All These Moments 2023, Mixed Media on Yupo Paper, 121 x 152 cm
Happy Up There
19 September – 29 October 2023
Private view:
Thursday September 21st 6.30 – 8.30 pm
Finissage to be announced
Open Days:
Viewing by appointment at other times
For further information contact Jonathan Ross:
Phone 07747 807576
or jross@gallery286.com
‘Happiness’ — such a hard sell in the art world, so often seen as a trite emotion. Well how about happiness with a streak of nostalgia and a hint of melancholia; add some humour and joy and I’m damned for ever.
A lot of my work is based on the power that objects have to evoke memories and emotions; may it be a firework waiting to be lit, a votive offering, a treasured toy within a reliquary or a loved one.
As a child I used to buy fireworks with my pocket money, weeks before 5th November; I would line them up in my bedroom entranced. The anticipation of sparkling volcanos, rockets ascending to the heavens, fountains of colour and sound. The reality rarely lived up to the exotic patterns of the poorly printed wrappings.
Likewise toys from my childhood placed within the hand reliquaries spark many associations. These images are further enhanced by song lyrics and stream-of-consciousness Text-ures surrounding them and the monumental subjects of the figure paintings.
Some of these figures — are they turned away in rejection or perhaps, more hopefully, inviting us to step into their space and see what they see? In other works their shadows have a life of their own, let loose across the landscape, radiating lines of connection, though where to, is not revealed to us.
These rays have a double life, but to see that, you will need to turn out the lights!
Selected Exhibitions
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Happy Up There” Gallery 286 London
2021 “Reverse Polarity” with Rupert Goldsworthy Stash Gallery London
2019 “Solo’ Judy Chang Fort Lee New Jersey
2016-17 “Cabinet Of The Last Lighthouse Keeper” Paris Koh Fine Art New York City
2013 “My Haven” Tenri cultural Institute, New York City, curated by Dr Thalia V Vrachopoulos
2012 “Wall of Friends” The Church of Agia Eirini Xania
2011 “No More Heroes” Martinos Gallery, Athens, Greece
2009 “Tale of Three Islands” Retrospective Xania Municipal Art Gallery, Crete, Greece
2009 “Tale of Three Islands” Retrospective Ermoupolis Municipal Gallery, Syros, Greece
2008 “I Should Get Out, Moore” Martinos Gallery, Athens, Greece
2007 Ermoupolis Municipal Gallery, Syros, Greece
2005 “Go Cultivate The Garden” Martinos Gallery, Athens, Greece
2003 Ermoupolis Municipal Gallery, Syros, Greece
1999 Gallery K, London, England
1996 Gallery K, London, England
1995 CSK Gallery, Eton, England
1994 Gallery K, London, England
1989 Firka, Xania, Crete, Greece
1988 Christopher Hull, London, England
1987 British Council Galleries, Athens, Greece
1986 Christopher Hull, London, Greece
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Shot Pint Riot”, Studio 1.1, Gallery, London curated by Stephen Harwood
2022. “Every Time We Say Goodbye”, Project Gallery, Athens
“Men Only Animus Anima”, Stash Gallery, curated by Sophie Parkin
2021. “Joy” Stash Gallery, London, curated by Sophie Parkin
2020 “A Horse Walks Into A Bar”, Hampden Gallery UMass Amherst MA USA. Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi
“Pinned, Stiched and Glitzed” Appel Gallery, Athens, Curated by Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos
2019 “Don”t Leave Me This Way” Stash Gallery, London
“Foodie Fever” Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery, NYC,
Curated by Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos and D. Dominick Lombardi
“Apocalypse Then And Now” Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery NYC,
Curated by Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos
“Quest For Holy Grail” Project Gallery, Athens, Greece, Curated by Nikos Giavropoulos
“Don’t Leave Me This Way” Stash Gallery London, Curated by Nicholas Moore
2018 “Transplants: Greek Diaspora Artists” Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery NYC, Curated by Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos
“Prossalendi’s Britannia” – Contemporary Perspective, Ionian Academy, Corfu, Curated by Dr Megakles Rogakos and Georgia Damianou
2017 “Postcards From The Edge” Metro Pictures NYC
“Self Indulgence” Hampden Gallery UMass Amherst MA USA
“Sex and Power” Stash Gallery London UK
“Show Us Your Smalls” Stash Gallery London UK
2016 “TransContinental Nexus” Gallery Donopoulos, Thessaloniki, Greece. Curated by Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos
“Pinned, Stiched and Glitzed” AAW Gallery, Beijing, China
Curated by Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos
“Exquisite Porch” Synovus & Everett Galleries, Morean Arts Center, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA Curated by D. Dominick Lombardi
2015
“Pinned, Stiched and Glitzed” Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery NYC
Curated by Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos
“Dramas On Earth” ChonBuk National University Gallery(CBNU Art Center) Jeon Ju, South Korea
“Welcome, European Hospitality And It’s Borders” Contemporary Art Museum – Olivepress, Chania, Crete.
