Jon Adams' blog
Jon Adams fine art practice draws upon a wide range of materials and processes which include photography, video, sound recording and digital sound and visual manipulation, 3D installations, traditional sculpture and illustration. Jon is currently a Research Fellow in Disability Arts within the Faculty of CCi at the University of Portsmouth. His work includes themes of hidden disability and positive dyslexia and Aspergers awareness combined with a subversive or geological context.
22 July 2011
Well here we go – Open Weekend is here...
After what seems a lifetime of waiting we are here, annoyingly I couldn’t sleep and have woken early – so its Open Weekend at last. It almost feels like I am going to take an exam. All is...Comments: 0
4 March 2011
Jon Adams on the history of the geological themes in his work
I am writing this on the train to Victoria with a long day ahead. The sun is just starting to burn through the fog, relegating it to a thin veil of mist - so I am hopefully of seeing the...Comments: 0
8 February 2011
Jon Adams asks whose fault is it?
There are easy questions, some that’s are harder and maybe those that we just shouldn’t even attempt to answer. As a kid, my father wouldn’t let me have a catapult so I made one....Comments: 0
17 January 2011
Jon Adams: Someone’s had all the flippin mints - part five of five
Another trip to London - this time to the ‘Our view’ presentations that Accentuate had arranged at Channel 4. A seemingly simple trip, just a train and a short walk then the bus almost to...Comments: 0
27 December 2010
Jon Adams: Someone’s had all the flippin mints - part four 'the white rabbit is back in his hutch’
Sunday – another trip to London: Imperial War Museum private view of the Lord Ashcroft gallery. Another simple trip – just a train and a walk, the IWM being within ‘striking’...Comments: 0
21 November 2010
Jon Adams: Someone’s had all the flippin mints - part three of five
Saturday – waking up to London: Presenting at the British Dyslexia Association Educational Conference. I don’t think I will ever get over the shock of first signing autographs. Sure...Comments: 0
12 November 2010
Jon Adams: Someone’s had all the flippin mints’ - part two of five
Reading is an unnatural act: 5 November 'Dyslexia awareness week' A slightly more complex trip as it involved the underground, a new location to find and a stay. Prepared and several maps at hand we...Comments: 0
10 November 2010
Jon Adams: 'Someone’s had all the flippin mints’ - part one of five
Heading home: Tuesday 8 November 'Dyslexia awareness week': I seem to spend more time on trains lately than I did when I was Artist in Residence with a Rail company (I am writing this on...Comments: 1
25 July 2010
Jon Adams creates flag-fields in Chatham
Sunday started misty, the view out over the river was unclear and somewhat like our ‘heads’ due to the excitement of the night before... True the karaoke stopped on time... then came the...Comments: 0
24 July 2010
Jon Adams sets flags flying at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
So its 10:39pm and here I am in a hotel overlooking the river Medway in Kent listening to a strange mix of sirens (same as Portsmouth), the put-put of a river boat and the ‘strangled sounds of...Comments: 0
23 July 2010
Jon Adams organises some beautiful flag-fields for Open Weekend
Just in from a busy but quite fabulous day number ‘one’ of Open Weekend flag fielding alongside the University Staff sports day. Am sitting adding the days pictures to the Facebook groups...Comments: 1
22 July 2010
Jon Adams is looking forwards to the Open Weekend
Open weekend is finally within grasp, just a few hours to go as I sit typing on the train heading back from installing some new work at Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, Kent. I have had...Comments: 0