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JONATHAN WALLER

CURRICULUM VITAE

Born

1956
Stratford upon Avon

Education

1979-80
Nene College, Northampton

1980-83
Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic

1984-85
Chelsea School of Art

Awards

1980
Northampton County Council Travelling Scholarship

1983
Ekins Trust, Northampton: Working visit to Berlin

1984
First prize, Midland View 3, Nottingham

1985-86
Junior Painting Fellowship, Cardiff

1986
Welsh Arts Council Setting-Up Grant

1988
Mark Rothko Memorial Trust: Travelling Scholarship to USA

1990
British Council Grant: Working Visit to New York.

1997-2016
Coventry University Research Awards

Solo Exhibitions

1984
Nene College, Northampton
Coventry (Lanchester) Polytechnic

1986
Paton Gallery, London

1988
Paton Gallery, London

1990
Flowers East, London

1992
River Bank, Flowers East, London

1993
Flowers East, London

1994
Paintings 1986-93, Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery
Gouaches, Angela Flowers (Soho) Gallery, London

1994
Gouaches, Flowers East, London

1997
Birth, New End Gallery, London

1998
Birth, Axiom Centre for the Arts, Cheltenham

1998
Paintings & Drawings 1994-98, New End Gallery, London

2000
Transcriptions, Art at Glebe House, Leamington Spa

2003
Box Assemblages, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry

2005
Jonathan Waller’s True Adventures, National Maritime Museum Cornwall, Falmouth

2006
Jonathan Waller’s True Adventures, Arlington Gallery, London

2008
Heads & Drawings, Herbert Café, The Herbert, Coventry

2013
A Gallery of Condemned Men, The Lewis Gallery, Rugby

2013
A Gallery of Condemned Men, B&B Gallery and Project Space, Folkestone

2016
The Seven Ages of Man, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon

2016-17
Preparatory Studies & Drawings for The Seven Ages of Man, Lanchester Research Gallery, Coventry

Selected Group Exhibitions

1983
Sheffield Open, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield

1984
New Contemporaries, ICA, London
Midland View 3, Midland Group Arts Centre, Nottingham and touring

1985
Attitudes, Guildhall Gallery, Northampton

1986
Four New Painters, Paton Gallery, London
Fresh Art, Barbican, London
Royal Overseas League Annual Exhibition, London

1987
New Work by Six Gallery Artists, Paton Gallery, London

1988
‘London, Glasgow, New York’, Metropolitan Museum, New York
Pacesetters, City Art Gallery, Peterborough
Object and Image – Aspects of British Art in the 1980’s, City Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke on Trent
‘From Daedalus to Ariane: Images of Flight’, Paton Gallery, London

1988-90
The New British Painting, Cincinnati, touring show ending in Queens Museum, New York

1989
The Thatcher Years: An Artistic Retrospective, Flowers East, London
Confrontation: 3 British Artists, Peter Howson, John Keane, Jonathan Waller, Joy Emery Gallery, Detroit, USA

1990
Flowers at Moos, Moos Gallery, New York, USA
‘This Sporting Life’, Flowers East, London

1991
Angela Flowers Gallery 1991, Flowers East, London
Kunst, Europa – 74 Kunstvereine zeigen Kunst aus 18 Landern, Karsruhe, Germany
Nudes, Watermans Art Centre, Brentford

1992
Artist’s Choice, Flowers East, London
Human Form, Parnham House, Dorset

1993
Heads, Royal Museum & Art Gallery, Canterbury
‘But Big is Better’, Flowers East, London
New Figurative Painting, Salander-O’Reilly Galleries/Fred Hoffman, Beverley Hills, USA

1993-94
By Underground to Kew, London Transport Museum and Kew Gardens Gallery, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London

1994-95
An American Passion, The Susan Kasen Summer & Robert D Summer Collection of Contemporary British Painting, McLellan Galleries. Glasgow and Heathrow Airport, London

1995
Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Flowers East, London touring to
Santiago, Chile.
The Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London

1996
‘Naked’, Flowers East, London
Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London

1997
Angela Flowers Gallery 1997, Flowers East, London
Taboo, New End Gallery, London

1997-98
Provocative Prints, New End Gallery, London

1998
Modern Portraits: Expressions of Intimacy: Golden Gate University, San Francisco
Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition (1998), Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education touring to Berlin and Hull

1999
The Comfort of Strangers, Waterstone’s, Piccadilly, London
Love, Religion, Explosives, St. Margaret’s Church, Norwich

2000
Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition (1999), Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, touring to: Hull and Berlin
Drawing Parallels, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry

