Jonathan Kelly
Jonathan Kelly (b, 1988, Hereford, UK) employs a pictorial vocabulary that is simultaneously rich and reductive, self-referential and all-encompassing. Through luminous colour, texture and the use of paired down recognisable symbols he explores - and questions - structures of shared human experience, consciousness and belief. His images feel discovered rather than painted; they emerge from multiple layers of colour whose order appears indistinguishable, as if the paint has suddenly illuminated and awakened timeless forms that lay beneath. Iterations of motifs in confident, decisive lines function as mantras or anchors in a search for some pure essential truth, a quest that is as universal as it is deeply nuanced and personal.
Jonathan Kelly is a graduate of the Royal Academy Schools (2017) and Wimbledon College of Arts (2011). He lives and works in London.
VIEW CV
SOLO EXHIBITION: TRUTHS and Rights March 2022
Installation View | Truths and Rights | Solo Exhibition | March 2022
Installation View | Truths and Rights | Solo Exhibition | March 2022
Installation View | Rarefaction, 2019 | From top: Tanit 34, 2016 , Tanit 30, 2016, Tanit 32, 2016
SELECTED WORKS
JONATHAN KELLY
Pink Links, 2021
acrylic on canvas
82 x 70 cm.
JONATHAN KELLY
Quiver, 2022
acrylic on canvas
154 x 120 cm.
JONATHAN KELLY
Fountain Buddha, 2017
acrylic and screenprint on canvas
165 x 215 cm.
JONATHAN KELLLY
Grace, 2022
acrylic on canvas
82 x 70 cm.
JONATHAN KELLY
Spira (Nature), 2022
acrylic on canvas
47 x 35 cm.
JONATHAN KELLY
Mouthbreather (Electrolyte), 2017
acrylic on canvas
173 x 134 cm.
JONATHAN KELLY
Hand on Heart (Turquoise), 2017
acrylic on canvas
77 x 66 cm.
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Images: Copyright Jonathan Kelly, Courtesy of Ione & Mann; Exhibition Photography by Matt Spour.