Jon recently graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where he completed an MFA in Fine Art. 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.
Solo Exhibitions
Wonder and War in Heaven, Sculpt, Art in Churches, Snape Chapel, Snape, Yorkshire (2019)
Tempo Process + Grass, Lewisham Art House, London, 2017
Opera Rose, A Brooks Art, London, 2013
SYSTEM, WW GALLERY, London, 2013
Group Exhibitions
Creekside Open, APT Gallery, London, 2017
Saatchi Showdown: In Glorious Colour, Griffin Gallery, London, 2014
Loopart 13, The Faircharm, London, 2013
WW Solo Award Group Show (now CW Award), WW Gallery, London, 2012
Unspilt Peak Problem, Royal College of Art, London, 2010
Artist Commissions
Sculpt, Art in Churches 25 May-28 September 2019
Wonder and War in Heaven, Snape Chapel, Yorkshire
An art trail with the aim of bringing major contemporary art to the countryside, providing commissions and exhibition space for artists and to help address the under utilisation of churches. Incorporating an education day with an artist-led school project, artist talk and presentation.
The Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead Heath, London, June 2014
Chameleon: Mars Black + Cadium Yellow
Commissioned Installation work for the foyer of the Affordable Art Fair.
Residencies
WW Solo Residency, WW Gallery, London, November 2012 - January 2013
Awards
Saatchi Art "In Glorious Colour" Showdown, Competition Winner, Griffin Gallery, London, 2014
WW Solo Award, Competition Winner, WW Gallery, London, 2012
Education
2024 MFA Fine Art (Distinction), Slade School of Art, University College London, UK
2008 BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class), London Metropolitan University, UK