Jock Mooney
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Jock Mooney is a London-based artist, musician, performer, and sculptor whose unusual work has been described by the BBC as "equal spoonfuls of hilarity and horror."[1] His work has been displayed in several group and solo exhibitions from 2004 to the present.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early
He was born on May 21, 1982, at the Simpson Hospital in Edinburgh to Maureen Mooney and John Mooney - their second son (the first being James Mooney, born 9 January 1980).
[edit] Career
Jock is most well known for his sculptures, installation and drawn works. He graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2004, with a BA (hons) in Sculpture. Since 2004 he has exhibited extensively in a number of countries and is represented by the Newcastle based gallery Vane. His works are in private collections in the UK, Ireland, North and South America, Sweden and Finland.
In 2008 he received individual Arts Council funding to produce his self titled book of Sculptures and Drawings. The 80 page, full colour hardback also features the essay " A Feast of Folly" by artist and writer John Beagles (of Beagles & Ramsay).
Some of Mooney's works have featured on record sleeves (dan le sac vs Scroobius Pip, Isosceles), and he also co-directs music videos with the director Alasdair Brotherston; "Throw Me to the Rats" (2008)[2] and "Bottom of the River" (2009), both for Canadian band Tom Fun Orchestra, and "I go I go I go" (2009) for the Liverpool based band Wave Machines. The latter being their first live action video, meeting critical acclaim and endorsement by Kanye West.[3]
Jock and Alasdair recently signed to the London based production company Trunk[4] for music video and commercial representation.
"Bubblegum", a video directed by the pair, for Liverpool based band Clinic was released in November 2010, the video has gone onto achieve similar festival success and popularity - included in Pictoplasma screenings in Berlin (2010) and New York (2011).
Currently in post production is the highly anticipated Graham Chapman story "A Liar's Autobiography". Working closely with the team at Trunk animation, a seven minute section has been produced for the feature film, which also happens to be in 3D. The feature length film will be comprise of several segments by leading animation companies in the UK and Superfad from the US.
PRINTS
In 2009 a set of 6 lithographic prints (in editions of 15 each) were produced in collaboration with Newcastle based Hole editions. These proved very popular, in particular the work 'Magazine Cover' depicting a portly smoking woman in profile underneath a crudely written 'Vogue' text.
TWENTYEN
Between 2005 - 2010 several songs written by Jock were recorded in collaboration with his brother James Mooney. In 2008 a self released EP of songs was sold through art galleries in the UK. Further rough recordings can be heard on the Twentymen myspace: http://www.myspace.com/twentymenmusic
[edit] Exhibitions
2011
‘Summer Exhibition’, Royal Academy of Arts, London
'Black and White', Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen
‘THE FUTURE CAN WAIT presents: Polemically Small’, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, California, USA
‘Pile’, Chapter, Cardiff
15/11/10 - 26/11/10 'We love New York?', Gallery North, Newcastle upon Tyne
29/10/10 - 28/11/10 'Deadpan', The Royal Standard, Liverpool
13/08/10 - 05/09/10 'Nowhere in Peculiar', Five Hundred Dollars, London
20/07/10 - 15/08/10 'We Love New York?', Broadway Gallery, New York
03/07/10 - 30/08/10
"Based on a True Story", Artsway, Sway, UK.
29/04/10 - 09/05/10
"Exquisite Corpse", Core Gallery, London.
12/02/10 - 20/03/10
'A hell of a fight...' (with John Mooney), Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington
13/11/09 - 19/12/09
"Goblet", Bearspace, London.
28/07/09 - 27/08/09
“LAB”, Jerwood Space, London.
11/07/09 - 03/09/09
“Strange Days & Some Flowers”, Storey Gallery, Lancaster.
02/07/09 - 01/08/09
"A Room Inside Them", Vane, Newcastle Upon Tyne.
24/06/09 - 25/09/09
“Rotate”, Contemporary Art Society, London.
16/01/09 - 21/02/09
“Salon”, Whitecross Gallery, London.
28/11/08 - 10/01/09 'A hell of a fight for the last piece of pudding', Whitecross Gallery, London
13/10/08 - 19/10/08 ‘The Future Can Wait’, The Old Truman Brewery, London
12/09/08 - 19/09/08 'Patti-Lee’, Evolution House, Edinburgh College of Art, Westport, Edinburgh
07/08/08 - 05/09/08 'Jock Mooney' (The Skinny Showcase), Bongo Club, Edinburgh
24/07/08 - 08/08/08 'A Feast of Folly', Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne
16/05/08 - 21/06/08 'Salon', Whitecross Gallery, London
27/03/08 - 30/03/08 Pulse Art Fair, New York
27/03/08 - 26/04/08 'A show withdrawn',Galleri 5, Lund, Sweden
06/03/08 - 16/03/08 'Discontinued', Waygood Gallery (hanging wall space), Newcastle
01/12/07 - 27/01/08 'Emergency 3', Aspex Arts, Portsmouth
26/11/07 - 28/11/07 'Vane Shorts 2', Vane, Newcastle Upon Tyne
22/11/07 - 12/01/08 'Review', Gimpel Fils, London
31/10/07 - 14/11/07 'Play', Bearspace show at Cello Factory, London
25/04/07 - 29/04/07 'Mexico Arte Contemporaneo', Mexico City, Mexico
30/03/07 - 02/04/07 'Circa Puerto Rico', San Juan, Puerto Rico
22/02/07 - 24/03/07 'Funland was no more', solo show, Gimpel Fils, London
07/12/06 - 10/12/06 'Bridge Art Fair', Miami
28/10/06 - 28/11/06 'Greater than ever', Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
28/09/06 - 01/10/06 'Art(212)', contemporary art fair, New York
31/08/06 - 23/09/06 'I wish I had electricity in my fingers then I‘d blast ya' solo show, Vane, Newcastle
12/06/06 - 20/08/06 'Summer Exhibition', Royal Academy, London
08/04/06 'Art Futures Scotland 2006', Glasgow Art Fair. Performance & showcase
09/01/06 - 22/01/06 'Normalife' exhibition, group show, London
26/09/05 - 20/10/05 'Space' - Artist in residence, Rednile Group, Sunderland
01/08/05 - 03/09/05 'Studio Project 4' - Artist in residence & solo show. Market Gallery, Glasgow
04/07/05 –18/07/05 'XL2', Vilnius Dailes Akademija, solo show. Vilnius, Lithuania
28/02/05 –17/06/05 'Out of the Ordinary', Travelling Gallery, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh
27/11/04 – 08/01/05 'Voodoo Shit', Hales Gallery, London
29/09/04 – 14/10/04 'Brave Art' sponsored by Standard Life, The Atrium Gallery, London
10/09/04 – 24/09/04 'Best in Show', the Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh
19/06/04 – 01/07/04 Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A20328644
- ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/filmnetwork/media/shorts/A38265348?size=16x9&bgc=C0C0C0&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&bbram=1
- ^ http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=232495_-1__0_~0_-1_5_2008_0_0&em3161&em3281
- ^ http://www.promonews.tv/2009/06/25/alasdair-jock-sign-to-trunk/
