Jon Ratigan was born In Tredegar in the South Wales valleys and graduated from South Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education in Cardiff in 1990 where he specialised in ceramic sculpture; in 2010, he graduated from Screen Academy Wales, Newport with an MA in Film.
He has made work both as a painter and as a Moving Image artist, exhibiting and screening work both nationally and internationally.
Recently, he has returned to painting and drawing as his principle mediums, currently more or less exclusively generating work pertaining to what he terms his ‘Guys at tables’ series.
Exhibitions
Shift, Cardiff (group show), 2020
G39 Unite Residency, Cardiff, 2019
Anxious Creatures, Llanover Hall, Cardiff (solo show), 2017
Urban Outfitters, Cardiff (Group show), 2015
Art Central, Barry (VOGA), 2015
Traveller’s Gallery, Barry (Solo show), 2014
Anxious Creatures, Centrespace Gallery, Bristol (Solo show), 2012
Cardiff Arts Collective Open, St Mary’s St., Cardiff, 2012
Residencies
Cafe Tissardmine, Morocco with Alchemy Moving Image Festival, Oct/Nov 2018
Artist in Residence- Age Cymru’s CARTrefu Project, Cardiff, 2017- 2019
Artist in Residence- G39 Unit(e), Cardiff, 2017
Screenings
Don’t Start Me, screened online for Age Cymru’s Human Rights conference, 2023
Tell Me More, Age Cymru showcase online, 2022
SPY MOVIE, Hallucinia Film Festival, Paris , 2021
Shades of Mensa, Alchemy Moving Image Festival, Scotland, 2020
Work, Cutlog show at Scottish Royal Academy, Edinburgh, 2019/20
17m:19s:00f & VR MAM, Shift, Cardiff (show with Johanna Hartwig & Sianedd Jones), 2019
X=0, Tactile Bosch, 2019
PATH, Alchemy Festival of Moving Image, Scotland, 2018
The Curtain is like the Sea, Swedenborg Film Festival, London, 2018
Brown Bird, Experiments in Cinema, Albequeque, USA, 2018
17m:19s:00f, G39 Gallery, Cardiff, 2017
Brown Bird, London Experimental Film Festival, 2017
x=0, Alchemy Festival of Moving Image, Scotland, 2017
Money, Alchemy Festival of Moving Image, Scotland, 2016
Work. Alchemy Festival of Moving Image, Scotland, 2016
Work, London Short Film Festival, ICA, 2016