Jonathan Roson : Unfurling from the past into the future

The art in the present exhibition constitutes twenty years of work by the sculpture, print and furniture maker Jonathan Roson while residing in Australia, England and Portugal. During this period Roson’s artmaking has been guided by an interest in his East Asian cultural heritage, horticulture, and the connections that these have given him to both the human and the non-human aspects of Nature. Roson tries to reveal the sacred through materials which until then have often been perceived (and therefore conceived) to be merely profane objects, thereby re-enchanting a world that has been disenchanted by modern mass media culture. Artistic access to natural forms which have been sculpted by the human and/or nonhuman aspects of Nature (such as scholars rocks) has allowed Roson to experience the sculptural products of natural processes that occurred in the past, and open him up to the different possibilities of the as-yetunknown future that are coming into actual being in the present