Jonathan
Keep
I
was born and grew up in South Africa, obtaining my BA (Hons)
Fine Art degree from the University of Natal in 1979. After
working in a number of studios and a period of teaching I moved
to England in 1986 and settled in Suffolk where I continue to
live and have a studio at my home. My freethinking approach
to pottery has had me investigating the subject of pots from
a number of viewpoints. In multimedia and virtual reality when
commissioned to produce a CD-ROM in the Insite Arts program,
to a Year of The Artist residency where I worked in collaboration
with patients at two doctors surgeries using the pot as a vehicle
for patients to visualise their medical condition.
I received my MA from the Royal College of Art in 2002, where
my postgraduate show was awarded overall prize-winner of the
Lattice Group Awards. I was subsequently awarded a Woo Foundation
Graduate Arts Bursary. My work has been exhibited widely and
has been seen recently at Collect in the Victoria and Albert
Museum, Network Europe at the Museum of International Ceramic
Art, Denmark, Unexpected Too at Sotheby's in New York, the Carlin
gallery, Paris, Puls gallery, Brussels and Sarah Myerscough
Fine Art, London.
In an artists advisory role I was involved in the Working Party
for the Center for the Visual Arts, Bury St. Edmunds and on
the steering committee of the Visual Arts Marketing & Business
Development Scheme in Suffolk. I have sat on the Advisory Panel
of the Hub Arts Center in North Kesteven and assisted in an
advisory capacity to Platform 5, a professional development
program for emerging artist in the eastern region.
Curriculum
Vitae
1958 Born Johannesburg, S.A
Training
1999 - 2002 MA, Royal College of Art, London.
1976 - 1979 B.A. Fine Arts (Hons) Natal University, S.A.
Experience
2003 - 2004 Working Party, Centre for the Visual Arts, Bury
St Edmunds, Suffolk.
2001 - 2003 Eaton Park Water Feature - Public artwork, Norwich.
2000 - 2005 Specialist Advisory Panel, North Kesteven Arts Unit,
Lincolnshire.
1999 - 2001 INSITE - Commissioned to produce CD-ROM and explore
multimedia technology.
1999 - 2000 Steering Committee, Visual Artist Marketing & Business
Dev Scheme, Suffolk.
1998 Sculpture in Water Meadow Garden (Gold medal), Chelsea
Flower Show.
1994 - 1999 Adviser (Crafts) to Eastern Arts Board.
Awards
2007
Craft Pottery Charitable Trust, Travel Award
2005 Arts Council, Grants for the Arts research and development
award.
2003 Regie Hyne Memorial Award.
2003 Woo Foundation, Graduate Bursary Award.
2002 Overall prizewinner, Lattice Group Awards, The Final Show,
RCA.
2002 The Man Group Drawing Portfolio Prize, RCA. 2001 The Sir
Po-Shing Woo Scholarship, RCA.
2000 Bombay Sapphire Cocktail Glass Award.
1999 Suffolk Craft Society travel award.
1989 First Impressions promotion Award, East of England Arts.
Residences
2008
- 2009 AA2A Residence, University Campus Suffolk, Ipswich.
2008 Ebb & Flow, Artist in Residence, Sailors Path Suffolk.
2002 Network Europe, Museum of International Ceramic Art, Denmark.
2000 - 2001 Year of the Artist Residency, Leiston and Aldeburgh
Surgeries, Suffolk.
1998 Six schools artist in residence project, Suffolk County
Council Education.
1997 Potter in residence, Arts in Rural Norfolk.
1996 Artist in residence, Stowupland High School, Suffolk.
1991 Potter in residence, Ipswich Museum.
Talks,
Lectures and Workshops Presented
2009
Lecture and workshop, Cape potters association, South Africa.
2007 Presentation - Digital Media and Physical Form, Denmark.
2003 Workshop - The International Ceramic Work Centre, Skaelskor,
Denmark.
2003 Lecture - 'Art in Health', Royal College of general Practitioners,
East Anglia Faculty.
2003 Illustrated talk showing portfolio and working practice
to London Potters.
2001 Lecture - 'Virtual Pots', The Pearoom Centre for Contemporary
Craft, Lincolnshire.
2001 Lecture - 'Virtual Reality and the Imagination', Form and
Content Conference, London.
2002 Panelist - 'The Artistic Kitchen', Sainsbury Centre for
Visual Arts, Norwich.
1999 Illustrated presentation to MA Visual Practice Course,
Suffolk College, Ipswich.
1998 Illustrated presentation to MA in Gallery Studies Course,
University of Essex, Colchester.