2014 “Recontextualizing The Found” Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery NYC. Curated by Bill Pangburn and Dr Thalia Vrachopoulos
“The Buffet” Martinos Gallery, Athens, Greece
“The Rule Of Law And The Right To Be Human”, Nikos Kessanlis Exhibition Venue, School Of Art, Athens,Greece
2012 “The Open Mind Of Lefcadio Hearn”, the Nippon Club NYC
2010 “Art and Technology, Man and Machinery”, The Olive Oil Factory, Dromonero Xania
“The Open Mind Of Lefcadio Hearn”, Lefcadio Hearn Memorial Museum Matsue, Japan
2009 The Open Mind of Lefcadio Hearn” ACG Art Center, Athens, Greece
2007 “2021 International Art Fair” with Gallery K, London
2006 “The Angel”, Gallery K, London, England
2004 Three Person Show with Mixalis Makroulakis and Maria Rota, Poseidonias, Syros, Greece
2000 Jonathan Poole Art 2000, London, England
Cynthia Corbett Gallery,London, England
Gallery K, London, England
1997-99 ”Kiss 5 – 7″ in association with Robin Dutt,Gallery K, London, England.
1996 “Kiss 4″ in association with Robin Dutt, Gallery K, London, England.
“Untitled Colours” Washington Hotel, London, England
1995 Gallery K at Art 95, London, England
“Kiss 3″ in association with Robin Dutt, Gallery K, London, England
Jonathan Poole, Compton Cassey Galleries, Gloucestershire, England
CSK Gallery Eton, England
“British Artists in Greece”, Athens
1994 “Kiss 2″ in association with Robin Dutt, Gallery K, London, England
Jonathan Poole at the Riverside Studios, London, England
1993 Bohun Gallery, Henley, England
Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London, England
Gallery K, London, England
1992 Artist’s Choice (chosen by Tom Phillips), Flowers East, London, England
The Gallery at John Jones, London, England
1990 Jill Yakas Gallery, Athens, Greece
1989 Christopher Hull, London, England
Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames, England
1987 Three Person Show with John Craxton, Dorothy Andrews, Vasso Milenoyannis, Xania, Crete, Greece
1984 Christopher Hull, London, England
1982 Mario Flecha, London, England
1981 Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition, London England
“Not The Royal Wedding” Workshop Gallery, London, England
CURATOR
2010 “DFX” Group show Ermoupolis Syros, Greece
2009 2nd Annual show of the Municipal Collection of the Town Hall Ermoupolis Syros, Greece
2019 “Don’t Leave Me This way” Stash Gallery, London, UK
2022 “Every Time We Say Goodbye -” Project Gallery Athens
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Kyveli Institute, Ermoupolis, Greece
Municipal Collection of Syros, Greece
Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης Χανίων – Ελαιουργείον, Greece
Municipal Art Gallery Xania Crete,Greece
Collection of Corfu Heritage foundation, Greece
Collection of The American Collection,Athens
Lefcadio Hearn Museum Matsue, Japan
Click on an image in the gallery below to view full size and move through the collection.
Nothing Is Ever Lost 2023, Mixed Media on Yupo Paper, 154 x 76 cm
Hold Me Tight 2023, Mixed Media on Yupo Paper, 154 x 76 cm
Just Visiting 2021, Mixed Media on Polypropylene Paper, 154 x 76 cm
Searching For Diamonds 2023, Mixed Media on Polypropylene Paper, 89 x 76 cm
You Have Been Here 2023, Mixed Media on wood Panel, 46 x 36 cm
I Wear My Moods 2022, Mixed Media on Printed Paper, 44 x 34 cm
I Count The Hours 2023, Mixed Media on Paper, 14 x 9 cm
Here Comes The Sixth Sun 2023, Mixed Media on Paper, 14 x 9 cm
Warmth Of The Sun 2023, Mixed Media on Paper, 14 x 9 cm
Slow Burning Star 2023, Mixed Media on Paper, 14 x 9 cm
I Could Be Happy 2023, Mixed Media on Paper, 14 x 9 cm
Keeping The Future Safe 2021, Mixed Media on Yupo Paper, 108 x 76 cm
High Above 2023, Mixed Media on Yupo Paper, 54 x 76 cm
I’m Telling Myself 2021, Mixed Media on Japanese Paper, 93 x 45 cm
The Future 2021, Mixed Media on Japanese Paper, 93 x 45 cm
Tell You Something 2021, Mixed Media on Japanese Paper, 93 x 45 cm
Let The Wind Carry Me 2018, Mixed Media on Paper, 93 x 66 cm
Matt And Lucy 2015, Mixed Media On Panel, 60 x 30 cm
Sword Of Damocles 2013, Embossed Copper, 274 x 150 cm
Between A Rock 2013, Embossed Copper And Beads, 170 x 110 cm
