Jonathan works with film, installation, painting and sculpture as a record of movement and emotion through space. He pushes the boundaries of what is normally perceived as architecture and demonstrates how experimental practice can help uncover new strategies for exploring spatial ideas and qualities. Materiality and structure are main considerations, giving way to a deeper understanding of the spaces we navigate on a daily basis. He works with traditional notions of architecture but also with the architecture of the body and the mind. With references to the historical, the biographical and the quotidian, McCree’s work reflects a series of moments, the concept of potential, a space where anything can happen. Exploring lived experience in the body, paint, and painting, serves not only as a visual medium, but as a performative one, a study of the physical across space and time.

Jonathan McCree (b.1963) lives and works in London, England. He holds a BA (Hons) History of Art, University of Sussex. Solo exhibitions include ‘Echoecho’, Sim Smith, London (2023); ‘High Folly’, Sim Smith, London (2021) and ‘I Never Imagined It Could Be Like This’, Foundry Gallery (2021). Group Exhibitions include ‘Stellatundra’, Sim Smith, London (2023); ‘Prospect and Refuge’, Sim Smith, London (2022); ‘Up For Grabs’, APT Gallery, London (2021); Now, Now, Breach Gallery, Miami (2021); ‘Atelier97’, La Spezia, curated by Alessio Guano, Italy (2020) and ‘What Kind of Spirit Is This?’, Sim Smith, London (2019).