Jonas Ranson

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London, United Kingdom

	Fine Art Graduate of Falmouth College of Arts [1997 – 2000] and subsequent Printmaking Post Graduate of the Royal College of Art [2001-03]. Recent exhibitions have included Tableau Vivant, Aquarium Gallery, Bloomsbury 2007, Terra Extremitas, Multi Disciplinary Event NDSM – Werf Amsterdam 2008, Cupboard Love Public Art Commission, Greenwich 2008 , and most recently, Impromptu, collaborative group show, Schwartz Gallery London. Work falls into four main categories which encompass the twin strands of both Fine Art Practice and Illustration. My belief is that these activities are able to co-exist in my output. My Illustration work is an attempt to retain and freely pursue my own conceptual ambitions artistically but that the conceptual goals target the intended consequence of the client’s ambition. I am drawn to the marginal and hence subversive nature of supernatural themes, the ideas and symbolism of the occult and it’s association with the more disreputable forms of popular entertainment. Taken from disparate yet analogous influences, works attempt to coalesce in an allusion to invented cultural interpretations of good and evil, heaven and hell, salvation and damnation. Earlier themes have had a palpable reference to the sudo science of Physiognomics. Physiognomics proceeds by analogies, that is, it attempts to identify the features of the face, those traces and marks which reveal the essence, individuating the different characteristics, passions, pathologies, vices and virtues.

Fine Art Graduate of Falmouth College of Arts [1997 – 2000] and subsequent Printmaking Post Graduate of the Royal College of Art [2001-03]. Recent exhibitions have included Tableau Vivant, Aquarium Gallery, Bloomsbury 2007, Terra Extremitas, Multi Disciplinary Event NDSM – Werf Amsterdam 2008, Cupboard Love Public Art Commission, Greenwich 2008 , and most recently, Impromptu, collaborative group show, Schwartz Gallery London.

Work falls into four main categories which encompass the twin strands of both Fine Art Practice and Illustration. My belief is that these activities are able to co-exist in my output. My Illustration work is an attempt to retain and freely pursue my own conceptual ambitions artistically but that the conceptual goals target the intended consequence of the client’s ambition. I am drawn to the marginal and hence subversive nature of supernatural themes, the ideas and symbolism of the occult and it’s association with the more disreputable forms of popular entertainment. Taken from disparate yet analogous influences, works attempt to coalesce in an allusion to invented cultural interpretations of good and evil, heaven and hell, salvation and damnation. Earlier themes have had a palpable reference to the sudo science of Physiognomics. Physiognomics proceeds by analogies, that is, it attempts to identify the features of the face, those traces and marks which reveal the essence, individuating the different characteristics, passions, pathologies, vices and virtues.

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