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- Qualifications:BA (Hons) Fine Art - University of Reading
- Position:Senior Lecturer: Illustration
- Department:ACE - Creative and Cultural Industries
- Telephone:+4411732 81456
- Email:Jonathan5.Ward@uwe.ac.uk
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About me
Jonathan Ward is an artist, designer and publisher whose work centres mainly around the bookform and the production of artists’books. He worked for the Dutch artists’book publisher Plaatsmaken for four years before returning to the UK and establishing his own design and publishing company, MakingSpace, which has been trading successfully since 1995. He has exhibited his work and curated group shows in Europe, Mexico and the USA including ‘Inside Cover’ which involved the commissioning of twenty new artists’books by twenty-six European artists and designers. He curated 'HOME' a boxed collection of 50 die-cut home-based visual memories by 50 Illustrators, which won The Birgit Skiöld Trust Memorial Award for excellence in Artists'books. HOME was subsequently bought and exhibited by the V&A as part of the Sky Arts Memory Palace exhibition in 2012. His own work reflects his fascination with childhood memories, his quirky sense of humour and observations on the human condition. He enjoys using a variety of materials and substrates in the production of his publications, especially when they support and enhance the viewer’s tactile and visual reading of the work.
https://www.makingspace-design.com/
Area of expertise
Artists'books, Printmaking, Design, Bookbinding, Illustration, Curation, Collabrative Projects, Education
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