Background
Jeremy Moon was born on August 29, 1934 in Altrincham, Cheshire, United Kingdom.
Jeremy Moon was born on August 29, 1934 in Altrincham, Cheshire, United Kingdom.
From around 1959, Moon had been experimenting with ballet, choreography, poetry and painting alongside his day-job in advertising. He visited the second Situation exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1961, and soon after decided to become an artist. He enrolled at Central School of Art but left shortly after starting, feeling that his own working practice and ideas had already been established. In 1962, Moon won The Associated Electrical Industries Prize for Sculpture, a competition that was judged by his friend, the British sculptor Phillip King. At that time he was living and working in Chepstow Road, West London, and had his first solo show at the nascent Rowan Gallery in Knightsbridge. Moon also started teaching part-time at St Martin's School of Art and Chelsea School of Art within the same year. In 1966 his fqamily bought a house in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and during the following year Moon built a large studio in the back garden, taking a lead from John Hoyland who had moved to Kingston and built a studio shortly beforehand. The first works completed in the new Kingston studio in 1967 were the Y-shaped paintings.
Jeremy Moon became a leading figure in British art during the 1960s and 1970s. His work was abstract and geometric in form. His early paintings until 1964 used oil on canvas, switching then to the new acrylic paints. He was an early exponent of the shaped canvas and also created a small number of 3D and relief works. Repeating motifs and elements within his paintings included grid-like forms composed of vertical, horizontal or diagonal lines. Drawing was a central part of his practice and he used pencil, pen and pastels incessantly on A4 letter-writing paper to develop ideas for works.
During Moon's lifetime he had solo shows at The Rowan Gallery yearly between 1963 and 1973 except for 1964. His work is held in the collections of Tate, The Arts Council, The British Council, The British Museum, The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Government Art Collection, National Museums of Scotland, National Museums of Northern Ireland, Manchester City Art Gallery, Southampton City Art Gallery, The Fitzwilliam Museum, The Cecil Higgins Museum & Art Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. Corporate collections include British Airways and Daimler Chrysler in Stuttgart, Germany. He died following a motorcycle accident near Kingston in November 1973.
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Cape Red
Eclipse
No. 1
Crusader
Blue Rose
Indian Journey
Trellis
Ice Palace
Golden Age
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Split Cube
Cypher
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Blossom
Sun, Sea and Sand
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Testament
Garland
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Arabian Night
Naxos
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Mandarin
Parade
Red Chord
Out of Nowhere
Green Sound
Free Flight
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Flamingo
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Hoop-La
Jeremy generally applied paint in a flat and unmodulated way using masking tape to delineate clear areas of colour.
Moon was married to Elizabeth Bryant. Their son Robert was born in 1964. Second son Benedick was born in 1966, and daughter Georgina was born in 1970.
