about
Natisa Jones b. 1989
Born in Jakarta, Natisa Jones is a visual artist who works between Bali, Indonesia where she spent most of her childhood growing up – and Amsterdam, Netherlands where she is currently based. Jones completed a Visual Arts diploma studies in Chiang Mai Thailand and a bachelor’s degree of Fine Arts Painting in RMIT University - Melbourne, Australia.
Through the process of writing, drawing, painting, and video, Jones establishes a tightly-knit relationship between her personal experience and her creative practice. For Jones, urgency and candour play a significant role in creating work. Fluctuating between abstraction and figuration, while regularly integrating text within a painting, Jones seeks to emphasize duality as an underlying theme in every aspect of her work. Drawing and text are treated as an exercise of self-reflection in the pursuit to inquire into identity. A process where the private, isolated self, and the self as part of a collective, are able to confront one another.
Jones has held several solo exhibitions and participated in international group exhibition in countries that include but not limited to: Indonesia, Singapore, Philipines, Thailand, Australia, China, Germany and Amsterdam.