Rachel Jones at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
10th June, 2025 – 19th October, 2025
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Gallery Rd
London
Dulwich Picture Gallery debuts a new series by Rachel Jones, exploring colour, form and the interior landscapes of Black identity.
Dulwich Picture Gallery will present its first solo contemporary exhibition in the main galleries this autumn, featuring new work by the British artist Rachel Jones.
Jones, born in 1991 in Whitechapel, east London, to a Jamaican mother and Barbadian father, grew up in Brentwood, Essex. She studied fine art at the Glasgow School of Art, earning a degree in painting and printmaking in 2013, and completed her master’s at the Royal Academy Schools in London in 2019.
Courtesy of the artist and Dulwich Picture Gallery
Her practice moves between painting, installation, sound and performance, often marked by bold colour, layered textures and recurring motifs of mouths and teeth. These forms, both physical and symbolic, frame her exploration of identity, interior life and the lived experience of Black bodies. She has described her approach as an “exegesis of colour”, using palette and form as a language for emotions that resist articulation.
Courtesy of the artist and Dulwich Picture Gallery
The works commissioned for Dulwich grow from her recent exhibition at the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco and respond to the Gallery’s collection.
They continue a thread in her career that has included solo exhibitions at Chisenhale Gallery in London, the Long Museum in Shanghai, and residencies at the Chinati Foundation in Texas and the Masterworks Museum of Bermuda Art. Her work is held in collections including Tate, the Hepworth Wakefield, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami.
The exhibition is organised by Jane Findlay, Head of Programme and Engagement at Dulwich Picture Gallery. A fully illustrated catalogue with new essays will accompany the show.
Rachel Jones at the Dulwich Picture Gallery opens on the 10th of June, 2025 until the 19th of October, 2025 at Dulwich Picture Gallery
©2025 Rachel Jones, Dulwich Picture Gallery
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