Jonathan Alibone

Jonathan Alibone is a UK artist based in Northampton, England. His practice relies in large part on the models, dioramas and salvaged fragments of cardboard packaging he constructs and then photographs in the studio. Working chiefly in watercolour, oils or charcoal, Alibone reimagines these fragments as ruined, collapsed or abandoned structures situated in desolate and inhospitable landscapes. By positioning his work within the romantic and topographical traditions in Western Art, Alibone is able to articulate ideas of precarity, transience and legacy through the imagined remains of vanished pasts and lost futures.

Alibone is an award winning artist whose work features in collections throughout Europe, Russia and USA. He has exhibited widely, and most notably as a finalist in the Jackson’s Art Prize, the Derwent Art Prize, and the Aesthetica Art Prize, among others. He has co-curated several exhibitions, and has collaborated on many projects, working in a variety of media, such as video, installation, and sound.