We are delighted to announce that Jonathan has selected as one of a number of artists for the Situation Leeds project JUNCTION.

What is JUNCTION?

JUNCTION is a series of temporary commissions for Leeds City centre utilising the ubiquitous `junction box` as its canvas. Everyday we walk by these neglected metal boxes without a second thought, but now JUNCTION offers artists and designers the chance to transform these tired boxes into vibrant, intriguing and humorous interventions in street life.
Where?

All the identified boxes lie in the town centre; they form a trail that starts outside Leeds Train Station, go up Park Row, ending at the crossroads of Park Row and the Headrow, adjacent to the Henry Moore Institute and Leeds Art Gallery.

This is the first step in Situation Leeds’ commitment to raise the public art profile of the city. Over the next few years we hope to widen the JUNCTION project to other sites across the city and identify other exciting opportunities to work creatively with the urban fabric of the city centre. We believe that `the everyday`, could be a lot more intriguing, and we see JUNCTION as a first step to attract interest, support and sponsorship for further creative public realm projects that will make walking round Leeds City Centre more interesting, extraordinary and pleasurable.

Gallery 13 seen here installed as part of the Time|Motion exhibition.

Gallery 13 is now back on show in gallery 20 at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. 7 years after it was originally commissioned, shot, exhibited and subsequently acquired for the Museums collection.

Upon entering the car park to mac you will notice a large scale photograph adorning the temporary hoardings. This piece of work has been commissioned by Calthorpe Estates during the development of the Edgbaston Mill project in association with mac.

The installation is due to be completed early next week.

The publication of (re)collect coincided with the exhibition of Jonathan Shaw’s work at Leeds Met Gallery.

Title: (re)collect – Jonathan Shaw
Publisher: Pavilion
Date: February 2006
ISBN: 0-9544775-2-9
RRP: £16.00

The catalogue includes a foreword written by Debra Klomp, director of Pavilion and essays by Jean Baird, senior lecturer in Theory and Practice of Photography at Nottingham Trent University and Peter Ride, co-director and senior research fellow at the Centre for Arts Research Technology and Education (CARTE), University of Westminster and artistic director of DA2, Digital Arts Development Agency.

The catalogue is a 48 page, full colour publication in hardback. It combines existing and newly commissioned work, installation photographs, video stills and intriguing full scale details from the Victoria Gardens, 22nd October 2005 and Gallery 13, 10th August 2002.
Design by Darren Ching, creative director of Photo District News, New York.

(re)collect – Jonathan Shaw is published in association with Leeds Met Gallery and Coventry University.

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Making of Victoria Gardens in Leeds, UK
(re)collect Jonathan Shaw Friday 20 January – Saturday 25 February 2006 Preview Thursday 19 January, 6-8pm

The latest exhibition at Leeds Met Gallery brings together previous work and two new commissions in a stunning collection by photographic artist Jonathan Shaw.

Jonathan Shaw has developed specific technological solutions to explore the themes of time and motion by building his own mechanically driven cameras. These have enabled him to escape the physical limitations of the studio and capture and create new expressions of time and motion, photographing his subjects with and in relationship to their environments.