escape the past, watercolour and ink, 22 x 30″, fabriano, 2018 
Detail of Dead Goat, Painted from autopsy images, watercolour and ink on archival paper, 55″x 30″ 
Dead Goat, Painted from autopsy images, watercolour and ink on archival paper, 55″x 30″ These will all contain hands exploring the dead animal . Like the renaissance doubting Thomas Paintings that reflect the incredulity of Thomas that Jesus had died and come back to life, these hands emphasize the permanent nature of death of the physical. 
Suspended
This exhibition is a space and time for dwelling on mortality, loss and cycles of rebirth.
Philippa Jones’ Suspended is an immersive installation consisting of large drawings and paintings, a celestial sculpture featuring thousands of cast orbs containing fragments of plants and animals, and interactive technology that gives viewers a unique perspective on the cycles of life.
Time is pulled in strange directions, verging on the infinite or freezing in a never-ending instant – suspended – and it is in these moments outside of the flow of time that Jones gives the viewer a special control of reality. It is a space to reconnect to the Earth, reckoning with an ecological grief and detachment from Nature and the natural, while trying to understand and question our emotional responses to physical inevitabilities.
A suspension never lasts forever; eventually, it all must end.
PHILIPPA JONES 