Instagram @jonnyxstitch
SOLO
2018: Taut Fibre commissioned by Heart of Glass, in partnership with St Helens Libraries and Homotopia, Moss Bank Library, St Helens, UK
UR-TOPIA, online, Instagram
Dream of the Dead, Hear from the Living, Domino Gallery, Liverpool, UK
GROUP
2022: WDT 2:3, The WetDovetail Virtual Gallery
Cherry Jezebel- The Exhibition, supported by DuoVision Arts and Homotopia, Everyman, Liverpool, UK
Pink Stomping Boots, London LGBTQ Community Centre, London, UK
2021: Slap-Bang! in partnership with Short Supply and Warrington Contemporary Arts Festival, Castlefield Gallery’s New Art Space, Warrington, UK
Ride Your Pony No.4, Abingdon Studios, Blackpool, UK
LGBT+ History Month, Museum of Liverpool, online
2020: COVID-19 in 2020: Apart but Together as part of Navigating New Worlds series in partnership with The Being Human Festival and Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Queer In Exile, online
More T’North in partnership with The Harris Young Producers and Blaze, The Harris, Preston, UK
Queer(ing) Space, Deptford Does Art, Deptford, London, UK
HAGRIDDEN as part of SHUFFLE02, Northern Lights, Liverpool, UK
Borders, what’s up with that? Romantso Gallery, Athens, Greece
2019: Apocqueerlypse for SXRVXVE, DreamBags JaguarShoes, London, UK
Temporary Contemporary in partnership with Kirklees Council and the School of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Huddersfield, UK
Queer as I, HERE Art Center, New York City, USA
Queer Ways of Being, 35 Chapel Walk, Sheffield, UK
2018: Small Steps- LGBTQ+ Celebration, Make., Liverpool, UK,curator and artist
Small Steps- Mental Health Awareness, Make., Liverpool, UK
Colour My World for Brighton Pride, SEAS/BMECP, Brighton, UK
Button It, CraftLocker, Elland, UK
Platform, St Helens, UK
2017: Tales from the city, Museum of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (piece now in permanent collection)
O.K. The Musical, Tate Liverpool, UK, contributing artist
LightNight, Zuhause, Liverpool , UK
2012: Skeive Filmer: Oslo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Oslo, Norway
2012: DIV.A (Diversity in Animation), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2011: Off with Their Heads, Islington Mill, UK
2010: IRIS, International animation festival of sexual diversity, Sao Paulo & Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2009-2016: CHEW DISCO, Liverpool and Manchester, UK
RESIDENCIES
2019: thatwa.y, online @ https://www.instagram.com/thatwa.y/
2018: Taut Fibre, Take Over Festival, commissioned by Heart of Glass in partnership with St Helens Libraries and Homotopia. http://www.heartofglass.org.uk/project/take-over-festival https://sthlibrarieswp.koha-ptfs.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/19/2018/09/Season-12-Final-Brochure.pdf http://www.homotopia.net/festival-item/jonathon-beaver-taut-fibre
low_res_camera_roll , online @ https://www.instagram.com/low_res_camera_roll
Dream of the Dead, Hear from the Living, Liverpool University Centre for Archives, Liverpool. https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/centre-for-archive-studies
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESS
https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/top-10-lgbt-objects
https://www.curatorspace.com/about/news/curatorspace-artist-bursary–jonathon-beaver/212
http://okthemusical.com/participants/jonathon-beaver/
conch.fyi interview, https://conch.fyi/_/liverpool/jonathon
Bear Lee Zine Issue 02 interview https://www.instagram.com/bearwithlee/
#bookdraw interview by Oly Bliss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rxt7tASptA
MASCULAR Magazine Spring 2018 feature, pages 74-84 http://www.mascular.co.uk/Magazine/Issue23.Spring2018/MASCULAR23
BBC Radio Merseyside interview and feature (1:05:00), 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p065hp4y
Interview and blog post, Off the Record, e-magazine of ARA, Archives and Records Association, 2018 https://aranewprofessionals.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/dream-of-the-dead-hear-from-the-living-liverpool-university-centre-for-archive-studies-new-artists-residency-programme-elizabeth-shuck/
Art in Liverpool feature, 2018 https://www.artinliverpool.com/news/the-liverpool-university-centre-for-archive-studies-lucas-launch-new-artist-residency/
Balaclava.Q feature, Tactic 3: Abstract Activism, 2018 https://balaclavadotqabstractactivism.wordpress.com/2018/02/16/jonathon-beaver-iphone-dick/
Video interview for You Are Here– a pop-up museum of LGBTQ+ history, Tate Liverpool, 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AlvdS29tQ
“Five Great Ethereal British Artists’’ article featured my animation, BBC America, 2011 http://www.bbcamerica.com/anglophenia/2011/11/five-great-ethereal-british-singers
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