Step into the minds of Yorkshire's fruitiest Art Duo: Grimes & Jones - a world of lies, hot dinners and bad
smells.
Two best friends are driven by a constant need to out-do one another, they create high energy, impulsive, multi disciplinary artworks.
Every day simpleton themes are doused in personal ignorance, sourness and exuberance to create visually arresting, bombastic works.
Grimes & Jones:
Website: www.grimesandjones.co.uk
Contact: [email protected] // [email protected]
Call: 07783864014
Past Shows & Exhibitions
July 2010 – Aug 2010
100 Painting Summer Show,
Patricks Harvest Gallery,
London.
Aug 2010 – Sept 2010
Bad Art Salon,
Vintage Festival,
Goodwood.
October 2010
The Big Draw,
Crocus Gallery,
Nottingham.
Feb 2011
TV/OD
Transition Gallery,
London.
March 2011
Desire and Repulsion: Grotesqueries
The Art Corner,
Manchester
July 2011
Cartoon
46 New Broad Street,
London
July 2011
Bad Art Salon 2011
Royal Festival Hall,
London
August 2011
Mudskippers
GARAGE Project: Edinburgh Art
Festival
Edinburgh
Sept 2011
The fish that bit Dad
Curated by Grimes & Jones
Monks Gallery,
Lincoln
December 2011
'Wanker's Paradise'
A live action painting at the event:
'Oh for the Love of Dada'
The Bettsy Trotwood
Farringdon
London
Feb 2012
‘Big John’
Painted for (In)Xclusion,
Patrick Studios,
Leeds
Aug 2012
Bad Art Salon
Wilderness Festival,
Oxfordshire
Aug 2012
If they only knew
Doncaster Museum,
Doncaster
Oct 2012
Awakening
Left Bank,
Leeds
Dec 2012
Miniature Heroes
12-12-12
Bank Street Arts,
Sheffield
Feb 2013
Vantage Art Prize
Ellingdon House,
Leeds
Jan 2014
Miniature Heroes 2013
Westgate Studios
Wakefield
Awards
Barracuda Award – St James Baths , 1995
Hooks for hands Art Prize – Hook Gallery, Edinburgh, 2010
(1st place) for contribution – ‘Life without hotels’
Artist of the week – Salon Contemporary, London, 2011
Adam Ant Tanquery Gin Award – Bad Art, London 2011
Public Choice Award - Bad Art, Oxford, 2012
Criticism
Featured: Art Wednesday Magazine (http://artwednesday.com/2012/10/10/art-wednesday-6-grimes-jones/)
“Many of the pieces are successful feminist commentaries which highlight the grotesque in society’s gender relations. Grimes and Jones’s Man and Wife depicts a husband and wife as representations of their respective genitalia. The scrawled messages of “in sickness and in health” and “too much dinner” amplify the social meaning of the work.”
http://manchestermule.com/article/arts-review-desires-and-repulsion
“FAMILY death mask. Dad, son, daughter and MUM carved into the models forehead. Found wood/wound, driftwood, found body, you’re MY wife now, Idolise and fear. ‘Feel the fear and do it anyway’ – a direct quote from Grimes & Jones (artists.)”
By Paul Kindersley
Issue 3, Spring 2011 – ART LICKS Magazine.
References:
Joe Duggan - [email protected]: Director and Curator at Heavens Full and 42 New Broad Street, London.
Paul Kindersley – Artist and Curator, Transition Gallery, London:
[email protected], 07811182253
