Virtual Art Gallery Exhibition YouTube created 2006
Changing room curtains for 'Ace' Kings Road London 1970's
Bonhams New Bond Street 2022
'sister' coat to Akhnaton inspired by Nefertiti nearing completion.
Pilgrim Coat 1984 | Image Gerald Jenkins 2013
"It is truly an extraordinary piece." The Costume Institute
Metropolitan Museum of Art NY.
image © victoria & albert museum
Making Egypt Exhibition Young V&A 2025
Reading Room Exhibition 2009 | Frith Street Soho
images virtual galleries.com
Acquired by the V&A in 1989, 'Akhnaton' 1976 is now avaible to study at the stunning new museum concept V&A East Storehouse after the coat was featured in Making Egypt Exhibition Young V&A 2025. Viewings by appointment through the Order an Object Service
jjgallery.com is the online art Gallery of London based artist John Jones.
Developing original pencil sketch ideas my artwork embraces drawing, painting, textile art and digital art. I also draw and paint directly on screen, including video and virtual art installation.
Current work nearing completion is a 'sister' picture coat inspired by Nefertiti made from thousands of individual stitched coloured pieces.
Events that evolved around the making are documented in a personal hieirogyphic code. They include climate change & space exploration.
It is the 'sister' coat to 'Akhnaton' which now forms part of the V&A Collection.
The 'Akhnaton' coat completed in 1976 also contains political references in a reverse applique hieroglyphic language I created. One side refers to Jimmy Carter's election campaign, the other side reads "Old MacDonald.......ei ei oh!"
It is featured in a recent book by Venetian historian Isabella Campagnol "Style from the Nile" 2022 and in the V&A Magazine Spring 2025 covering 'Making Egypt Exhibition' Young V&A Feb-Nov 2025. The coat is now available to view through Order an Object Service at V&A East Storehouse.
In 2006 I created one of the first virtual art galleries to exhibit my work on Youtube. It was to question the role of established galleries in the same way that my 'picture coats,' brought powerful images into the streets and everyday life from the late sixties onwards. The reaction to their uniqueness also helped question the nature of celebrity. All that was needed to create 'spectacular' pieces was a bag of scraps, a tube of glue, some time and imagination. The original imagery for the picture coats was inspired by Tolkein, Punch & Judy, Ancient Egyptian Art, butterflies, birds & nature.
A set of changing room curtains in the 70's created for 'Ace' Kings road sold at Bonhams British.Cool. auction 2022.
Exhibitions include Consciousness | Anima Mundi, Palazzo Ca' Zanardi, Venice 2017, Semaine de Cuir Paris, The Phoenix North London and Gallery/Reading Room Soho. Group shows with Exquisite Trove, Newlyn Gallery Cornwall.
Images and Giclee Prints are also available through Saatchiart
Virtual Art Exhibition | Leaves No Trace Installation 2010
An artwork of stitched forest leaves, from the trees in Clumber Park, Nottinghamshire, was created in August 2009. (National Trust / House of Fairy Tales)
It was natural to return the organic leaf art panel to the soil. The "recycle" journey back to the earth from the garden took five months.
The atoms leave a trace they just form a different part of the universe.
A video document and animated 3d virtual art environment was created from the event.
The virtual art installation helps to see round corners and leave no footprints.