Original screenprints
Mixed-media
Digital art prints
Alternative process photography
About me
I am a printmaker, photographer and mixed-media artist working out of Spike Print Studio and BV Studios in Bristol.
My work includes screenprints, alternative-process photography, collage and acrylic painting. I like to explore what can be achieved by breaking the rules of process-print techniques. I enjoy the expressive freedom of abstract monoprinting, often overlaying this with graphic elements in metallic foil. I use photographic emulsion extracted from Polaroids, reclaimed Polaroid negatives and cyanotpes (blueprints). Many of these techniques are combined in my mixed-media works on canvas. I love gold
I am a member of Bristol's Spike Print Studio and a director at North Street Gallery in Bristol.
Portfolio
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Six Weeks of Summer
Memories of those halcyon days when six weeks felt like forever. The return to school was so impossibly far into the future that, for a while at least, I could ignore it and enjoy my freedom. Every single day was sunny.
The images in this multi-media piece are made using photographic emulsion that I have extracted from Polaroid photographs. I love the lo-fi inconsistencies of Polaroids and like my memories of childhood summers, some are vivid, some are rather faint and some recur.
Mixed media on canvas including acrylic paint, gold foil and photographic emulsion. 1200mm x 1000mm. £1500 SOLD
Gull 2.0
Original hand-pulled six-colour screenprint. 570mm x 590mm £190 unframed. Produced as part of a collaboration with Creative Reactions 2018 which was part of Pint of Science Festival.
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AdBlock Bristol | The Burg Arts
The Burg Arts project is a community arts billboard in the St Werburghs neighbourhood of East Bristol, UK. In 2018 Adblock Bristol re-launched the project working with local groups such as the St Werburghs Neighbourhood Association and St Werburghs City Farm.
AdBlock Bristol is working towards a city that celebrates its creativity and independence, where residents have a say in what they see in the city’s public spaces. They oppose billboards and other corporate outdoor advertising, and promote a visual environment which reflects the unique identity of our city, the values of local communities and the local economy.
NOTHING TO SEE HERE is Jonathan Rolfe's contribution to The Burg Arts project and was on display in June 2020. It uses an illustration from 1882 by unknown engravers depicting the Queen Square riot in 1831, part of the Bristol Reform riots. At the time Britain was a divided country with only 10% of the male population eligible to vote. The riots were in response to a local magistrate telling a bare-faced lie in Parliament (who would do such a thing?) when he claimed that Bristol did not want electoral reform.
The artwork plays on brash advertising styles often used to convince us of things we know are not true. It references the current trend for some politicians to bluntly deny or contradict any truth that does not suit them. It also links to the notion that large-scale corporate advertising obscures so much of our city.
Bristol has a fine tradition of radicalism. Check out the Bristol Radical History Group for more information.
There's a short version of this video on YouTube and on my Instagram account.
Prints of this artwork are now available in a size that will actually fit in your house.