MA PRINTMAKING ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART KENSINGTON GORE LONDON 2001 - 2003 BA (HONS) FIRST FINE ART FALMOUTH CORNWALL 1997 – 2000 POST COMPULSORY CERTIFICATE IN EDUCATION GREENWICH MARITIME UNIVERSITY LONDON 2007 - 2008 LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION TUTOR GRAPHIC DESIGN FOUNDATION AND CMP DIPLOMA IN IMAGE PRODUCTION 2007 - (ONGOING ) PRINT TECHNICIAN K2 SCREEN FINE ART SCREEN PRINTERS CLERKENWELL LONDON 2005 -2007

Print graduate of the Royal College of Art, Jonas is an artist based in East London whose work falls into two main categories which encompass the twin strands of both Fine Art Practice and Illustration. Work is diverse, drawn equally to abstraction, portraiture, to the world of fashion, as it is to the marginal and subversive nature of supernatural themes and its association with the more disreputable forms of popular entertainment. Vying between concentrated detail and intuitive mark-making, the qualities of both the portraiture and the abstracted work evolves as a personalised statement of authenticity and affectation. The mosaic-like motifs offer geometrically pure terrains and engage with ideas of the exotic and synthetic. Motifs become increasingly disorientating, with layered internal space and vortex-like structures shifting the picture beyond the reality of the frame. The picture plane is a platform for the formal experimentation with space, color, structure, reality and abstraction rather than content or meaning. The rich quality of the printed colour in contrast with what is depicted sometimes draws connotations to beauty as well as the grotesque. Fabricating hand drawn images and blueprints initially on computer, traditional ornamentation is reconfigured as templates of abstracted information. Drawing is the basis of the work, each print a different thing where an interior develops, an aesthetic idea or sensation that is intuitively led. Appropriated photographs are taken from a variety of sources from books, magazines as well as digital sources. A dominant interest lies in the artistic momentum of filtering, leveling and balancing out the pictorial qualities of the source material. Achieved through treatment in both digital conversion and CMYK colour separation silkscreen technique, final pieces consist of large printed panels which are visually complex and often cartographic in form. The resulting compositions create an arcane and inverted perspective. Accumulation of historical research has formed the basis for this configuration, one in which associations between religious constructions, quasi-science and fictional architecture are a re-occurring feature. The message is one of subverted cultural elucidations of history. Interested in the roots of early Modernism, Suprematism, Constructivism, the allusion to tradition as validation in compositional rigor, political commitment, the pseudo science of people like Ouspensky concerned with higher knowledge, the 4th dimension. Taken from disparate yet analogous influences, works attempt to coalesce in an allusion to invented cultural interpretations of good and evil, heaven and hell, salvation and damnation. Recent activities have included projects as diverse as Christies ‘Multiplied’ Editions fair, design collaborations with head of menswear at Versace, designer Martyn Bal, Co curator of Salon Vogue at Royal Dalston Hotel, fashion illustration for ELLE Magazine, Celestial Contrakt group show at Schwartz Gallery London which again I co-curated with Christina Mitrentse and print projects with Berlin based print Gallery RISE BERLIN.