I'm really looking forward to exhibiting again at Artweeks. My exhibition will again be in our home which I love doing in Charlbury. I'll have a selection of framed prints but also some of the work I do in the music industry for different bands and festivals.
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Artist Statement
I’m really interested in the edges of memory within my work, the way that memories fragment and merge and fade as time moves on and I get older. The way my mind plays tricks and confuses things, merging memories poetry and lyrics. I‘m interested in the way a place or memory makes me feel, the joy of the moment that is fleeting, something I endeavour to convey in my use of mark making and colour within each of my silk screen prints.
Jon Mackay Artist CV
2011 – present – artwork and printmaking for a wide variety of clients in the music industry.
2016 – The Lumineers Cleopatra World Tour – commissioned to produce 3 silk screen prints for the bands’ world tour in celebration of their second album.
2016 - 2019 – Oxfordshire Art weeks summer exhibition.
2018 - Dr Martens painting commission for their Oxford store in the Westgate Shopping Centre.
2021 - Jack Savoretti commissions - a range of silk screen prints and the limited edition cover of Europiana for Amazon which went to No. 1 in the charts.
2022 – Johnny Flynn and Robert Macfarlane screen print commission for their ‘Lost in the Cedar Wood’ tour.
2022 – My print ‘On the Road to Find Out’ was purchased for use in the latest series of Doctor Who.
2022 – Wilderness festival / Live Nation – artwork and screen prints commissioned for the festival which were used in a wide range of locations from The London Underground through to billboard advertising.
2023 – Hepworth Wakefield Print Fair.
2023 – Beaumont Hotel, London – commissioned by Zuleika Gallery to produce 4 silk screen prints for the Presidential Suite at this Mayfair Hotel.
2023 – Compton Verney Print Fair
2023 – Oxfordshire Artweeks summer exhibition
2023 – Branch Arts Christmas Exhibition, Charlbury, Oxfordshire.
2023 – 10 Years of prints for Bear’s Den, Union Chapel London.
2023 – Music on Nature, screen print commission for Robert Macfarlane and Simon Armitage among others.
2023 - present – Celestial – Group Print Exhibition, Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds.
2024 - The Hepworth Wakefield Print Fair
2024 - Printfest, Ulverston
2024 - Download Festival Artwork and screen print