The Dean
Professor Timothy Emlyn Jones,
DipAD(Hornsey), MArt(RCA), MEd(Cardiff), FRSA
Dean and Director of Graduate Studies
“What more could an art historian ask than an articulate
practitioner, who has made up his mind about what matters, and who practises
what he preaches with exemplary dedication and perseverance?”
James Elkins on Timothy Emlyn Jones
Tim is an artist "whose impulses are experimental, the outcomes
of whose research are unpredictable and revelatory. He has opted to
explore some of the most basic aspects of drawing: the subject on which
he focuses with such intensity, the theme of his creative meditations,
is drawing itself"
Mel Gooding on Timothy Emlyn Jones
Tim has exhibited internationally and is represented in public collections
in a number of countries. Recent exhibitions include Beijing, China;
Dundee and Glasgow, Scotland; Belfast, Galway and Limerick, Ireland;
Paris, France; Sydney, Australia; and Venice, Italy.
Tim came to the Burren College of Art in January 2003 from Glasgow
School of Art where he was Deputy Director, prior to which he was Assistant
Principal (Academic) at Wimbledon School of Art, London. He has served
as an educational consultant and an external examiner internationally
and has published on creativity and art research. He is a professor
of the National University of Ireland, Galway and the Xi'an Academy
of Fine Arts, China.
Teaching Philosophy:
“My best teachers did not teach me: they helped me to learn, and
to learn how to learn. One encouraged me to be different from other
emerging artists of my generation, and helped me find the way. Another
told me freedom was the hardest discipline and then showed me how. There
was one who told me he could forgive me anything I attempted and failed,
but nothing I failed to attempt. Another encouraged me to value surrender
to perception. All my best teachers helped me to enquire, to connect,
to trust my intuition, to value my doubt, to doubt fashions in art,
to be critical and self-critical, to welcome risk, indeterminacy and
muddle, and to think big and then double it.
My wish is to help students to enquire and to discover in the way I
was helped. And to do so in the spirit of fellow feeling and celebration
of our common creativity.”
