I've always enjoyed working with Axolotl because the commitment to excellence and innovation was understood, they like to be pushed and I did push them with the projects we shared.
DALE JONES-EVANS
DALE JONES-EVANS
Dale Jones-Evans, architect, artist, designer, art collector, publisher, director of Dale Jones-Evans Pty Ltd and adjunct professor of the School of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology in Sydney was born in 1955 in Melbourne, Victoria. It was in Melbourne where he spent most of his childhood. Jones-Evans was raised within an artistic environment with his mother greatly involved in crafts and his father in painting, albeit after retirement. His strong interest in art is later exemplified by both his architectural projects and art works. The disciplines of fine arts, urban geography and the political economy of world cities inform Jones-Evans’s approach to architecture.
In 1977 Jones-Evans completed a Diploma of Fine Art at the Caulfield Institute of Technology (later Monash University) in Melbourne, Victoria. In 1978, Jones-Evans began his study for the Bachelor of Architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Victoria. He began working as an architect in 1983, establishing his first company, Biltmoderne, before completing his Bachelor of Architecture in 1987. Jones-Evans’s first architectural project, Inflation Nightclub, had received the Victorian Royal Australian Institute of Architects (RAIA) 1985 Merit Award, gaining significant recognition for him as an innovative contemporary architect in Australia. In 1988, he established his second office, Dale Jones-Evans Pty Ltd Architecture (DJE). In 1993 Jones-Evans re-located to Sydney and in 2005 made Zoe Jenkins and Maki Yamaji Associates. The practice has produced a diverse body of architectural, interior, residential and commercial projects including The Gallery House (1987-90), The M Central (2003-2005), Kemenys Liquor and Sydney Opera House Bennelong Restaurant (2001). DJE architectural practice has been highly awarded and received wide-spread recognition, including nine RAIA national and state awards, numerous industry awards and in 1988, an international award, 'International Record Houses Award’, from the United States of America. In 1991 and 2008, Jones-Evans also represented Australia at the 5th and 11th International Architecture Biennial in Venice, Italy, respectively.
Jones-Evans has a diverse artwork portfolio, ranging from public, installation art to digital construction. Some of his artworks are provocative, for instance, 2050 Still Humans was staged at the Victoria Room, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, taking the diners/ audience by surprise. Even more so was his 2006 POL Oxygen Magazine Designex exhibition artwork which incorporated over 160 glass jars holding real sheep brains lining the walls, each of them labelled with the name of a creative 'mind’ featured in POL Oxygen magazine over the years.
