Lucia Jones & Dylan Williams

November 10, 2023 - December 1, 2023
Opening Reception November 10th, 2023 | 6PM onwards

Visible Records is collaborating with Freeman Artist Residency and Elysium Gallery to exchange artists for exhibitions and residencies.

Elysium gallery is a non-profit contemporary arts and studios provider that fosters education and engagement between artists and communities to create positive social change. Founded in 2007, elysium was created to support and promote the arts in Swansea and beyond with an emphasis on collaboration and community.

Elysium is Wales’s largest studio provider. It serving as an incubator for a thriving group of Swansea artists by providing workspaces, community engagement opportunities, and professional development. They are an artist led organization that encourages pride and participation in local visual and performing arts in an environment that promotes education, participation, experimentation, freedom, and appreciation in all creative practices.

Lucia Jones

Lucia Jones is a painter based in Wales. Her practice explores memory and perception of self through the constructs of paint and film. Primarily utilising cinematic source imagery from obscure 1950s-90s b-movies, she addresses the intangible nature of memory and the shifting impressions of lived moments. Re-contextualising women from these sources, the paintings form a series of anonymised figures occupying fractured and fabricated environments. Liberated from their original medium and plains of existence, they are absorbed into the painted realm developed throughout her oeuvre; their context reconstructed and their world shaped around them, they act as cyphers to the experienced - to be glimpsed and examined.

Since graduating from Falmouth University in 2014, she has exhibited throughout the UK in solo and group exhibitions including BEEP Painting Prize 2018. She has also been short-listed for a number of art prizes such as John Moores 2020, Jacksons Art Prize 2022 and 2023. Her work is currently held in private collections in the UK, USA, Austria and Hong Kong.

Dylan Williams

Dylan Williams b.1995 is a painter based in Swansea. His paintings are unearthed from the Welsh hills where he grew up and drawn from the surroundings on walks, cycles and swims. Deeply concerned with a metaphysical connection to the natural world, his work attempts to fuse transcendental and universal encounters into meditative, calm imagery of the landscape. Dylan studied at Swansea College of Art, and is based at Elysium Gallery Studios. He has shown in group and solo shows across the UK and in the USA and his work is held in private collections across the UK and USA. In 2022 he won the Glynn Vivian award at the BEEP Painting Biennale.