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

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

A collaboration with New Movement Collective, Sim Smith, London, UK

2014

Crossings

in collaboration with Paul Statham, Watermans Art Centre, London, UK

2013

Drawing On Nature

Museo Craveri, Bra, Italy, curated by Victor de Circasia

2013

Falling Into Place

Watermans Art Centre, London, UK, in collaboration with Gretchen Schiller and Helen Paris

2013

No Ground Under My Feet

Tavoletto Chapel, Turin, Italy, curated by Victor de Circasia

2013

Once A Year

Northcote Gallery, London, UK

2012

Abracadabra

Northcote Gallery, London, UK

2012

Falling Into Place

Université Stendhal Grenoble, France, in collaboration with Gretchen Schiller and Helen Paris

2011

Days On End

The Caroline Gardens Chapel, London, UK, in collaboration with Paul Statham

Selected Group Exhibitions Selected Group Exhibitions Selected Group Exhibitions

2022

Prospect and Refuge

Sim Smith, London, UK, curated by David Surman

2021

Up For Grabs

APT Gallery, London, UK, in collaboration with Bruce Ingram, Joe Walkling and Jonathan Goddard

2021

Now, Now

Breach Gallery, Miami, USA

2020

Public Notice

Curated by Holly Pollard and Kira Wainstein, venues across East London, UK

2020

Atelier97

La Spezia, curated by Alessio Guano, Italy

2019

What Kind of Spirit Is This?

Sim Smith, London, UK, curated by David Surman

2018

Monticello D’Arte

Curated by Carla Testore. Castello Di Monticello D’Alba, nr. Turin, Italy

2017

Art Licks Weekend

Curated by Looking at Painting and KoProjects, London, UK

2016

Pulse Miami Beach

Conversations section with Tim Garwood, presented by Sim Smith

2016

Closer To The Veg

Fitzroy Park Allotments, London, UK, curated by Sasha Galitzine and Olga Mackenzie

2016

Playroom

London, UK, curated by Sasha Galitzine and Olga Mackenzie

2015

Open15

Northampton Contemporary, UK

2013

Exhibition at The Castillo Di Monticello D’Alba

Italy, curated by Victor de Circasia