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