Curriculum Vitae

                                  Artist    &   Teacher

Address      194  Westcott Crescent ,  Hanwell,  Ealing ,  London ,  W7 1NU

Telephone    07880632849   or  0208 5752228      Email     artofafrica@hotmail.com   

Website       www.peterjonas.co.uk

KEY SKILLS

1.     Developing +Management of, economically viable Arts Projects

2.   Networking Key Corporate & Government agencies to fund Creative projects

3.   Coordinator / Facilitator Public Cultural/ Arts Festival Events

4.   Teaching SEN, Design & Tech. Creativity and Social Responsibility

5.   Practicing Visual Artist and Corporate Muralist

6. Multi-lingual: English, French, German, Afrikaans and Dutch(basic)

 Poplar Grove School , Wembley PRU.

 Art and Design subject leader.                                                        Good project results

 Slough & Eton Business & Enterprise College

Art and Design / Food technology.                                                  31% improvement GCSE 

Community Arts Project  ft. on GMTV & BBC.1                         Current / recent

95 sq.m Mural project created with 53 children aged 4 -19              Unveiled by Ealing’s Mayor

Salvatorian R.C. Boys College                                                        Jan 10 – July 10

Art, Graphics & Resistant Materials, Games                                     I improved results from 17% - 61%

Art Sabbatical

Ten yearly creative project stint with community arts projects           June 09 – Jan. 10

Capital City Academy ,BRENT  , NW. London                                             Sept 2007 -2009

Graphics Technology and Resistant Materials                                  I improved results from  0 %- 44 %

Kingsmead School    (Threshold- UPS )                                       Sept 2002 - 07 - QTS  reg. GTC

SEN Teacher (Science), PSRE & Graphics Technology                       I improved results from 15% - 41 %

Kingsmead School & Chace Community School                          Sept 2002 - 03

Technology (Graphics), SEN ( Art Therapy- Murals)

Ernest   Bevin  College , London                                                    Sept 2001- 02

Resistant Materials + Graphic Design Technology Teacher

ADT College, East Putney, London                                                     Jan 2001

Resistant Materials + Graphic Design Technology Teacher

Malory High School, Bromley, Kent                                                     Sept 2000 - 01

Resistant Materials + Graphic Design Technology Teacher

The Mural Company                                                                       Dec 1996 -08

Ran my own public and private Mural /Arts practice

Pinelands High School, Cape Town, South Africa                               1996 -00 

Lecturer Graphics and Painting, Adult Education Program

Frank Joubert Art Center, Cape Town South Africa                          1996 -00 

Teacher, History of Art and Drawing Skills

Indiana University Internship Program                                      Jan- March '96

Guest Lecturer

·         Political Philosophy, Language Diversity and Art  in Education 

·           Dominican College, Marin County San Francisco, USA

·         Multicultural Studies (MA Program), University of San Francisco California,

Cedar High School, Cape Town, South Africa                               Jan 1987 -96

Teacher of ART, Mathematics and  Religious Education,

·         First Position BP Mural Art Awards, 1996, 1995, 1994

·         Consol Glass Environment Award 1995

·         Fairest Cape Mural Art Award 1995

·         Finalist, Student Art Competition , Univ. of Cape Town 1994

·         Arbor Day Poster Competition

·         Shell Livewire Award – won by my 3 art mentees (muralists)

St. Raphael's Primary School, Cape Town, South Africa             Jan 1985 -87

Teacher, Mathematics, Art, Social Studies, English, Phys.Ed

Group Exhibition: Gallery - Love Ketchup , London                                     2006

Cape Argus Newspaper Group, I&J  Mural                                                 2000

Painted a 147m long mural raising funds for a new hospital wing

Television interviews and press coverage

Project Manager, One City Many Cultures, Cape Town                            1999

·         Secured funding and managed  media coverage

·         Co-ordinated this regional event with circa 287 participants (ages 12- 82yrs)

·         Managed multiple mural projects for 15 high schools. Circa 250 students

Maybuye Exhibition, University of Cape Town                                          1999

One of twelve artists selected for this prestigious traveling exhibition

Italian Street Painting Festival, San Rafael , San Francisco ,Calif.            1998

Invited to participate in this world famous event

Ikapa Arts Festival, Events Co-ordinator, Cape Town                              1996

Semi-finalist, Bertram VO, Art of Africa Competition                               1995

Seef Art Gallery Exhibition - "Man on Man", Cape Town                          1995

"Out of Africa" Exhibition, Zurich,  Switzerland                                       1994

Solo debut - virtually sold out

St Columba's High School, Cape Town                                                             1981

5 Higher Grades in English, Afrikaans, Biology, Religious Ed., Accounting, Geography

Alliance Francaise de Mitchell's Plain                                                              1989 - 93

French Diploma (level 1A & 2A)

Cape Town (Hewat) College of Education                                                       1981 - 86

Higher Diploma in Education - 4yr. Practical Specialistion – ART + Pedagogics

Hirt and Carter Graphics Company, Cape Town, South Africa                      1993

Computer graphics Diploma, Aldus Freehand Diploma, Adobe Photoshop

University of South Africa (Correspondence Studies )                                  1994 - 95

BA Fine Art Credits (Painting 100, History of Art 100)

University of Indiana , Mid -Career Professional Development Scholarship    1996

Merit achievement  - Guest Lecturing: Masters Program.

