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Jonathan Allen (born 1966) is a visual artist, writer, and magician based in London. His alter-ego "Tommy Angel", is a fictitious evangelist and magician satirising the genre of Gospel Magic, who Allen portrays in a variety of media including performance, photography, video, and writing. ==Life and work== Allen received a Fine Art MA from Chelsea College of Art in 1989 and was a Henry Moore Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University from 1991-1993. From 2007-8 he was the Arts Council England Helen Chadwick Fellow at the University of Oxford and the British School at Rome.〔Helen Chadwick Fellowship, Oxford University () Retrieved 17 February 2014〕 Allen's work has appeared in many exhibitions including “Feint” at Deutsche Bank in New York, “The Float in the Sight of Things” at Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, “Mesmer” at temporarycontemporary in London, “Con Art” at Site Gallery in Sheffield, "Scarecrow" in Metzova Greece, and "Variety" at the De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill on Sea, UK, the first Singapore Biennale 〔Singapore Biennale () Retrieved 17 February 2014〕 , "The Dictionary of War" in Berlin, "Kalanag" at David Risley Gallery London, 'The Great Transformation - Art & Tactical Magic' at Frankfurter Kunstverein, and 'Adventureland Golf' at the Grundy Art Gallery Hull.〔Adventureland Golf, Grundy Art Gallery () Retrieved 17 February 2014〕 In 2002, Allen instigated the international group show "Con Art" with American curator Helen Varola and Carol Maund which explored art and conjuring’s shared principles of ‘cunning and conning’ through a gallery exhibition (including Mark Wallinger, Simon Patterson, Sarah Charlesworth, and others), a symposium (chaired by Susan Hiller), and a live performance event including, amongst others, Forced Entertainment, Ursula Martinez, and Tommy Angel. In 2010, he co-curated the Hayward Gallery touring exhibition 'Magic Show' 〔Magic Show ISBN 9781853322815 () Retrieved 17 February 2014〕 with the writer Sally O'Reilly. Allen writes widely on art and cultural history for visual art journals including Contemporary (magazine), Tate Etc, and Cabinet magazine, for which he guest-edited an issue dedicated to magic in 2007.〔Cabinet, writing by Jonathan Allen (), Retrieved 17 February 2014〕 He is a member of The Magic Circle, the UK organisation for professional magicians, and an associate curator of The Magic Circle Museum. In 2013 Allen identified within the museum’s collections a previously unknown tarot deck hand-painted c.1906 by the English artist and mystic Austin Osman Spare. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jonathan Allen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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