Statement:
The theme of Jonathan’s work is landscape, expressing awe at the overpowering force of nature, juxtaposed against its fragility and stillness. His works alight on details that usually pass us by: uneven, weathered stone textures, cracks in rocks and dry earth, moving grass and trees, drips revealing the passage of time: the simplicity and elegance of nature. Jonathan draws upon journeys, in the interplay between the experience and memory of the natural world, revealing conflicting ideas of intimacy and enormity, familiarity, mystery, fragility and power. Jonathan’s work explores issues of personal identity in a collective society, in particular he examines places where history is written in the landscape.

Rivesaltes Project:
A place between the Mediterranean and the mountains, just a few miles from Perpignan, on the edge of a motorway. A place left to remind us of the Holocaust. From this camp in Rivesaltes thousands were sent to Auschwitz and on this land thousands were abandoned to die.

This video depicts a walk through the ruined buildings and across the undergrowth of this camp where many have walked before under desperate circumstances. Beautiful images belie a dark history. The natural sound of footsteps has been distorted to evoke the sense of disquiet.

‘Rivesaltes (Shoah)’ is a journey exploring this land, its clandestine history and the artist’s heritage.

Biography

Jonathan Moss was born in UK and currently has his studio in the south of France. He trained in fine art at the University of Wales and then at the Royal College of Art, where he specialised in printmaking.

Jonathan has exhibited widely participating in shows at the Burlington New Gallery (1994), The Portobello Prize Exhibition at the Tabernacle Gallery (1994), Ferens Gallery Hull (1994), The Mall Galleries (‘Discerning Eye’, 1995), the Museum of Modern Art Wales (1995), The Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University (2000), Glasgow International Art Fair (2006), ArtSway (2006), the Video Art Gallery (2007) and South Hill Park Arts Centre in Berkshire (2008).

Education
2006: Royal College of Art, London, PEP, Department of Printmaking
1995 – 1996: PGCE Oxford University
1991–1993: MA in Fine Art and Art History The University of Wales
1988–1991: BA Honours degree in Fine Art, The University of Wales

Solo Exhibitions
• La Mals, Sochaux, France (Nov 2006)
• Espace d’Art, Rennes-les-Bains, France (2005)
• Domus II, Perpignan, France (2004, 2003)
• Jonathan Moss: Works on Paper, The Strang Print Room, University College of London (1998)
• Contemporary Stance, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham (1996)

Group Exhibitions
• Forthcoming: "Punctum", The Video Art Gallery, London (Dec 2007)
• Forthcoming: "Surveillance" South Hill Park, Berkshire (Dec 2007)
• Screening: Optica International Festival of Video Art, Gijon, Spain (Nov 2007)
• Screening: Inside Out, Signals 5, London (Sept 2007)
• One Minute International Fillm Festival, Aarau, Switzerland (Aug 2007)
• Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece (2007)
• Art Video Screening, Vasteras, Sweden (2007)
• Izolenta International Digital Festival, St Petersberg (2007)
• Loop Pool at the 53rd Short film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany (2007)
• ArtSway (2006)
• Saltburn Artists Projects (2006)
• Glasgow International Art Fair (2006)
• Dublin Art Fair (2005)
• Rentrée, Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University, London (2000)
• Fairfax Gallery, Tunbridge Wells (1996)
• The Oxford Gallery, Oxford (1996, 1995)
• The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London (1995)
• These Enchanted Woods, Museum of Modern Art Wales, Machynlleth (1995)
• The Spectator 7th National Art Award, Images of the Earth, Sotheby’s, London and the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (1994)
• Summer Exhibition, Burlington New Gallery, London (1994)
• Grande Exposition de Printemps, Forum des Halles, Paris (1994)
• Ferens Gallery, Hull (1994)
• Tabernacle Gallery, London (1994)

• Screening at Optica, The Gijon International Festival of Video Art (Nov 2007)
• Screening at "Inside Out", Signals 5, London (Sept 2007)
• One Minute International Film Festival Aarau, Switzerland (August 2007)
• Screening at Festival Miden, Kalamata, Greece (July 2007)
• Pocket Film Festival, Olhares, Lisbon (June 2007)
• The Video Art Gallery Screening, MTR Studio 23, London (2007)
• Art Video Screening, Västerås, Sweden (May 2007)
• Screening at Izolenta International Digital Film Festival 2007, St Petersburg, Russia (May 2007)
• 'Loop pool' at the 53rd International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany (May 2007)

COMMISSIONS AND COLLECTIONS
The Royal College of Art, Musée Juif de Belgique, La MALS Sochaux, Hertfordshire County Council, BAS Printers Ltd printers of art books, National Library of Wales, University of Wales. Aberystwyth, Collège Ponsard Vienne, France, IGER the Welsh Plant Breeding Station. Work in private collections in Europe, Japan, Canada and the USA.