Chris Jones collaborated with Paul Evans on a series of watercolours entitled 'Cells'. Chris wrote haikus to go along with the paintings. The work was shown at the Cupola Art Gallery, Sheffield, then at the 20-21 Visual Arts Centre in Scunthorpe.     A slideshow of the Cells.

Art Critic Robert Clark in The Guardian has written of this exhibition: 'One set of works on show here is based on dramatic images of waterfalls formed by melting glaciers at the end of the last ice age. Colour is shoved around here with aplomb. Another set is microscopic improvisations, quivering with spidery scratchings and accompanied by Chris Jones' succinct poetic fragments: "The ultrasound gleans/rib-light and coral fingers;/your heart a quick fish." Together they manage to make a show that suggests a concern for the environmental crisis combined with a celebration of the precious vulnerability of human passion.'

For more information about this project and Paul Evans' work go to: http://www.pkevans.co.uk.
Paul Evan's drawing project is Origin 09 (http://www.origin09.org/).

In autumn 2006 I worked in collaboration with a digital artist and arts organisation with the view of putting up a piece of art in the Millennium Galleries, Sheffield. I created a visual poem with Lovebytes Digital Arts and the Dutch Graphic Design studio Renascent: my poem 'Lost' was transformed into a film that highlighted animation, reflection and typography, and was shown on the three plasma screens in the foyer of the Millennium Galleries from Friday 6th October to Sunday 7th January. The piece can be seen on Renascent's website in the form of a movie. This piece is part of a larger sequence entitled A Museum of Work. Listen to the entire sequence in my podcast.

I appeared in a number of readings with colleagues who form the collective Inky Fish Poets. Most of the readings took place in the East Midlands from October to December 2006. The group continues to look for readings as a collective enterprise.

Chris was asked to write a sequence of poems that will be chiseled on the face of a new building by the River Don. He was commissioned by Off the Shelf (www.offtheshelf.org.uk), and the work will be unveiled sometime in the future.

He also worked with the sculptor Amanda Wray on a 'Companion Stone', a commissioned public artwork made in co-ordination with Arts in the Peak (www.artsinthepeak.co.uk). There will be more information about this project on the site later this year.

Chris Jones reading of "At the End of the Road, a River"
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Chris Jones reading of "A Museum of Work"
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