ABOUT

 

Rebecca lives and works on Wurundjeri-Woi Wurrung Country in Naarm/Melbourne. Through her multidisciplinary drawing practice, Rebecca investigates the fluid relationship between translation, place, and materiality. Informed by her ongoing research into New Materialism and Zen Buddhism, her immersive environments challenge conventional ideas of two-dimensional drawing and disrupt linear experiences of time, blending material storytelling with personal reflection and broader cultural inquiry.

Rebecca holds a Master of Contemporary Art from the Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne), where she was awarded the prestigious Stuart Black Memorial Scholarship for excellence in drawing. She also holds a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of South Australia and has extended her practice through intensive drawing and painting marathons at The New York Studio School.

The Melbourne artist's career is detailed below or view Rebecca Jones's curriculum as a PDF file (2 pages, updated in February 2026).

Melbourne artist Rebecca Jones at her studio

CURRICULUM

  • Awards

    2024 Finalist Emerging Artists Award, fortyfivedownstairs Gallery, Melbourne
    2022 Stuart Black Memorial Scholarship, bestowed for excellence in drawing, The University of Melbourne

  • Education

    2022–2023 Masters of Contemporary Art, The University of Melbourne

    2020, 2019, 2012, 2010, 2008 The New York Studio School, Painting and Drawing Marathons

    1993 Bachelor of Arts, Drawing and Film / Media, University of South Australia

  • Group exhibitions

    2026 All That Returns, Five Walls Gallery, Footscray

    2025 Tin Pot Tactics: Feast and Flourish, Fitzroy Public Gallery

    2025 Unsettled Ground, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Abbotsford

    2025 Counter Encounter, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne

    2024 Sample Exhibition, Neon Parlour, Thornbury

    2024 Fort Earth Exhibition, fortyfivedownstairs gallery, Melbourne

    2024 Gear Box Arts, Melbourne Grammar, Melbourne

    2023 VCA Graduate Show, Martyn Myer Arena, Melbourne

    2023 From Where I Stand, Art Space Gallery, Melbourne

    2022 Radical Self Care and Sustainable Art Making, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne

    2022 Dora McCrae Exhibition, The Stables, VCA, Melbourne

    2022 Tastings Takeover, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne

    2022 IT'S A PROCESS, Art Space Gallery, Melbourne

  • Projects

    2023 Sound Exploration Lab with George Paton Gallery and Union House Theatre

    2022 Dora McCrae Animation Workshop with Rebecca Agnew

  • Residencies

    2025 Melbourne Grammar School, Artist in Residence

    2018, 2017 Falls Creek Resort, Artist in Residence

    2016 Melbourne Girls Grammar, Morris Hall, Artist in Residence

    2015 Melbourne Girls Grammar, Barbara Tolsen Centre, Artist in Residence

  • Related professional experience

    Educator of New Technologies and Drawing

    2020 Hume Libraries, Digital Drawing Program

    2019 Yarra Libraries, Digital Drawing Program

  • Commissions

    2021, 2019, 2018 Stage Play Projections, Melbourne Girls Grammar