Jonathan McCree
“I think my memories play out in colours and their relationships. I’m instinctively aware that it has to be a brown next to a particular shade of orange let’s say, which perhaps comes from a memory I can’t quite pinpoint. I wonder if these memories are abstract, maybe they are about emotions and desires more than specific narratives.”
Jonathan McCree works with film, installation, painting and sculpture as a record of movement and emotion through space. He pushes the boundaries of what is normally perceived as architecture and demonstrates how experimental practice can help uncover new strategies for exploring spatial ideas and qualities. Materiality and structure are main considerations, giving way to a deeper understanding of the spaces we navigate on a daily basis. He works with traditional notions of architecture but also with the architecture of the body and the mind. With references to the historical, the biographical and the quotidian, McCree’s work reflects a series of moments, the concept of potential, a space where anything can happen. Exploring lived experience in the body, paint, and painting, serves not only as a visual medium, but as a performative one, a study of the physical across space and time.
Born: Bucks 1963, lives and works in London
Education:
History of Art BA(HONS), University of Sussex.
Hertfordshire College of Art and Design
Represented by Sim Smith
Solo Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions Solo Exhibitions
2023
Sim Smith
London, UK
2022
Outside Mainly
Sim Smith viewing room, London, UK
2021
I Never Imaged It Could Be Like This
Foundry Gallery, London, UK
2021
High Folly
Sim Smith, London, UK
2016
Do Be Do Be Do
2014
Crossings
2013
Drawing On Nature
2013
Falling Into Place
2013
No Ground Under My Feet
2013
Once A Year
Northcote Gallery, London, UK
2012
Abracadabra
Northcote Gallery, London, UK
2012
Falling Into Place
2011
Days On End
Selected Group Exhibitions Selected Group Exhibitions Selected Group Exhibitions
2022
Prospect and Refuge
2021
Up For Grabs
2021
Now, Now
Breach Gallery, Miami, USA
2020
Public Notice
2020
Atelier97
2019
What Kind of Spirit Is This?
2018
Monticello D’Arte
2017
Art Licks Weekend
2016
Pulse Miami Beach
Conversations section with Tim Garwood, presented by Sim Smith
2016
Closer To The Veg
2016
Playroom
2015
Open15
2013