EDUCATION
2010-2013. City and Guilds of London Art School. First Class BA (Hons) Fine Art.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Beautiful Chaos. Arkley Fine Art Gallery, Hitchin, 1-25 April 2024
Jean-Luc Almond, Oink Gallery, Swindon, 28 Oct- 22 Nov 2022
Assolo, Le Dame Art Gallery. The Meliá White House Hotel. London. 4-16 October 2016
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Burderop House Launch exhibition. Oink Gallery, Their Gallery. Swindon. 6th June, 2024
The Other Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery, London, 7-10 March 2024
Oink Pop-Up, Oink Gallery, Cirencester, 1st Dec 22 - 8th Jan 23
Fresh Art Fair, Arkley Fine Art, Cheltenham, 27-30 April 2023
Arkley Introduces, Arkley Fine Art Gallery, Hitchin, 1-25 April 2023
The Sixth Sense, Shay Hewett Fine Art, Mauritius, 8-14 October 2022
The Other Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery, London, 17-20 March 2022
The Other Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery, London, 14-17 Oct 2021
Wells Art Contemporary Awards. Wells Cathedral, Wells, 28 August-26 Sept 2021
Trace, Exhibition with Fiona Wilson, The John Bunyan Museum, Bedford, 10-21 March 2020
London Art Fair , Business Design Centre, London, 16-20 Jan 2019
The Affordable Art Fair , Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, 26-30 Sept 2018
London Art Fair , Business Design Centre, London, 17-21 Jan 2018
Start Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, London, Art Unified, 14-17 Sept 2017
Scope Basel, Switzerland, Scope Haus, Art Unified Booth B41, 13-18 June 2017
Art Vancouver, Vancouver convention center, Canada, Art Unified, 25-28 May 2017
Art Market San Francisco, USA, Art Unified, 27-30 April 2017
London Art Fair, Edgar Modern, London, January 2017
Artrooms 2017, Guest Artist, Melia White House Hotel, London, 2017
SCOPE Basel Art Fair, Art Unified, Basel, Switzerland, 14-19 June 2016
Portrait 16. DegreeArt.com & Contemporary Collective Gallery. Vyner Street. London, 2016
Jean-Luc Almond Live Painting, Leontia Gallery, 21 May 2016
Pleasures of the gaze, After Nyne Magazine debut show. The Exhibitionist Hotel, London, 2016
There and Now, Leontia Gallery, London, 2015
Consume, Leontia Gallery, London, 2015
Artrooms 2015, International Contemporary Art Fair, Sponsored Artist, Melia White House Hotel, London, 2015
Modern Panic, Apiary Studios, Hackney Road, London, 2014
National Open Art Competition Tour, Winning works only, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, 2 December 2014 – 14 December 2014
National Open Art Competition Tour, Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 17 December 2014 – 4 January 2015
National Open Art Competition, Somerset House, 18 September 2014 – 25 October 2014
London Legal Support Trust in association with Arts for Justice Open Art Competition, La Galleria, 30 Royal Opera Arcade London SW1Y 4UY, 29th September – 3rd October 2014
Mixed Media Exhibition, Candid Arts Gallery, 3 Torrens Street, London, 2014
Summer Salon, Islington Arts Factory, London, 2014
Degree Show, City & Guilds of London Art School, London, 2013
The Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers Annual Prize Giving, Painter Stainers Hall, Little Trinity Lane, London, 2010
COLLECTIONS
Mark Cass. founder and CEO of Cass Art
Tony Elliot- Founder of Time Out magazine
Silvio Meazza, Co-Founder/Partner @ M&C Saatchi
Sandstorm Films
Arte Al Limite Magazine Permanent collection
Conjurer - band
AWARDS
Fox Art Competition. First Prize. Channel Islands. 2024
Le Dame Gallery Prize Shortlist - Solo show. 2016
The CASS ART Commission – National Open Art Competition, 2014
Best Painting Prize- London Legal Support Trust in association with Arts for Justice Open Art Competition, 2014
The Painter-Stainers Prize for an Outstanding Foundation Student-2010
PRESS
Jean-Luc Almond ‘Lost light and textures’ Arte al Limite. Chile. Nov- Dec 2016 Edition
Saatchi Art One to Watch: Jean-Luc Almond. May 2015
Cass Art Interview: Catching up with Jean-Luc Almond on his Commission. 2014
Cass Art Artist Interview: Jean-Luc Almond's Portraits. 2014
MODERN PANIC V presented by Guerilla Zoo. a-n The Artists Information Company. 2014
ARTIST STATEMENT
Jean-Luc’s highly textured oil paintings have a tangible, sculptural quality. Embracing the transformations that occur when not enslaved to the subject matter, he becomes obsessed with the materiality and texture of the paint itself. A tension forms within the thick surfaces as paint takes precedence over representation, and a deeper psychological and emotional presence is unearthed. He meticulously constructs a portrait using multiple layers of oil before masking, erasing, and blurring features through bold impasto marks, scratching, and peeling. Traces of its history are exposed – an apparition or fading memory of what’s beneath. Jean-Luc’s Dark Head paintings play with light and darkness. Ambiguous subjects emerge from – or disappear into – the shadows, hints of concealed features are illuminated, and the viewer is enticed to search deeper.
Jean-Luc’s influences include Victorian photography, death masks, and black and white film: historic sources presenting timeless or haunting qualities. These pixelated references lend themselves to reinvention of their lost colours and textures, reimagined in his paintings as ephemeral moments of beautiful chaos. Polarities coexist in tension – forming and breaking; creation and destruction; representation and abstraction – as the subjects teeter on the brink of disappearance, reflecting human experience itself: fractured, disjointed, and deeply layered.