Jonathan Armstrong

I am an artist, print maker and sculpture born in 1964, London. Completing a BA in Fine Art at Newcastle Polytechnic in the mid 1980’s, focusing on sculpture. Following a successful career as a commercial art director I returned to art education in 2019 completing a Masters Degree in Fine Art with distinction at Winchester School of Art under the stewardship of Programme Leader and artist Nick Steward.

Influenced by Doris Salcedo, Jannis Kounellis, Mark Dion, Andy Warhol and the artworks of Robert Rauchenburg with his notion of the ready made or “Gifts from the Streets”, as Rauchenburg called it, in making art. Old newspaper articles, abandoned mattresses and domestic relics become charged with significance and saturated with meaning. The unwanted, redundant and obsolete have become my obsessions, like fragments of time, measured, catalogued and immortalised. My photographs, collages, prints and schematic assemblages transform these obsolescent items into poignant and commanding testimonies of loss and remembrance. I hope by cataloguing the things we throw away, to draw attention to the environment we live in, while asking the viewer to reconstruct stories, sparking memories that question the fragility of their own life.

2019 - 2020
Master of Arts in Fine Art with distinction
University of Southampton (Winchester School of Art).

2016 - 2017
City & Guilds Level 3 Award in Education and Training
City Literacy Institute. London.

1983 - 1986
BA (Hons) Fine Art
Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic. Newcastle.

1981 - 1983
DATEC Diploma General Art
& Design & A’ Level Graphic Design
Hounslow Borough College. London.

2024 - October
The Other Art Fair, London

2024 - March
The Other Art Fair, London

2023 - June
The Other Art Fair, London

2022
New River Studios.
Fashion Is Art - The Exhibition

2021
Willsden Art Gallery.
Restore, Renew, Reimagine Group Show

2021
Art number 23.
New Era Group Exhibition - Online

2020
Kings House.
Competion & Exhibition - Online semi finalist

2020
MA Final Show.
Winchester School of Art

2020
MABA Show.
Winchester School of Art

2019
LIFT - New art by BA & MA Fine Art students.
Winchester School of Art

1987
Riverside Studios Group Show.
Riverside Studios, Hammersmith

1986
BA Degree Show.
Newcastle Upon Tyne Polytechnic