Projects
DYCP (2021-2022)
Jon has received a DYCP grant from Arts Council England to investigate animation as a future addition to his practice. This will include digital, drawing, music as well as software techniques.
A Walk in the Narrows (2021)
Created for Hidden Voices of Portsmouth, Jon’s tour is a personal and intimate account of how Kingston Cemetery became a haven during the pandemic and shares some of the waypoints and people he greets each time he visits.
Kongress (2020-2021)
Funded by Arts Council England, Jon worked with Flow Observatorium and Neurodivergent artists, researching barriers to engagement in the arts for Neurodivergent Creatives.
Covid Corvid (2020-Present)
The ‘Covid corvids’ is a self-driven project, combining both paleontology and synesthesia producing freehand-biro drawing in different styles ranging from highly realistic to interpretive mark-making.
KoCreate (2021-2022)
Supported through the Thriving Communities Fund, KoCreate is a series of workshops that aims to reduce isolation, health inequality and boost the self confidence of autistic people, through social prescribing.
Flow Unlocked (2020-2021)
Supported by UCL Culture Trellis programme, Flow Unlocked explored autistic people's relationships to rewrite stereotypes, using drawing, sound and poetry.
Hope Flows in a Circle (2020)
Jon was one of twenty local Portsmouth artists who produced artwork for the We Believe Arts Trail, guided by the theme 'We believe-Expressions of hope and optimism for our city beyond Covid-19'
Games with the Waterhorse (2015)
Games with the Waterhorse, written and performed by Jon, commissioned for Venice Biennal, and Turner Contemporary 2015. Games explores intimately connected family autobiography, Synesthesia, PTSD and is part of his current performance offer.
As an artist and trained geologist, Jon spent two million minutes entwining artwork and his love of geology, mapping the cultural olympiad in the South East region. Look About was commissioned by Accentuate and funded by Arts Council England
Metaordinary (2020)
Jon was commissioned to produce Metaordinary: a series of socially-engaged geologically-inspired artworks made by transforming everyday photographs submitted during lockdown.
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Singing in the Building was commissioned for Royal Academy's Alternative Languages: Confronting Boundaries Festival. Based on his Synesthesia, Jon responded to the building in photography, sound installation and live transformation of found image.
Democracy Street (2015-2019)
Democracy Street centered on the creation of new and unique socially-engaged artwork for exhibition during the celebrations of the long history of UK Parliamentary democracy. Democracy Street was funded by the Speaker's Art Fund and Arts Council England.
Dysarticulate engaged artists and audiences creating tens of thousands of flags, made from recycled book pages. These were woven into a series of public events all round the country, celebrating the Cultural Olympiad. Jon won an Inspire Mark for this project.
2 Point 4 (2008)
Jon was Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Faculty of Technology Portsmouth University - within the ICG - Institute for Cosmology and Gravitation in 2008 and made music from Super Nova's and visual artwork for a show called 'In the arms of my loving Father'
Book Illustration (1984-Present)
Jon started freelance illustration in the early 1980s, after leaving university, finding a niche market in geological and cut-away illustration. He soon developed a reputation for detail and went on to illustrate books on history, archeology, gardening, and plants and even drew a poster for the RNLI one year.
Whilst Artist in Residence at Autism Research Centre, Cambridge, Jon created sound from MRI machines, poetry and found visual artwork exploring sense and sensitivity through the 'hidden', playing with perceptions of normal and the inaccessible.
Goose on the Hill was a retrospective at Pallant House Gallery describing the artists' life story, set out in the form of a museum display using an autobiography of found object, drawings, photographs and other work from his residency with Southern Trains.
Art+ Artist in Resident (2007)
Jon won an Art+ Award for art in public places, after proposing to create artwork from chance conversations with passengers on random journeys. Image and Text artwork in vinyl was emplaced at many train stations in the South and South East of England, the largest being at London Bridge.