2001
Fast Forward, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry

2002
Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London

2004
Suns and Moons, Falmouth Art Gallery
The River, Falmouth Art Gallery
We Can Work It Out, Three Colts Gallery, London

2004/05
The Disturbing Eye, Pink Stallion Gallery, Manchester, touring to
Trade, London

2005
Paintings From The Nineties, Flowers Central, London
The Circus Show, The Three Colts, London

2006
Through The Looking Glass, The Three Colts, London
The Marmite Prize, The Residence, London
Ctrl, Alt, Delete, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry

2006/07
The Great Exhibition Room, Arlington Gallery, London

2007
O Dreamland, Transition Gallery, Greatstone, Kent

2007/08
Black & White, Gallery 12, London

2008
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2008, Jerwood Space, London & tour
A Gothic Story, Shoreditch Town Hall Basement, London

2008
Re/Cognition, The Herbert, Coventry
Drawing Breath, Lugar Do Desenho – Fundacao Julio Resende, Gondomar, Porto, Portugal

2008/09
Small is Beautiful XXV1, Flowers Gallery, London

2009
Drawing with Dolphins, Crimestown, London
Artworks Open 2009, Artworks Project Space, London

2010
Summer Open Exhibition, Café Gallery Projects, London
Standing Room Only, Flowers Gallery, London
An Orchestra of Strings, The Crypt, St Pancras Parish Church, London

2010
400 Women, Shoreditch Town Hall Basement, London + tour

2011
Coventry University/Seawhite Drawing Open 2011, Lewis Gallery, Rugby
Unearthed, Warton House, London

2011
Rifettorio Project (Fioravante Sansoni’s Last Supper), Rifettorio Museum, Pescia, Italy

2012
Coventry University & Design Buro Drawing Prize 2012, Lewis Gallery,
Rugby

2013
Coventry University Drawing Prize 2013, Lewis Gallery 2013
Small is Beautiful XXX, Flowers Gallery, London

2014
The Artist’s Folio as a Site of Enquiry, Cartwright Hall Gallery, Bradford
Coventry University & Elliotts Drawing Prize 2014, Lewis Gallery, Rugby and Lanchester Gallery, Coventry
Not Yet Dead Nearly, Salthouse Church, Salthouse, Norfolk
Drawology, Lanchester Gallery, Coventry
RED Xmas, Studio 1.1, London

2015
Not Yet Dead Nearly, King’s Lynn Art Centre

2015
Coventry University Drawing Prize 2015, Lewis Gallery, Rugby and
The Atkins, Hinckley

2016
Coventry University Drawing Prize, Lewis Gallery, Rugby and The Atkins, Hinckley
Small is Beautiful XXX1, Flowers Gallery, London

2017
Precision of Thought, Container Gallery, London

2018
Coventry University Drawing Prize, C.E.T. Building, Coventry
Six artists Celebrate Enid Marx & The British Folk Art Collection, Compton Verney, Warwickshire

Public Collections

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Tate Gallery, London
Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery (Contemporary Art Society)
Department of Environment
Unilever Plc
Bankers Trust
Readers Digest, London and New York
De Beers
London Underground
British Airport Authority
Basildon Hospital
Novas Group, London and Liverpool
Bradford Museums
Herbert Art Gallery & Museum, Coventry

Commissions

1994
London Underground, poster for Kew Gardens
Portrait of Shirley Sussman Schneer
Book jacket for ‘Look the Demon in the Eye’ by Angela Neustatter

1995
British Airport Authority, two paintings for Terminal 3, Heathrow Airport

1999
Small sculpture for ‘The Comfort of Strangers’ in aid of the Medical
Foundation

2007
Outdoor Sculpture, Willowfield School, London

2010
Portrait of Heidi Slauquet Armengol for the 400 Women exhibition

2012
Portrait of the Cricketer Tom Cartwright

2016
The Seven Ages of Man, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, seven drawings to commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s Death
Double portrait of Bruce and Hannah Fletcher

2017
Drawing of Geoff Wilcocks’s hands

Radio

1985
Interview in conjunction with the exhibition ‘Attitudes’, BBC Radio Northampton

1998
Broadcast on BBC Radio 3, ‘Defining Moments: Birth’

2013
Broadcast on BBC Radio 4, ‘A Room with a View: The Artist’s Studio’

Television/Film

1991
‘London’ German Television ZDF

1997
‘Birth’, film by Joanna Cain for Real Life TV

2007
‘O Dreamland’, a Channelwebscene Production

 

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