Working across painting, drawing, sculpture and collage, Gabrielle Jones explores notions of drama, excess, balance and embellishment. Her works combine intuitive mark-making with distinct nods to art history, high-lighting movement and time through expressive forms and colours, iconic patterns and textures, and layers of paint, all delivered with an unashamedly feminine mien. The resulting work is both a celebration of beauty and a post-modern, antipodean, amused comment on the courtly rituals, manners and pervasive sense of importance and entitlement of protagonists and subjects of much of the artistic canon, here contrasted with the loose, abstract, free forms and rules of contemporary life.