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Bal'lick Tower - Jon Spencer
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This new work explores the relationship between Erno Goldfinger’s famous Trellick Tower in West London and it’s older, slightly smaller and less well known sibling, Balfron Tower in the East. Parallel views of an alternative, mythical tower and surrounding landscape are offered where east and west meet as glimpsed through the gaps between buildings as a circular route is picked around the tower(s). A small publication was produced to accompany this series, for Jon's recent Visible City.
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Visible City - Jon Spencer
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A solo exhibition showing a range of Jon's work held at The Gallery, Cowcross Street, London EC1. Full details at visiblecityexhibition.tumblr.com.
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Bethnal Green - Jon Spencer
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As part of the Intersection. Show I put on with Oliver Woods. We walked a defined area centred on the exhibition venue, Oxford House. I was struck by the junctions between widely different building typologies and engineering forms. The area's rich and elaborate history combined wight he very specific effect of several railway lines cutting through the area at high level, create moments of great energy and tension at these junctions.
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Article 31.1 - Jon Spencer
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As a part of the programme of events for the London Festival of Architecture 2012, members of the Article 31.1 collective, including Jon Spencer, designed and built a giant board game. The purpose of the game was to encourage participants to find new, playful ways to engage with the city of London. These are a selection of Jon's images recording the preparation of the game and the various events we organised or joined in over the course of the Festival.
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La Passeggiata - Jon Spencer
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I come, in part, from an Italian background, and am lucky enough to visit family in the north of Italy from time to time. The Italian art of the passeggiata. The leisurely stroll - is a wonderful habit, and something else, on the more wistful side, that informs my practice. These images were taken on such leisurely strolls.
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The London Outline - Jon Spencer
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This live project explores the ways in which London’s skyline is adopted, stylised and reimagined by designers. The Visible City exhibition featured a number of large format electrostatic transfer prints produced for the exhibition (shown here), while a set of screen prints will be produced in the near future. The associated blog containing the original collection can be found at londonoutline.tumblr.com. A1 Electrostatic Transfer Prints in a limited edition of 10 available for 20 from my easy shop.
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Bandstands - Jon Spencer
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Jon Spencer has created photographs that are ethereal, at once very specific and yet so universal that the connection with the viewer is multifarious. The bandstands are indeed silent sentinels , but they also call out ever so majestically. Debra Klomp Ching, The Klompching Gallery, New York, writing in Troika Editions. Work in this series is generally available for sale in the following formats:. 59 x 42cm (A2) archival inkjet prints in a limited edition of 25. Video by Troika Editions.
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Faces - Jon Spencer
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A myriad range of busts adorn many neo-classical buildings, sometimes depicting the great and the good, individuals relevant to the building's owners or nameless figures there simply as a motif. I'm interested in the idea that these figures have their own memories - gathered over the years they've spent perched above the streets and pavements, ignored by most passers-by, but with little choice but to remain ever watchful. This project is currently in development, a few sketch images are show below.
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Robots - Pencil & Help
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Pencil and Help /. We were commissioned by Bow Arts to assist the year 4 students in creating giant robots to decorate the adjacent corridor to their classrooms. A combination of collage, drawing, paper-cuts and collaborative groupwork went into creating these fantastically imaginative machines. A selection of the most appropriate were enlarged and printed onto vinyl, whilst relief elements, made from laser cut MDF enhanced the display. Photography by Jon Spencer. Two Heads Are Better Than One.