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Jonathon Brown
born: Edinburgh, 17.v.1955
artist, stage-designer and writer/broadcaster;
since 1992 lives in the hills north of Nice.
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selected exhibitions | installations/décors | stage
words
books | & broadcasting | & writing
Portrait as Putto,
using the camera lucida; 2001
©DavidHockney
schooling
The Edinburgh Academy
Pembroke College, Cambridge - Moral Sciences Tripos
selected exhibitions
(invité indicates participation in a group show; t.b.a. means ‘to be announced’)
· Mes Sept Merveilles, Musée international d'Art naïf, Nice; May 2010
The show culminates in the 5th European "Nuit des Musées" on 15th May.
· Quatre "RoadMovies", Musée international d'Art naïf, Nice; November 2009
The pictures accompanied the school project "Le Grand Mur".
· The Scrolls, Salle des Gardes, Vieux Château, Gréoux-les-Bains; August 2009
· Black Paper Drawings, The Boat Club, Aberdour, for the Aberdour Festival; August 2009
· Meltdown Magic, The Jazz Attic, St. Antonin, Lorgues, Var (France); Summer 2009
· New Scroll Paintings, The Europe Gallery, European Commission, London; 25th November to 5th December 2008
· Nietzsche über Eze, Philosophy Faculty Library, University of Cambridge; 2007
The new picture for the Faculty Library was unveiled during Alumnus Weekend, 26/28th September.
· Chemin de la Croix vu des Yeux de Jésus, à l'église de Duranus; fête de St Michel, 2007
· Sorbet! Sorbet!!, Domaine Grand Cros, Var, France; Summer 2007
· L'Esprit de l'Entente cordiale, Marseille, France; Spring, 2007
· Stations of the Cross as from the Eyes of Jesus, Church of St Andrew's Fulham Fields, London; Lent, 2007
The first showing of the 21 canvases.
· All that jazz..., The Jazz Attic, St Antonin, Lorgues, Var, France; March 2005
· Capri Caprices, Barry Stern Gallery, Sydney; August/September 2004
This was Jonathon’s début show with his Sydney gallery, following his first Australian show a year before in Adelaide.
· The Scottish Riviera, Greenhill Gallery, Adelaide; June/July 2003
· RoadMovies, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; May/July 2002
· Invité d'Honneur, Mouvement des Arts, Hyères; 15-18.ii.2002
· Tjugo-tjugo (Swedish for Twenty-Twenty);
Galerie Tråman, Jönjöping & Rackargården, Kalmar, Sweden; 2001
· Recent Series Paintings, The Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh; ix.2000
· Musiciens de la Mer (invité), Musée international d'Art naïf, Nice; vi/x.2000
· Målningar & Skulpturer, Galerie Carl International, Torskinge, Sweden; v.2000
· Ripolins, Galerie Ecuador, Nice; xi.1999
· Une petite Grande Retrospective des Années en France,
Vieux Château du Bar-sur-Loup, Alpes Maritimes, France; vii. 1999
installations/décors
· Au Bonheur du Pied, shoe shop in Paris, 2004
· Top Vacences — Occelli Immobilier; Nice, 1998
· Calexico, Restaurant Mexicain; Vieux Nice, 1998
stage
· Les Caprices de Marianne; Henri Sauguet/de Musset, l'Opéra National de Bordeaux; t.b.a.
· Deux de Duras; Cambodia, July 2006
· La Folie Tristan; Opéra de la Péniche, Paris; 1996
· A Celebration of Humour; Théatre des Variétés, Monte Carlo; 1995
· Walton's Façade; Nicolson, Cassandra's Death (world première); Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Festival; 1989
· Mozart : Bastien & Bastienne; for Mario di Gregorio, Darwin College, Cambridge; 1979
books...
· I Don't Know Much About Art But I Know David Hockney; published by Mer Publishing; 2007
· RoadMovies — First Stop; published by the Talbot Rice Art Gallery & the University of Edinburgh; v.2002
· Le Destin des Lévriers — an English translation from the French of Xavier Przezdziecki ; x.2001
· Puccini; Brahms; Debussy — three lives, Pavilion Books, London; Simon & Schuster, New York; 1995/96
& broadcasting:
· A History of the Squiggle; 'Twenty Minutes' interval talk for the BBC Radio Three 2008
· Step on it... A History of the Piano Pedal; 'Twenty Minutes' interval talk for BBC Radio Three 2005
· Opera Box; J.B. joined Christopher Cook [for Die Walküre from the Proms] and Stephanie Hughes [for Siegfried & Götterdämmerung from Covent Garden] during all the intervals in the dispersed BBC Radio Three direct broadcasts of Wagner's Ring Cycle; 2005/2006
· Hearing the light...; an artist's eye's appreciation of the visuals in Wagner's stage directions: an interval talk during the second interval of the BBC Radio Three broadcast of Tristan und Isolde from Glyndebourne, Saturday 7th June, 2003
· Shelf Life — the Potterings of a Classical Collector, Riviera Radio, at Radio Monte Carlo; a series of weekly three-hour programmes;1995-1997
& writing:
· J.B. in The Spectator; on W.G.Sebald, October 2007
· J.B. in The Herald; on David Hockney's "Portraits" at the Boston MFA, April 2006
· J.B. on the European Commission's website; a variety of articles on music & art, 2005-
· An Artist at the Opera; a series of articles for BBC Music Magazine started in March 2003, about artists who have designed sets for opera and ballet; the magazine has run other whimsical articles including “OTT” and “OOPS”; in February 2004 will appear an article about what music to play in the car, complete with a cartoon of JB...
· previous writing: regular contributions to Times Literary Supplement, “Commentary”, 1983-92; Scotland on Sunday, opera & music correspondent, 1989-92; BBC Radio Scotland; adam; International Record Review; BBC Music Magazine; Music & Musicians &c.
Self-Portrait as China Cat...