 "Understanding Multi - Culturalism". ," Culture and Political Philosophy"

Mural Project development- Carlos Santana Foundation  , San Rafael - California

San Rafael High school - Mural Project - “Understanding Differences”  

Fairest Cape Environmental Organisation , Cape Town                               1991

Art advisor

The Committee of the Alliance Francaise, Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town      1993

Education and Culture Adviser

National Institute of Crime Rehabilitation For Offenders, Cape Town       1989 - 93

Art development facilitator

Santam Insurance Corporation, South Africa                                                1993

International Children's Art Competition  - Adjudicator 

The Arts Foundation,  Cape town ,  SA                                                           1995 - 96

Mural project Co-ordinator

Red Cross Children's Hospital Trust , Cape Town                                         1995 - 00

Corporate Fund-raiser, Major Donors ,Adressed an International  conference

of Hospital Engineers on the impact of  Creative Healing spaces in Hospitals

Large Mural  development/ artwork 240 sq/m

National Network of Arts in Health, London                                                  2001-02

Member/ Arts Practitioner - REF : artofafrica

Mural  Celebrating World Multicultural History                                             2003 -07

“Artist in residence” at Kingsmead school ,SEN Teacher/ Graphics Technology

Spring School   with Ponders End - Police Youth Offending Team               2004

Arts facilitator @ Chace Community School & Kingsmead School , Enfield

Media mural sponsored by Connexions for Kingsmead school                    2004

Facilitator working with Gifted and Special Needs  students

Drama Mural as part of successful Arts Status Bid for Dramatic Arts         2005-06

Done with the help of Special Needs students opened by Sir Cliff Richard

Kingsmead Art/ Music  Building Mural                                                           2006

Private commission covering 102 sq/m   

Murals , Set Design ,Interior Decorating, Computer graphics , Internet surfing, Reading, Feng Shui,

Reiki,  Languages , Painting ,Sculpture and Travel

REFERENCES

Peter Jonas worked at Kingsmead school, a large community school in Enfield, North London from 2002-2007.  He worked in Learning Support and taught Resistant Materials and Graphics as well as Citizenship.  In addition he led a number of mural painting projects involving groups of students which lifted the visual environment significantly.  His art skills were also significant contributors to a number of theatre productions.

Peter’s rapport with young people, particularly disaffected young people, is an area of outstanding strength. He engages confidence and secures their long-term commitment to projects.  This is evident in his classroom practice and his extended-curricular work.

The mural projects have included two significant pieces in the Arts building; one links the stairwells on three floors moving from Music via Drama and Media to Art with a series of well chosen representations; the other along the Drama and Media corridor includes a number of iconic figures from the world of theatre and film including Sir Cliff Richard who signed the likeness at an event celebrating the school’s achievement of Performing and Visual Arts specialist status.  A sterile corridor connecting the gyms to the back of the stage has been transformed by a mural depicting sporting endeavour.  The Geography and History blocks have large circulation areas which again have been transformed as a result of Peter’s work – they provide an important visual context to study in these areas.

Peter’s contributions to school productions represent long-term commitment to large-scale creative projects involving many hours of work beyond the school day and the co-ordination of teams of volunteers.  Highly effective backdrops and Stage Sets for Little shop of Horrors, My Fair Lady and The Wizard of Oz are highlights from recent years.

peter.plowman@kingsmead.org          

telephone 0208 3633037

Re. Peter Jonas

 I am very happy to provide a reference for Peter in relation to the remarkable impact he has had at  Kingsmead School, Enfield (Performing & Visual Arts Specialist status) in terms of working with students and other artists to create a stimulating and thought-promoting colourful visual environment in the many communal areas of the school. Peter has always shown amazing imagination and tremendous talent in his expertise at transforming drab transitional areas into gems of magic visually. Many students have learnt how to contribute to the creation of these murals as well as all of the students prizing the unique and exquisite environment thus created – all of which are pertinent to their adjacent curriculum area. I think that Peter is an absolute individual and genius in his capacity to generate such enthusiasm and response through that two-dimensional medium of large-scale image and colour. As a tribute to the respect in which his work is held, no graffiti or vandalism has ever occurred subsequent to the introduction of one of his masterpieces. I hope that these celebrations to the impact of Art can eventually be more widely appreciated by an audience of experts and enthusiasts.

 Giles Bird O.B.E.

Headteacher 

giles.bird@virgin.net