Lyndal Jones is an Australian Video and Performance Artist. Her projects tend to unfold-over and document long periods of time and ‘glacial’ change that nonetheless manifest in the present and the local.Lyndal has presented work and is represented internationally and has represented Australia at the Venice Biennale.
In ‘Prediction Pieces’ (1981-1991) Jones she explored ‘the way humans arrange the idea of the future within their minds’
The Darwin Translations (1994-99) explores Darwin’s theory of sexual selection across the animal and human and its relation to notions of sexual play.
Deep Water/Aqua Profunda (2001) is a video and sound installation exploring the nature of sexual intimacy (for the Venice Biennale).
The Avoca Project is a sprawling project that explores themes of immigration, subsistance, climate change, and community in the Victorian country town of Avoca.