                        delhi college of art
                                                        madras college of art

Chris Jones and Sian Bowen undertook a British Council Visitorship to India in 1995 in order to work with fine art students at Trivandrum, Delhi and Madras Colleges of Art on a series of workshops exploring site-specific interventions, working with found material, and paper-making.

Two exhibitions one of the work of Jurgen Faust & Iso Wagner in the Queens Hall, Hexham and another of the work of Jones, Sian Bowen and Leisha Seyat in the Ochsenkelter, Metzingen led to further solo and group initiatives involving these artists in Germany, Italy, Slovakia and the UK.

iso wagner & jurgen faust: queens hall art gallery, hexham, uk
september 1992

sian bowen, chris jones & leisha seyat: ochsenkelter, metzingen,  germany
july 1992