Dan Jones (artist)
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Daniel Powys Jones (born June 29, 1962) is a rock musician, figurative painter, designer and author of alternative comic Bruised Fruit and novelist.
In the early 1980s he was a member of rock band "Living in Texas" with disabled performance artist Mat Fraser. They released 3 albums, "Living in Texas", "Fastest men alive" and "The end of the beginning". In the mid 1990s he worked for French television creating animations for the programme "Rapline".
As a painter he exhbited with the Hydra artistic collective at the Rich and Famous gallery, London and was one of a number of artists including Lennie Lee, Ingo giezendanner and the Mikry Drei who were invited to exhibit at the Cabaret Voltaire (Zürich) home of Dada by Swiss artist Mark Divo in the winter of 2002 in an attempt to bring about a revival of the Dada movement. He has produced a number of animations/ designs for disabled performance artist Mat fraser.
He has published two novels entitled "Two headed Monkey", 2007 and "Fast Cuts", 2008

