Nicholas Jones was born in 1974 in the United Kingdom. He completed a Bachelor of Fine Art at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1997, Master of Fine Art at RMIT University in 2001 and a Graduate Diploma of Education at the University of Melbourne in 2003.

Nicholas has held a number of solo exhibitions including A Conspiracy of Cartographers (The State Library of Victoria), To the Islands (Stockroom Gallery) Without Bias (Craft Victoria), The Garden of Forking Paths (Geelong Gallery), Author and Finisher (Kozminsky Gallery) and In Libris Veritas (Crystal Palace Gallery).

He has also taken part in many group exhibitions including Democracy (Grahame Editions), Unfold (45 Downstairs), Materials and Techniques: Paper (Perth Institute of Contemporary Art), Novel Ideas (Oakville Gallery, Ontario, Canada), Make the Common Precious (Centro Cultural Mapocho, Santiago, Chile), Materiality (Town Hall Gallery) and Telling Tales (Glen Eira Gallery)

Jones’s work has been featured in a number of publications including ‘Make the Common Precious’ (Craftsman House), Book Art (Gestalten), Where They Create (Frame) and ‘Art Made from Books (Chronicle Books).

His work is represented in many public and private collections including State Library of Victoria, State Library of Queensland, The University of Melbourne, Deakin University, RMIT University, Geelong Gallery and Artspace Mackay.

Nicholas has received an Artist development grant through the Australia Council, a travelling fellowship from the Ian Potter Cultural Trust and a Creative Fellowship from the State Library of Victoria.