Bartlett Visiting Speakers Research Lecture & Seminar Programme
Department of Fine Art Newcastle University
Jonathan Allen is a visual artist and writer based in London whose work has featured in many solo and group exhibitions since the early 1990s, including recently Outrageous Fortune at Focal Point Gallery (2011), Wunderkammer with Sirene Operntheater, Vienna (2009), The Great Transformation at Frankfurter Kunstverein (2008); Kalanag at David Risley Gallery, London (2007); The Dictionary of War at Sophiensaele, Berlin (2007); Belief 1st Singapore Biennale (2006); Tommy Angel at David Risley Gallery, and with Duckie at Tate Britain (2006). He is a regular contributor to the New York-based art and culture quarterly Cabinet, for which he guest-edited an issue in 2007, and was the Arts Council England Helen Chadwick Fellow 2007–8 at the University of Oxford and the British School at Rome. He is a consultant curator at The Magic Circle Museum, London, and recently co-curated the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition Magic Show with the writer Sally O'Reilly.
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/contributors/allen_jonathan.php
http://www.nottinghamvisualarts.net/articles/dec02/474/magic-show