Adam Jones specialises in ceramics, performance and special effects makeup. Jones methodically researches concepts of the occult mysticism and magical principles. Bones and teeth of human and animal form, phallic symbols and internal organs are resurfacing motifs in his work.
In 2025, their work also appeared in 'Bobby’s Container in The Key’s Under the Mat' by Mike Hewson at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. In 2023, Adam received Performance Space’s Stephen Cummins Residency. In 2018, Jones created his own series of hand-drawn tarot cards for a live tarot-card reading as part of the CAC’s 30th Anniversary celebration. Adam’s tarot card performance featured again at Sydney Contemporary (2019) and at the AGNSW Art After Hours (2019, 2021, 2025) In 2017, Jones was commissioned to create and perform 'The Great Samhaim and the Ugly Mugs’ as part of the Fisher’s Kids. In 2015, Adam won the Macability Art Award for his work ‘Avalon Grimm’ 56 clay creatures from folklore rendered in rough-hewn textures, reminiscent of cast gold.
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