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| The theme of my work is landscape. I am consumed by awe at the stillness and sometimes overpowering force of nature, which acts as a means to reveal an internal landscape. I am also interested in the interplay between the experience and memory of the natural world and challenged to depict this in paint. The act of painting reinforces that memory and evokes emotions related to it, often revealing conflicting ideas of: intimacy and enormity, familiarity and mystery and emptiness and fullness. In addition, my creativity embraces the issues of personal identity in a collective society and the importance of quiet contemplation in a culture where alienation and isolation can often prevail. The subject matter echoes what usually passes us by: uneven, weathered wall /stone textures, cracks found in rocks and dry earth, drips revealing the passage of time … Elements of nineteenth century European northern romantic landscape painting are important to me for example, a search for God in nature and adopting light and darkness as metaphors, whilst I simultaneously take inspiration from modernism, especially the Abstract Expressionists acknowledging the painting as a thing in itself, the importance of the act of making and exploring the tension between abstraction and figuration. It is my hope that the work could encourage a meditative response and through reflection the spectator may touch upon an experience akin to that which was felt by me whilst making it. |
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| TRAINING • 2006: Royal College of Art, London. PEP, Department of Printmaking • 1995–1996: PGCE Oxford University • 1991–1993: MA in Fine Art and Art History, The University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK Included: Studio Studies painting, printmaking and photography, Contemporary Theory course and a thesis, entitled ‘Spiritual Connotations in Contemporary Landscape Painting’ held in the National Library of Wales. • 1988–1991: BA Honours degree in Fine Art, The University of Wales, Aberystwyth Studio Studies and Art History. Undergraduate thesis: ‘Ronald Lowe and the Twentieth Century Romantic Idea’, held in the National Museum of Wales. 2:1 • 1987–1988: Foundation, The University of Wales |
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| • Screening at Optica, The Gijon International Festival of Video Art (Nov 2007) • Screening at "Inside Out", Signals 5, London (Sept 2007) • One Minute International Film Festival Aarau, Switzerland (August 2007) • Screening at Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece (July 2007) • Pocket Film Festival, Olhares, Lisbon (June 2007) • The Video Art Gallery Screening, MTR Studio 23, London (2007) • Art Video Screening, Västerås, Sweden (May 2007) • Screening at Izolenta International Digital Film Festival 2007, St Petersburg, Russia (May 2007) • 'Loop pool' at the 53rd International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany (May 2007) |
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| • Tiamasora Print Biennale, Banat Museum, Romania touring 2006–2007 • ArtSway, The New Forest, UK Dec 2006 • La Mals, Sochaux, France Nov 2006* • Off the Shelf, Saltburn Artists Projects, UK Dec 2006 • Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, Florida, USA 2006 • Glasgow International Art Fair, UK 2006 • Dublin Art Fair, Eire 2005 • Domus II, Perpignan, France 2004, 2003* • Rentrée, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London 2000 • Fresh Paint, The Wiseman Gallery, Oxford 1998 • Jonathan Moss: Works on Paper, The Strang Print Room, University College of London 1998* • Forgotten Places, The Mill Arts Centre, Banbury 1997* • The Anderson Gallery, Broadway, UK 1997, 1996 • Contemporary Stance, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, UK 1996* • Rikki Harcourt Gallery at Phillips Antiques, Hitchin, UK 1996, 1995 • Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells, UK 1996 • The Oxford Gallery, Oxford 1996, 1995 • The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London 1995 • These Enchanted Woods, Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth, UK 1995 • Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales Arts and Crafts Exhibition, Colwyn, UK 1995 • Self-Portraits, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth 1995 • Solitary Places, University of Wales, Aberystwyth 1995* • The Spectator 7th National Art Award, Images of the Earth, Sotheby’s, London 1994 • Portobello Prize Exhibition, Tabernacle Gallery, London 1994 • Images of the Earth, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh 1994 • The New English Art Club Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London 1994 • Open Door ’94 Exhibition, London 1994 • Ferens Winter Exhibition, Ferens Gallery, Hull 1994 • Summer Exhibition, Burlington New Gallery, London 1994 • Grande Exposition de Printemps, Forum des Halles, Paris, France 1994 • This Sceptred Isle: Visions of Britain, Burlington New Gallery, London 1994 • La Terre, Le Ciel et La Mer, Espace Lety, Vienne, France 1994* • Wizo, Ben Uri Gallery, London 1994 • Guardian ‘Art for Sale’ Exhibition, Atrium Gallery, London 1993 • Art Today, Bonhams, London 1992 • Six Passions, Deffit Francis Gallery, Swansea 1992 COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS The Royal College of Art, Musée Juif de Belgique, La MALS Sochaux, Hertfordshire County Council, BAS Printers Ltd printers of art books, National Library of Wales, University of Wales. Aberystwyth, Collège Ponsard Vienne, France, IGER the Welsh Plant Breeding Station. Work in private collections in Europe, Japan, Canada and the USA. |
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painting • print-making • films • exhibitions • studio
Jonathan Moss: jonathan@atelierstlouis.com |
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