BORN: - - Scotland, 1982 - - - - - LIVES/WORKS: - - London, UK - - - - - EDUCATION: - - 2000 - 2004 BA (Hons) Sculpture Edinburgh College of Art - - - SOLO EXHIBITIONS: - - 2008 ‘Jock Mooney’ (The Skinny Showcase) Bongo Club, Edinburgh 2008 ‘A Feast of Folly’ Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne 2008 ‘A Show Withdrawn’ Galleri 5, Lund, Sweden 2008 ‘That pig from Tokyo’ Waygood Gallery and Studios 2008 ‘Harker Herald’ billboard project, Newcastle upon Tyne 2008 ‘Discontinued’ Waygood Gallery and Studios, Newcastle upon Tyne 2007 ‘Funland was no more’ Gimpel Fils, London 2006 ‘I wish I had electricity in my fingers then I’d blast ya’ Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne 2006 ‘Studio Project #4’, Artist in residence show Market Gallery, Glasgow ’2005 ‘XL2’ Vilnius Dailes Akademija, Vilnius, Lithuania - - - SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS: 2008 ‘The Future Can Wait’ Old Truman Brewery, London 2008 ‘Stolen presents...’ The Aquarium L-13 Gallery, London 2008 ‘Salon’ Whitecross Gallery, London 2008 ‘WYGD Slow TV’ Waygood on High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne 2007 ‘Vane Shorts 2’ Vane, Newcastle upon Tyne 2007 ‘EMERGENCY3’ Aspex, Portsmouth 2007 ‘Review’ Gimpel Fils, London 2007 ‘Play’ Bearspace (@Cello Factory), London 2006 ‘Greater than Ever’ Main Gallery, Dick Institute, Kilmarnock 2006 ‘Summer Exhibition’ Royal Academy, London 2006 ‘normalife unlimited’, curated by normalife 6 Neal’s Yard, London 2005 ‘Space’ Rednile Group, Sunderland 2005 ‘Out of the Ordinary’ The Travelling Gallery, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh 2004 ‘Voodoo Shit’ Hales Gallery, London 2004 ‘Brave Art’ The Atrium Gallery, London 2004 ‘Best in Show’ the Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh - - - AWARDS & RESIDENCIES: - 2008 Arts Council England individual funding (for publication 'Jock Mooney' 2008) 2005 Artist in Residence, ‘Studio Project #4’, Market Gallery, Glasgow 2005 Artist in Residence, ‘Space’, Rednile Group, Sunderland 2004 The Cross Trust, Perth, vacation studies award - - - BIBLIOGRAPHY: - 'Jock Mooney', Arts Council funded book, 80 page colour hardback, edition 300. Essay 'Feast of Folly' by John Beagles. - - - COLLECTIONS: - - Private Collections in Edniburgh, Newcastle, New York, London. Personal collection of Sune & Marianne Nordgren, Sweden. - - ARTIST STATEMENT: - If Mooney’s work were simply a sour expulsion of bile, superior snapshots of other people’s hell, it would be unremittingly grim, like being accosted by a bellicose drunk on a night bus home. Fortunately, the humour that riddles his work saves it from hectoring hollowness. Like carnival humour, there’s a sense of a twisted community of desperation, defiantly asserting its right not to be squashed by the banal horror of our ‘Ikea society’. This spirit of perhaps futile defiance finds amusing expression in Mooney’s picture of a hairy, grubby head (like Dave Lee Travis on PCP). Twisting the cloying tagline of the old Remington advert (“I liked it so much I bought the company”) Mooney’s sticks the proverbial two fingers up with his corporate motto “he hated it so much he didn’t buy the company”.  (John Beagles, from the essay 'A Feast of Folly').