Vicki Jones
Body Language
22 October -29 November 2026
Body Language is a collaborative portraiture project with LGBTIQA+ people in Australia and The Pacific, which explores the expression of gender beyond the binary, presented as photographic prints with participant statements. Via the use of both digital and analogue photographic processes and set in safe spaces, the participants are the co-creators of their own representation, inviting the viewer to consider the idea that gender is a creative, evolving, personal life process, expressed by each individual.
Vicki Jones (she/her) is a Naarm/Melbourne based photographer with a community focused, collaborative approach to image making. Jones has created photographic works, films, and recycled vintage lenses into wearable art. As a freelance photographer for 30 years she documented major events in The City of Melbourne, the mysterious ruined interior of The Regent Theatre prior to renovation and created portraits of artists, media identities and politicians.
She has a Diploma of Photography (Fine Art) ACPAC and a Graduate Diploma (Art History) Monash University. As a current Master of Arts (Photography) student at Photography Studies College she is researching the politics of representation of gender identity, how photography provides a space to see beyond the gender binary and working in collaboration with LGBTIQA+ people.
Her exhibitions include Spotto at the Fringe Festival, Calendar Girls at the Midsumma Festival, Below Zero – images from The Arctic at Rokeby Studios and From the Sky – images of Iceland at Dench Café. Jones’s images have been selected as a Portrait Finalist at Head On 2024 and shortlisted at the Australian Photography Awards 2020. Collected images are held at The State Library of Victoria, the City of Melbourne and in private collections. Her freelance work has been published in books, magazines, and newspapers.
Jones manages Big Eye Studios in North Fitzroy on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people, as a photographic/video space and is developing it as a space to support female/non-binary/queer artists.