Jon Gabb uses art-making as a means to open-up a between space, a place experienced through dreaming. By disengaging and allowing the body to be a part of the making process, a kind of somatic undertaking takes place. Forms, shapes and colours awaken the senses. The senses are loci where an exchange with the external world takes place. Through a wandering and travelling through mediums he seeks to find the architecture in which the spirit of something can enter.
Jon is currently undertaking an MFA in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Jon’s ambitious site-specific installations have been recipients of a number of highly-coveted and competitive awards, including the WW SOLO Award in 2012, and the 2014 Saatchi Art Colour Showdown Competition. Following his first successful solo exhibition “SYSTEM” at the WW Gallery in January 2013, Jon’s second solo show “Opera Rose” at Abrooks Art Gallery, was met with critical acclaim and listed in the top 5 shows to visit in Whitechapel Gallery’s First Thursdays. Jonathan has also had works exhibited at the Griffin Gallery, and at the Affordable Art Fair. He was nominated by Axisweb in 2013 as one of ten contemporary artists to watch and invest in, confirming his status as one of the UK’s most exciting emerging artists. His work “black + multiple 24” was selected by Alison Wilding for APT’s Creekside Open 2017. More recently Jon’s site-specific work "Wonder and War in Heaven” was one of seven artists’ works commissioned for Sculpt, Art in Churches Trail in North Yorkshire.