Acclaimed artist Rachel Jones will create two new site-specific commissions for The Courtauld Gallery. Opening on 25th September 2025, the new artworks will be presented in The John Browne Entrance Hall and Ticketing Hall of The Courtauld Gallery and will be free to visit.
Rachel Jones (b. 1991) is celebrated for her monumental canvases and bold use of colour. Working in pastel and oil stick, she creates large-scale abstract compositions in a kaleidoscope of rich colours and gestural marks. Her paintings often feature motifs of mouths and teeth interwoven in a landscape of natural forms, representing points of entry and connection between the body and the outside world.
The new artworks continue the artist’s dialogue with works in The Courtauld’s world-leading collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Jones described Vincent van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889) in The Courtauld’s collection as her favourite and most inspiring work in a London public collection, calling it ‘the epitome of how to use colour, texture and a sense of self to create an image’.
Rachel Jones was born and lives in London. She studied Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools. Recent solo exhibitions include Rachel Jones, !!!!!, Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, US (2024), Rachel Jones, a shorn root, Long Museum, Shanghai, China (2023), and Rachel Jones, say cheeeeese, Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK (2022). A solo exhibition of Jones’ work, Gated Canyons, will open at Dulwich Picture Gallery on 10th June 2025.
Jones’s 2025 installation is the latest in a series of contemporary art exhibitions and commissions at The Courtauld Gallery across its public programme, including recent major solo-exhibitions by Claudette Johnson and Peter Doig, and a commission by Cecily Brown which was unveiled when the Gallery reopened in 2021.
Rachel Jones: Courtauld Gallery 2025 Commission, Opening 25th September 2025
The John Browne Entrance Hall and Ticketing Hall Free display courtauld.ac.uk