Selected
Exhibitions
2009
'Vessel', Sarah Myerscough Fine Arts, London.
2009 'Parameters', resident artists', The Waterfront Gallery,
University Campus Suffolk.
2009 Solo exhibition, 'Drawings, prints and pots', The Cut,
Halesworth, Suffolk.
2007 'Ceramic Art London', Royal College of Art, London.
2007 'Collect Art Fair', V&A, London. Represented by Sarah Myerscough
Fine Arts.
2006 Jonathan Keep and Merete Larsen, Carlin Gallery, Paris.
2006 Jonathan Keep and Barbro Åberg, Puls Contemporary Ceramics,
Brussels.
2006 'Aldeburgh Festival 2006' group show, Strand Gallery, Aldeburgh,
Suffolk.
2006 'Collect Art Fair', V&A, London. Represented by Sarah Myerscough
Fine Arts.
2005 Jonathan Keep and Margaret Mellis, Strand Gallery, Aldeburgh,
Suffolk.
2005 'Collect Art Fair', V&A, London. Represented by Sarah Myerscough
Fine Arts.
2004 Jonathan Keep and Ellen Schöpf, Carlin Gallery, Paris.
2004 Group Exhibition, The Warehouse, Lowestoft, Suffolk.
2004 'Intimacy', Sarah Myerscough Fine Arts, London.
2004 'Collect Art Fair', V&A, London. Represented by Sarah Myerscough
Fine Arts.
2003 'What is Craft', British Contemporary Craft, The Hub, Sleaford,
Lincs.
2003 'Network Europe', Museum of International Ceramic Art,
Middelfart, Denmark.
2003 'Contemporary Decorative Arts', Sotheby's, London.
2003 'Unexpected Too - contemporary applied arts', Sotheby's,
New York.
2004 'Drawn Together', Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery, Suffolk.
2005 'Recent Drawings', Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk.
2002 'Kettle's Yard Open', Cambridge.
2002 'Ceramic Contemporaries 4', London, Wrexham, Glasgow, Aberystwyth.
2002 'Five Alive', Wolsey Art Gallery, Ipswich.
2000 'Newton Showcases', Bonington Gallery, Nottingham Trent
University.
2000 'Window Show', Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, UEA, Norwich.
1999 'Artist in focus', Harley Gallery, Welbeck, Nottinghamshire.
1999 Collaborative instillation with Les Bicknell, Angel Row
Gallery, Nottingham.
1999 'Earthness', Solo Exhibition, The Pearoom Centre for Contemporary
Craft.
1999 'Sticks', Southern Arts Touring Exhibition.
1998 'Life Forces', Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery.
1998 'On The Border', Suffolk and Essex open, Minories Colchester.
1997 'Earthworks', Mid Pennine Gallery, Burnley.
1995 'Fletcher Challenge Ceramic Award Exhibition', Auckland.
1995 'Bridging Cultures', Northern Arts Touring.
1995 'Cultural Connections', Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery.
1994 - 1997 Exhibited at Chelsea Crafts Fair.
1994 'Studio Ceramics 94', Victoria & Alberts Museum.
1990 Eastern Arts Touring Exhibition, Norwich, Ipswich, Koblenz.
1989 First Impressions, Touring five National Trust properties.
1983 Solo Exhibition, Jack Heath Gallery, University of Natal.
Collections
Corrobric
Collection - Natal University, S.A.
Durban Art Gallery, S.A.
Eastern Arts Board - Cambridge.
Lattice Group - London.
Margate Art Gallery, Natal, S.A.
Mayer Brown - London.
Museum of International Ceramic Art - Denmark.
North Kesteven District Council - Lincs.
Norwich Castle Museum.
Stowupland High School - Suffolk.
Thatham Art Gallery - Pietermaritzburg, S.A.
University Campus Suffolk - Ipswich.
Publications
'Contemporary
Ceramics' Emmanuel Cooper, Thames & Hudson, 2009.
'More access to art colleges' AN Magazine, July/August 2009.
'Market Forces' Ceramic Review Magazine, July/Aug 2008 Issue
232.
'Breaking the Mould: New approaches to Ceramics, Barnard/Daintry/Twomey,
Black Dog publishing, 2007.
'Åberg and Keep at Puls Gallery' Ceramic Art and Perception,
2007 Issue 67.
'Pots not pills' Ceramic Review Magazine, Jan/Feb 2005 Issue
211.
'The Language of Pots' Ceramic Review Magazine, Jan/Feb 2002
Issue 193.
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