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Big Cameras, Drawing, Men, Children's Toys, X-rays, Mermen, Jelly Faces, British Parody Comics, Toilet Humour and 1980s British Pornography.

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untitled | 1270 x 1524 mm, 50 x 60 in

#bigneg #alternativeprocesses #experimentalphotography
ultralargeformatphotography #analoguephotography #homemadecamera #diycamera #cameraobscura #homemadecamera #stilllifephotography #blender #photogrammetry by @bakerbang

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5 years ago

A film about how I make Photographs with a macro camera I have made in my studio.
#bigneg #alternativeprocesses #experimentalphotography
ultralargeformatphotography #analoguephotography #homemadecamera #diycamera #cameraobscura #homemadecamera #stilllifephotography #blender #photogrammetry by @bakerbang

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How I made Finger Puppet (no 7)

#bigneg #alternativeprocesses #experimentalphotography
#ultralargeformatphotography
#analoguephotography #homemadecamera
#diycamera #cameraobscura #stilllifephotography #photogrammetry by @bakerbang

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3 years ago

Link in bio - click what's on.

This June we're part of the London Festival of Architecture. Where we will host a month of exhibitions and workshops, all free, in Wandsworth.

First up! Join artist Jon Baker for an exploratory workshop using camera obscuras and pinhole cameras to make black and white photographs looking at our local area.

Experimental Photography & Mapping
Sunday 7 June, 2-4pm
WIP Space, Wentworth House, Wandsworth

BOOK FREE SPOT ON OUR WEBSITE

Ages 8 and over -- all welcome
Spaces are limited.

Pictured: work by Jon Baker @bakerbang by @bakerbang

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5 months ago

Xenia Creative Retreat welcomes Jon Baker from the 6th to the 27th of October 2025.

London-based artist, Jon (b.1977) primarily makes images of the body using mediums such as photography, camera building, painting and drawing.

He has many influences that include outdated psychological and cultural theories, British parody comics, toilet humour, puppets, 1980s British pornography, conspiracy theories, masculinity, children's toys, children's drawings, x-rays, scientific enhancements of the body, mermen, parenthood and jelly faces

His work is large, colourful and often grotesque; the surfaces of the work are frequently moist, dirty and flesh-like. Jon examines the boundaries of cultural taste, politeness and acceptability.

Jon studied for a BA in Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts (2014). He has exhibited at Wonzimer Gallery, Los Angeles (2024), Viable Gallery Istanbul (2022), OHSH Projects (2021), and the Serpentine Gallery (2019).

Jon was selected for the Catlin Arts Prize (2015) and received the Parasol Unit Exposure Award (2014). He had a solo exhibition called “Mess Package” at Somers Gallery (2022).

Jon co-curated the show Liquify, Peckham 24/OHSH Projects, London (2024).

If you would like to see more of Jon's work, please visit his website here: www.jon-baker.co.uk.
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#XeniaCreativeRetreat #ArtistRetreat #ArtistsAtWork #Tattooists #Tattoos #Literature #Music #FilmMakers #Artists #Musicians #Writers #Journalists #Typographers #Illustrators #PerformanceArtists #Sculptors #Painters #Painting #Photographers #Novelist #Philosophers #Poets #Architects #Weavers #Architecture #Ceramicists #Designers #BasketMakers taken in Upton Grey by @bakerbang

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a year ago

The artist @libby_heaney_ asked me to “Entangle” with her in her recent newsletter!

@libby_heaney_ is a Quantum information scientist. She is widely known as the first artist to work with quantum computing as a functioning artistic medium. So what is Quantum computing you ask? As I understand it, it’s the theory (and almost practice?) that we can use incredibly powerful computers that could answer any question we ask such as how can we make clean energy or how do we build engines that travel at lightspeed or what is the funniest joke?

Libby has an augmented reality sculpture in the sculpture garden at Frieze this year. See the last picture

Ent- (non-earthly delights) (2024) is a large-scale sculptural installation and augmented reality (AR) experience which highlights the transformative potential of our forthcoming quantum future.

Thank you Libby for asking me! Swipe through for the questions and answers. by @bakerbang

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2 years ago

Held | Watercolor, Oil pastel, Pencil | 30 x 22.5 inches, 76.2 x 57.1 cm

‘Held’ shows two men in an intimate and painful martial arts chokehold called a ‘Guillotine’. The choke crushes the windpipe stopping the opponent breathing. ‘Held’ continues my interest in depicting a see-through figure, showing the connections of limbs and organs highlighting the vulnerabilities in the body. The image is made by layering pools of pigment and then thick lines of oil pastel. by @bakerbang

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Man Running | Watercolor and Gouache | 30 x 22.5 inches, 76.2 x 57.1 cm by @bakerbang

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2 years ago

Alongside my photographic work, I have been developing watercolour drawings. They are made by layering pools of pigment, creating an effect that appears as if you are peering through the body like an X-ray

One of the drawings I am showing “Got Balls” depicts a person who has giant testicles. The title relates to a person who has shown courage or daring. The drawing takes this positive affirmation and enlarges it out of control, referencing body horror and the grotesque!

I am proud to be included in the show TASTE, a collection of works on paper by excellent artists. Thank you to @ohshprojects for curating and to @wonzimer their impressive gallery.

Presented by OHSH Projects and Wönzimer, the exhibition will be a taste of the British art scene, a cross-section of the artists we have exhibited since our first exhibition three years ago.

