A series of workshops with Hastings College of Arts and Technology's Supportive Education Sector. The work was shown in the top floor gallery as AKA II at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill on Sea
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Took place at Hollington Youth Centre. The final Videos were shown on the Art Works Image box at Hastings Film Festival in October 2001.
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'The America Ground' was designed by Ray Smith
It was painted by Jon, Susan Elliott, Pete Thompsett and Benjamin Gough
Hastings Town centre was once part of the sea, It was the Saxon and Norman harbour of the rich and important Cinque Port Town of Hastings. The storms of the thirteenth century destroyed the harbourbut over a period of five hundred years, it was gradually transformed into land. This lay empty until 1800, when enterprising merchants built warehouses, rope-walks and dwellings on the former waste beach, which they occupied until 1835.
At some time in this period, the Corporation of Hastings tried to take control of the area. The inhabitants rioted and raised the flag of the United States of America as a symbol of their independence. Hence the area became known as 'THE AMERICA GROUND'.
Every year the Hastings bonfire society passes by and a declaration is made by the town crier. The Declaration celebrates the people of the America Ground and their spirit of independence, determination and good will.
The project was made possible with support from 'Arts & Business New Partners', Hastings & St.Leonards Town Centre Management, HAS Property Management, South east Arts through the 'Year of the Artist' scheme and Hastings Borough Council
Jon led practical workshops atNine Acre School in Charlton, London which caters for young people who have severe learning disabilities.
The Death of Jon's Grandmother (Nan) Doreen Florence Yearley.
Jon kept a picture of Nan in the kitchen of his studio. High Kicks all round
Approximately three years later Doreen's husband Reginald (Poppa) Yearley passed away. The following picture is a still that Jon took from an early family video and circulated.
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Spitalfields, london
An exhibition of work by Phillip Harvey and Jonathan Cole. Jon had got to know Phillip via Caroline and they had spent a lot of time together in Barcelona and afterwards. Jon admired Phillip's painting process and there were several overlaps between each painters approach and methods.
This was the first time we encountered the dramatic Mohammed Ali paintings and the installation of Jon's studio floor, which with its accumulated painterly accretions, bore testimony to Jon's labour.
Jon was involved as a lead Artist in this Art Works project in partnership with Hazel Court Secondary School FE Department and the Causeway school in Eastbourne. Project India provided an opportunity for the Art Works team to work with pupils of secondary school age. The project was named after a Hazel Court pupil called India O'Sullivan.
In these stills, Jon is working with Cherry Laine at Hazel Court School. They are taken from a Project Art Works film made in 2006 by Tim Corrigan. The Project concept, workshops and artistic direction were by Jon, Tim Corrigan, Kate Adams and Caroline LeBreton. The Project began in September 2000 and finished in September 2003. A publication that documented the project was written and designed by Kate Adams and Jon.
Brighton Festival
St Bartholomew's Church Brighton
Jon was keen to show his latest work in the context of a church, especially since he had recently compiled a series of paintings of Jesus called the Santa Maria del Mar Series. The title also happens to be the name of an imposing church in Barcelona. A place that Jon visited on numerous occasions whilst on a travelling scholarship in 1995. This Gothic church is almost devoid of imagery, unusual when compared to Barcelona's other large gothic churches.
In contrast with the church's exterior, the interior gives an impression of light and spaciousness.
Santa Maria Del Mar Series
Jon wrote the following statement for this exhibition:
'Painting has always been about joy and about sorrow.
The Paintings are an investigation of how appearance is influenced by the addition and subtraction of colour.
Painting is a form of representation and the result of accretion. Or. the outcome of an attempt to paint single, flat objects which have an illusory appearance and which may function as immotive areas in space. What becomes apparent is dependant on that space as an idea. Painting for me is somewhere between a bird and a fly'.
“I am very grateful for the opportunity to show in this beautiful church, and would like to thank father Vic and my brother Phil”
Exercise No.7 (a b and c)
He exhibited the following 33 works:
Exercise No.1 and Exercise No.2
Exercise No.4 and Exercise No.6
Exercise No.8 (a and b)
Christopher series ( 3 of the 4 exhibited)
I think that the decision to exhibit 33 paintings was intentional on Jon's part - Philip Cole
