BOOK LAUNCH: Sat 13th Sept 2025 Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool.
Join the artists of the Material Matters Collective at Open Eye Gallery for the launch of Into the Wyld: Reimagining Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: the official catalogue of their acclaimed 2024 residency at the Williamson Art Gallery.
Independent visual arts newsletter The Blue Landscape has published an article by John in which he argues for a re-setting of the curatorial relationship with artists.
In summer 2024 John will exhibit at and co-curate Into the Wyld a contemporary art residency at the Williamson Art Gallery from the Material Matters Collective.
Several works by John have been featured in a remarkable new novel from the Norwich-based writer and composer Michael John Gerard Higgins, due for publication next month.
2023 had been a long year. But a decade of intense and highly varied creative work had also led to major storage problems in my studio, a shameful decline in the studio environment and a practical impasse on making work at scale. With a very busy 2024 ahead it became clear it needed more than a lick of paint…