Aspects of Edgerton, Sunday 22 August, 2pm – FREE
Unit 39-40, The Pallasades Shopping Centre
An Ikon Gallery event with Jonathan Shaw, photographer and Associate Head of Media & Communication, Coventry University and artist Trevor Appleson. The speakers discuss the influence of Edweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton’s photography on their recent work.

Full details of the exhibition can be found here on the Ikon Gallery website.

Refreshments are provided. Places are free but should be reserved by calling Ikon on 0121 248 0708.

Jonathan has been invited by Pete James, Head of Photographs at Birmingham Central Library and Ikon Gallery to talk about his work and its relationship to the pioneering work of Harold Edgerton. This new show pays reference to their first exhibition of his held in 1976. This was in fact the first European solo exhibition by the pioneering American scientist and photographer Dr Harold E. Edgerton.

I will post some more when I have some further information.

Talk by Jonathan Shaw
Photographing Time
Saturday 3rd April, 2pm, Estorick Collection, London

Jonathan has been invited to talk as part of On the Move exhibition curated by Jonathan Miller at the Estorick Collection. All are welcome, the more the merrier!

Jonathan will be talking about his ideas, work and encounters with the masters of Time and Movement within photography with particular reference to the work of Eadweard Muybridge and Harold Edgerton.

Animated sequence of a buffalo (American bison) galloping. Photos taken by Eadweard Muybridge, first published in 1887 at Philadelphia (Animal Locomotion). Animation by Waugsberg, 2006-7-16.	Bullet through banana, 1964, photograph by Dr. Harold Edgerton

Miller shows us more than just photographs and paintings in this show. This is one of the reasons why it is so appealing. He keeps on nudging us, encouraging us to think more widely, to think about how what Muybridge and others did had an impact on art, photography, books, film, the theatre. Didn’t Busby Berkeley’s gorgeous choreography, all that brilliant sequencing of movement, owe a debt to what Muybridge discovered? And didn’t Berkeley’s choreography also remind us of the way in which Cubism broke up the human figure? Yes, and yes again. Undoubtedly.

To read the full review please click here.

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.

Jonathan Shaw’s Triple Jump, Harold Edgerton’s Densmore Shute Bends the Shaft & Portrait of Jonathan Miller

“On the Move: Visualising Action,” at the Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art in north London until April 18, for which Sir Jonathan has assembled a wide range of material examining the perception and depiction of movement.

The show includes not only Muybridge’s fragile lantern slides, but the devices which first reproduced visual movement in the 19th century, such as the phenakistoscope, zoetrope and praxinoscope. But it also extends to animated studies of highly technical research into how we perceive movement, Futurist paintings, modern panoramic digital photography and comic strips.”

Further reviews can be seen at;

On the Move is an engaging, thought provoking show… – Evening Standard

…an enthralling show… - The Guardian/Observer

SMIRNOFF Hot Pick! – Time Out London

(the show) raises all kinds of questions, not only about how we perceive movement in still images, but also what art is – The Independent

On the Move: Visualising Action at the Estorick Collection, London. 13th January – 18th April 2010.

17th January, The Sunday Independent, The Critics, Visual Art/Film by Charles Darwent.

“And other rooms bring Miller’s story up to date by focussing on the modern interest in depicting motion motionlessly, from Jonathan Shaw’s shot of a triple-jumper mid-jump to the sequentially flailing fists of Billy Whizz.

This is fascinating stuff, although more needs to be made of its central cognitive drama. As Miller points out, the perception psychologist, Sigmund Exner, found that the eye actually registers the gaps between frames in the apparently seamless story of, say, Steamboat Willie. It is the brain that fills in the narrative, preferring its stories complete. This knowledge raises all kinds of questions about how and what we see, but also about what art is and what it is for.”

Click here to read the full story on the Independent’s website.

On the Move – Visualising Action
Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London
13 January – 18 April 2010

Jonathan has been invited to give his personal response to the On the Move exhibition at Estorick Collection. Jonathan‘s talk has been scheduled for Saturday 3rd April. On the Move has been curated by Dr Jonathan Miller, this exhibition will explore the representation and perception of movement in arts and science.

It will take the Estorick’s own Futurist masterpieces as its starting point but its scope will also include photography, especially the work of Eadweard Muybridge and Etienne-Jules Marey, and recent scientific research into the analysis of movement.

Crash has been beautifully designed by James Langdon and is now available and being distributed by Cornerhouse Publications at a bargain price of £10!
The 44 page hard back publication comprises of a single image which flows across each spread and uses japanese binding techniques to allow the image to physically continue across the outside edge of the pages. The effect that is achieved is similar to ‘concertina’ folding however, the key difference is that the viewer is NOT able to open out the folds in order to see the entirety of the image.
It has been published by New Art Gallery Walsall, supported by Arts Council England and Coventry University.

Featured on Wayne Ford’s (Group Design Director of Haymarket Business Media, London & Hong Kong) Posterous.