This website introduces a selection of recent work of Jonathan Hoskins, visual artist and researcher living in London, UK, using objects, text, performance, video, presentation, discussion, essay and social projects:

"Hoskins’ work exists primarily within a set of long-term relationships and concerns, addressing political efficacy, social groupings, urban change and folklore. These processes eventually shape performances, texts, publications and events. 

He is part of a growing set of artists for whom direct social action, tempered by discussion and a consistent problematising of the issues at hand, is the work itself. What that action is, however, is up for grabs. … Disguised fictions find their way into reality, not as a safe testing ground but as an actual tool for challenging the dominant narratives of some of those issues. 

Hoskins’ research and work concerns the limitations of what long-term relationships might produce and the questions of what constitutes efficacy and effect, accidental or not. His embedded, openly subjective examinations of the political urge us to understand and contribute our own fictions to the city and futures in formation."

Chris Fite-Wassilak, Art Monthly October 2015. Full text here.

Between 2019 and 2022, Jonathan is a PhD candidate in the Exhibitions Research Lab at Liverpool John Moores University, investigating new forms of collaborative art practice in Japan.

You are welcome to use any material from this website, but please let me know first: dbjonathanhoskins [at] gmail [dot] com