My practice is rooted in lived experience, shaped by the contradictions of growing up in a northern industrial town. Environments marked by collapse and renewal, secrecy and survival, continue to inform my interest in fractured identities, unstable structures, and the hidden systems that shape everyday life.
I work across sculpture, built installations, and moving image. Using both analogue and digital processes, I examine the space between reality and simulation. I’m drawn to transitional forms: breathing inflatables, glitching images, architectural fragments. These works act as both set and subject, creating spaces for the viewer to inhabit and navigate. In Looking for Myself, I used AI tools to generate multiple versions of my face, questioning how machines interpret identity. Other works build immersive, filmic environments where materials seem to breathe, collapse, or withhold.
I’m currently developing new work that explores the tension between natural and synthetic materials. Inflatables, sound, and sensor-triggered motion are all part of this direction. Collaboration is increasingly important in my process, particularly with musicians, coders, and those working in physical computing.
My work has been exhibited at the Barbican Centre, V&A Museum, BFI, Serpentine Gallery, and other institutions. I co-founded the artist collective Executive Chair, which explored the rituals of work, finance, and structural failure through critical and playful installations.
As environmental and social systems continue to destabilise, I see sculpture as a way to hold space for reflection, disruption, and transformation.
I work across sculpture, built installations, and moving image. Using both analogue and digital processes, I examine the space between reality and simulation. I’m drawn to transitional forms: breathing inflatables, glitching images, architectural fragments. These works act as both set and subject, creating spaces for the viewer to inhabit and navigate. In Looking for Myself, I used AI tools to generate multiple versions of my face, questioning how machines interpret identity. Other works build immersive, filmic environments where materials seem to breathe, collapse, or withhold.
I’m currently developing new work that explores the tension between natural and synthetic materials. Inflatables, sound, and sensor-triggered motion are all part of this direction. Collaboration is increasingly important in my process, particularly with musicians, coders, and those working in physical computing.
My work has been exhibited at the Barbican Centre, V&A Museum, BFI, Serpentine Gallery, and other institutions. I co-founded the artist collective Executive Chair, which explored the rituals of work, finance, and structural failure through critical and playful installations.
As environmental and social systems continue to destabilise, I see sculpture as a way to hold space for reflection, disruption, and transformation.
Artist CV available here
jonathan [at] jonathanmunro.com