Jonathan Jones, a Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi artist, curator and researcher, collaborates with community and challenges audiences through immersive installations that ignite classroom conversations about Country. Working fluidly across printmaking, drawing, sculpture, film and site‑specific interventions, he revives archival histories and local knowledge, foregrounding Aboriginal relationships to land, language and custodianship. Collaboration sits at the core of his practice; projects with Elders, notably Dr Uncle Stan Grant Senior, model shared cultural authority and intergenerational learning.

Jones has exhibited nationally and overseas, and his works are held in public collections, offering rich case studies for the Australian Curriculum: Visual Arts. His landmark 32nd Kaldor Public Art Project,  barrangal dyara: skin and bones (Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, 2016), commemorated the erased Garden Palace, while the 2018 Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship recognised his creative leadership. Jonathan’s cultural insight and pedagogy empower educators and students to engage respectfully and confidently with contemporary First Nations art.