The exhibition will include work by twenty-five OHSH exhibitors alongside five Wönzimer exhibitors, each of whom present a unique vision at differing stages of their careers, and we are incredibly excited to share the full list of exhibiting artists:

Dale Adcock @daleadcockstudio

Haydn Albrow @haydndoesart

Jon Baker @bakerbang

Magda Blasinska @magda.blasinska

Gary Brewer @garywinstonbrewer

Jonny Briggs @jonnybriggs176

Rebecca Byrne @rbyrneblack

Charlie Chesterman @charliechesterman

Jamie John Davies @jamie.john.davies

Samantha Fellows @samanthafellowsart

Hester Finch @hesterfinchw

Rosie Gibbens @rosiegibbens

Alexander Gilmour @a_gilmour

Henry Glover @hgglover

Joshua Goode @joshua_goode

Guy Haddon Grant @haddongrant

Lucile Haefflinger @lucile_hae

Lisa Ivory @lisaivory888

Mark Jackson @mrk_jcksn

Lucien Dante Lazar @luciendantelazar

Hynek Martinec @hynekmartinec

Jemima Moore @jemima_moore_

Justin Mortimer @justinmortimerartist

Alaïa Parhizi @therealalaia

Miroslav Pomichal @miroslavpomichal

Joshua AM Ross @joshuaamr

Moussa David Saleh @moussadsaleh

Jonathan Tignor @jtig.art

Cheyann Washington @chyart

Hugo Winder-Lind @hugowinderlind by @bakerbang

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2 years ago

Here are the install photos from 'Liquify', an exhibition of photography I co-curated with @ohshprojects for @peckham24.

This show has been a satisfying culmination of things I've been thinking for a long time about the wide ranging purposes of photographing bodies. I've taken photographs for many years and in different styles and realms (art, fashion, documentary, low-fi and Hi-def etc.) and in many ways it's been how I navigate through the world. These artists are brought together from different contexts to show the medium's scope and experimental possibilities.

Many thanks to Henry and Sophia for having me - and to the wonderful artists involved, I'm really proud of the show.

And thank you to @rosiegibbens for gifting me the @kroll.eric picture from which the show was born!

Liquify is an exhibition about how people record the body using experimental photographic techniques, co-curated by Jon Baker. The artists in the exhibition expand the medium by incorporating processes including assemblage, photomontage, painting, digital manipulation or by playing with image quality. Bodies are stretched, remixed and transformed.

Jon Baker @bakerbang

Jonny Briggs @jonnybriggs176

Alannah Cyan @alannahcyan

Valentina De’Mathà @valentinadematha

Hester Finch @hesterfinchw

Rosie Gibbens @rosiegibbens

Benjamin Jones @benc_jones

Anna-Lena Krause @anna.lena.krause

Eric Kroll @kroll.eric

Roger Weiss @roger.weiss

Kasia Wozniak @kasiawozniak by @bakerbang

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2 years ago

I co-curated a show with @ohshprojects
𝙇𝙄𝙌𝙐𝙄𝙁𝙔 opens tonight 8 May, 6 - 9 pm

𝙇𝙄𝙌𝙐𝙄𝙁𝙔, co-curated by Jon Baker and OHSH Projects, is a show about how people record the body using experimental photographic techniques. The artists in the exhibition expand the medium by incorporating processes including assemblage, photomontage, painting, digital manipulation or by playing with image quality. Bodies are stretched, remixed and transformed.

The works are created for different purposes whether documentary, medical, galleries, fetish or fashion magazines. These contexts cross-contaminate each other showing
photography as a culturally relevant medium with a huge scope for experimentation and evolution.

𝙇𝙄𝙌𝙐𝙄𝙁𝙔 will also be open for @peckham24photo - the free weekend festival that champions new voices in contemporary photography, which will have a special late opening on Friday 17th May from 6pm - midnight.

The 8th Edition of Peckham 24 will explore photography’s multi-layered relationship to history through the curatorial theme, BACK TO THE FUTURE. The artistic programme will bring together diverse perspectives that blend the past, the present and the future via the lens of history. Exhibitions and events will showcase the work of innovative lens-based artists reflecting on themes of memory and personal histories, as well as the work of artists who take moments from the past as inspiration to re-stage, re-imagine or re-think existing narratives.

Jon Baker @bakerbang
Jonny Briggs @jonnybriggs176
Alannah Cyan @alannahcyan
Valentina De’Mathà @valentinadematha
Hester Finch @hesterfinchw
Rosie Gibbens @rosiegibbens
Benjamin Jones @benc_jones
Anna-Lena Krause @anna.lena.krause
Eric Kroll @kroll.eric
Roger Weiss @roger.weiss
Kasia Wozniak @kasiawozniak

𝙇𝙄𝙌𝙐𝙄𝙁𝙔
PV: Wednesday 8 May, 6 - 9 pm
08.05.24 - 18.05.24
Thursday - Saturday, 1pm - 6pm
Peckham Arches, SE15 4QN

Poster image: Rosie Gibbens, ‘Xerox Kiss’ (detail), 2023. Photography by Jon Baker.

#ohshprojects #groupexhibition #groupshow #londonart #artlondon #contemporaryart #emergingartist #emergingart #contemporaryphotogrpahy #contemporarysculpture #photography #peckham24 #Peckham by @bakerbang

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Its a Girl! | Watercolor and Gouache | 30 x 22.5 inches, 762 x 571 mm

#osseointegration #watercolour #gouache #xray #osseointegrationswholift #osseointegrationlimbreplacement by @bakerbang

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