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About

Jon is a practicing designer and academic currently working and studying for his PhD in Edinburgh, Scotland. Since graduating from Bath School of Art and Design in Graphic Communication and then his masters in Comics and Graphic novels at Dundee University Jon has taught at Leith School of art and Edinburgh University and as a researcher in visual narrative.

Recently his work has focused on visual narratives and digital libraries, archives and public domain resources, which he uses to produce small scale compositions and prints.

EDUCATION

University of East Anglia - (2021 - Present) - on hold PhD - Study in arts and humanities

Dundee University and DJCAD - (2018 - 2019) Mlitt in Comics and Graphic Novels,

Bath School of Art and Design - (2009 – 2012) Ba(Hons) Graphic Communication

SELECTED AWARDS AND GRANTS

Artist Development Award - (2021) Creative Scotland

Time Space Money Award - (2020) A-N Artist Network

Superhi Spring Scholarship - (2020) Superhi Artist Development Award

John Yorke Writing for New Media Artist Development Award - (2019) John Yorke Writing School

Project Grant - (2019) The Forest, Edinburgh

Project Grant - (2016) Oxfordshire Visual Arts Development

Artist Development Award - (2015) Arts Council England

Residency - (August - September 2016) Copy//Paste, OVADA, Oxford, UK

Residency - (November - June 2015) COC, Oxford, UK

Artist in Residence, COC, Oxford, UK 2015

Residency - (July - October 2015) Galerie Herold, Bremen, Germany

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Reversal(s), Whitespace Gallery, UK 2022

Paradigm, Electronic Arts Festival - UK 2018

Summer Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy - UK 2017

Directors Cut, OVADA, Oxford - UK 2017

Average Arts, London - UK 2017

Artist in Residence - Copy//Paste, OVADA, Oxford - UK 2016

Displacement, Bath - UK 2016

Artist in Residence, Galerie Herold, Bremen - Germany 2015

Sender/Receiver, Oxford - UK/Germany - Bremen 2015

Create, Destroy, Remake, THG, Oxford - UK 2015

Spotlight, Oxford Town Hall, Oxford - UK 2014

Assembly 2012, Boiler Room, London - UK 2012