Shannon Jones

Shannon Jones is a Fourth Year BA Fine Art Student at the University of Pretoria, born in the East

Rand of Johannesburg. Shannon has always had a huge passion for creating and developing artworks

that document her life. As a young artist, Shannon has always been interested in the way in which

order and chaos have a shared relationship in an individual’s life, therefore based on all the

complexities of the everyday she considers herself to be an organized, focused individual that has

always had a meticulous daily routine.

Shannon focusses her process of work on mundane activities of her everyday schedules. Shannon

has designed her own specialized key/code relating to activities she does daily. These codes are

made up of different lines and mark making. She then uses these as the focus of her artworks,

creating each artwork as a timeline of her life. Specializing but not only limited to in Cyanotype

Printing and Pinhole Photography, her work is predominately monochromatic made of either blue

and white or black and white, this is because of the two photographic processes she uses. Shannon’s

body of work is based on her personal life and translate daily experiences of activities into visual

structures that are symbolized by different lines and mark making. In this body of work Shannon

aims to show a flow of information of everyday routines, documented through different visual

symbols and codes that then translate into abstract vernaculars which then become visual

structures.