Jon Pountney
Lives and works in South Wales
Jon Pountney is a photographer and artist, living in Treforest. His work is inspired by memory, nostalgia, social history and community and primarily uses film and digital photography within his projects. He is passionate about working with communities and people, to bring stories to life and out into the public realm.
My work is the result of years of seeing and thinking about photography and my place within it as an artist. My aesthetic as a photographer is very simple and straightforward: try to capture interesting places and moments in time and share with others. I make art to communicate my sense of wonder, and the themes in my work are influenced by my interest in people, place and history.
Jon Pountney’s photograph Capel Rhiw, Blaenau Ffestiniog (2023) featured in the Idyll and Industry exhibition at the National Library of Wales (May – September 2024), which took place as part of the National Gallery’s 200th anniversary National Treasures project. The exhibition featured Canaletto’s The Stonemason’s Yard on loan from the National Gallery, as well as almost 90 depictions of the Welsh landscape, of which almost 50 were contemporary works.
Exhibition // Arddangosfa:
REBUILD the POETS
Links :
http://www.jonpountney.co.uk/
