Tony Jones

Anthony "Tony" Jones is a Welsh sculptor, art school leader and art educator. He served as Director of the Glasgow School of Art from 1980 to 1986.

Life

Jones grewup in a small hamlet in west Wales and studied at the Newport School of Art.

He went on to teach sculpture at the Glasgow School of Art in the 1970s

Jones joined Art Institute of Chicago in 1986 as Chancellor and led the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as president twice: first from 1986 to 1992, ang again from 1997 until 2008. Between those terms, he served as Director of the Royal College of Art in London from 1992 to 1997.

He received a CBE in 2003 for services to the promotion of British art in the USA.

He received an honorary doctorate from the Glasgow School of Art (Doctor of Letters, D.Litt.).

He is an Honorary Vice President of the Glasgow School of Art.

Jones is an advocate of the rebuilding of the Mackintosh building after its fires of the 2010s and gave evidence to the Scottish Parliament backing this plan.