A llen Jones is a British painter, sculptor and lithographer associated with the Pop Art Movement, best known for his controversial, erotic paintings and sculptures of women. Striving to find new ways of depicting the female figure that pushed the boundaries of the accepted canons of artistic expression, Jones sought inspiration from American post-war erotica and fetish magazines after moving to New York in the mid-1960s. His inaugural sculptural figures, created in 1969 and first shown in 1970, Hatstand, Table, and Chair, presented life-size female mannequins as furniture, establishing his fetishistic, erotic and transgressive visual imagery for which he became known, this ensemble of works becoming icons of Pop Art.

Born in the English port city of Southampton in 1937, Jones’ family moved to Ealing, West London in 1940, where he spent his childhood. In 1959, Jones enrolled at the Royal College of Art (RCA), where he studied amongst the pioneers of British Pop Art, including David Hockney, Peter Phillips and Ron Kitaj. Despite his expulsion from the RCA after one year, he was invited to participate in the seminal Young Contemporaries exhibition in 1961, considered the first exhibition of British Pop Art. In 1963 the artist represented the United Kingdom at the Paris Biennale, winning the Prix des Jeunes Artistes. Further, Jones has been commissioned to create significant sculpture works in international cities, including large-scale steel sculptures for London Bridge City, the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London and Taikoo Place in Hong Kong. Testament to the importance of the artist, Jones has been honoured with numerous retrospectives and solo exhibitions around the world, including at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool in 1979; the Serpentine Gallery, London in 1979; the Barbican Art Gallery, London in 1995 which toured worldwide with the British Council; and the Royal Academy, London from 13 November 2014 to 25 January 2015.

英國畫家、雕塑家及版畫家艾倫・瓊斯的名字令人想到波普藝術，而他最為人熟悉的作品，是極具爭議性與情色意味的女性雕塑及畫像。瓊斯一直致力發掘嶄新的手法去描繪及重現女性的身體，甚至挑戰藝術表達上的傳統規範。他在1960年代中移居紐約後，開始從美國戰後有關戀物癖及情色的雜誌中尋找靈感。瓊斯在1969年開始創作雕塑，翌年首個雕塑系列面世，其中的《帽架、桌與椅》將真人比例的女性模型化為家具，這帶有戀物癖與情色意味的視覺語彙使他聲名大噪，而這系列的作品亦成為了波普藝術的經典代表。

1937年，瓊斯在英國南安普敦一個港口城市出生，1940年隨家人移居倫敦西部的伊靈，並在當地長大。1959年，瓊斯與大衛・霍克尼、彼得・菲利普斯及羅那德・齊塔伊（Ron Kitaj）同於皇家藝術學院就讀，這些人都成為了英國波普藝術先驅。雖然瓊斯一年後被學院開除，但他獲邀參與1961年的「年輕當代藝術家」（Young Contemporaries）展覽；這場展覽其後被視為英國第一場波普藝術展。1963年，瓊斯代表英國參與巴黎雙年展，並贏得青年藝術家獎（Prix des Jeunes Artistes）。瓊斯受過多項委託，為許多國際級城市創作大型雕塑，包括倫敦橋商業購物休閒區（London Bridge City）、切爾西及西敏醫院、香港太古坊等地的大型鋼鐵雕塑。瓊斯曾在各地舉辦多場回顧展及個展，包括1979年在利物浦的沃克美術館及倫敦的蛇形畫廊；皇家藝術學院（2014年11月13日至2015年1月25日）。1995年，倫敦巴比肯美術館（Barbican Art Gallery）更與英國文化協會合作為他舉辦世界巡迴展，足見瓊斯在藝壇的影響力。