Jonathan Miles

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Jonathan Miles is a tutor in Critical & Historical Studies and Fine Art research; a writer both of theoretical essays and fiction; as well as being a painter.

Biography
Jonathan Miles has exhibited in White Columns (New York), Venster Museum (Rotterdam), Gallery House, Riverside Gallery, Civic Room, Lychee One and DomoBaal Gallery (all London). He studied at Slade School of Art (1969–73) and in the early 1980s, he was the London Editor of ZG Magazine (London and New York). Recent publications include catalogue essays for Enrico David, Haris Epaminonda, Daniel Cramer, Akiko Takizawa, Mustafa Hulusi, Lu Chao, Tian Zhu, Celia Hempton, Bai Ming, Miho Sato, Philip Caramazza, Ailbhe Ní Bhriain and texts for Material Magazine (Los Angeles) and Undo (Cyprus). He is on the Editorial Board of Material Magazine, Los Angeles.

Practice
Jonathan Miles’ exhibitions invariably consist of a combination of short stories combined with a series of paintings. Fiction is employed as a means of disturbing the subject position of the paintings in ways that do not allow the spectator to settle on any given truth.
Jonathan Miles has recently been working on two main projects. The first is a work called Addiction: Exscription consists of a short novel (50,000 words) and a series of a thousand small paintings. Each of the two components could be understood as a single entity but equally they might be considered as being linked. The second stage of this project will involve the construction of a body of work that emerges from the two main fictional characters of the novel.

The second project is a series of small reliefs that have a fictional setting in the 1930s. Stylistically, they combine both Art Deco and Constructivist rhetoric without being either. Aesthetically, they might be understood as impossible objects, strange exiles of a world that never materialised.
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Research students
JJ Charlesworth, Dionea Rocha Watt, Brigit Connolly, Isobel Wohl, JJ Charlesworth, Giorgos Kontis, Kyung Hwa Shon, Kwan Kiu Leung, Georgios Kontis, Pauline van Mourik Broekman, Samatha Rebello, Paulo Giudici, Joanna Rojkowska, Yifei He

DomoBaal 2007, A grid of 24 paintings

DomoBaal 2007, A grid of 24 paintings
Working Rooms: Prison, 2009

Working Rooms: Prison, 2009
Lychee One: 1000 Paintings, 2015

Lychee One: 1000 Paintings, 2015
Lychee One: Grids, 2017

Lychee One: Grids, 2017
Aporia 5, Jonathan Miles

Aporia 5, Jonathan Miles
Untitled paintings, Jonathan Miles

Untitled paintings, Jonathan Miles