Biography
Gavin Jay studied fine art at Kingston University before picking up the bass guitar and touring worldwide with Jim Jones Revue and Jim Jones and the Righteous Mind. He kept his hand in with the visual arts designing album covers and tour posters, and in recent years has returned to focusing on his own fine art practice as well as continuing to make music.
Influenced by artists such as Max Ernst and Joseph Cornell and taking in Pop Art, Victoriana, the occult, pulp sci-fi, antique toy theatres and anatomical models, Gavin brings a unique approach to his surrealist collages. Vintage images are printed onto card, cut out by hand and built up in layers with balsa wood to make three dimensional shadow boxes. These are then housed in frames scoured from his home town of Brighton to make work that is both nostalgic and quietly disturbing, conjuring scenes from impossible narratives that exist suspended in Lynchian dream spaces.
Gavin has participated in various group shows in London and Brighton and in 2020 had his first solo exhibition at HOK Gallery in Den Haag (Netherlands.)
pic : Steve Gullick
Recent Exhibitions
01 / 07 / 2021 T O 05 / 09 / 2021
13: LUCKY FOR SOME
CONCLAVE, Queens Road, BRIGHTON UK
02 / 04 / 2021 T O 01 / 05 / 2021
IT IS WHAT IT ISN'T
CONCLAVE, Queens Road, BRIGHTON UK
02 / 12 / 2020 T O 30 / 12 / 2020
THE WINTER 2020 COLLECTION
CONCLAVE, Queens Road, BRIGHTON UK
27 / 02 / 2020 T O 01 / 03 / 2020
THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED
BSMT Space, Dalston, LONDON UK
01 / 02 / 2020 T O 30 / 03 / 2020
PIECES OF EIGHT
CONCLAVE, Queens Road, BRIGHTON UK
13 / 12 / 2019 T O 11 / 01 / 2020
PULL THE STRINGS - A SOLO EXHIBITION
HOK Gallery, DEN HAAG NETHERLANDS
08 / 11 / 2019 T O 11 / 11 / 2019
THE PUNK ROCK 'N' ROLL ART SHOW
UNDERDOG Gallery, Crucifix Lane, LONDON UK
28 / 09 / 2017 T O 10 / 04 / 2018
IN-STORE ARTIST
JEFFERY-WEST, Piccadilly and London City branches
Gavin outside HOK Gallery
Discography
with JIM JONES AND THE RIGHTEOUS MIND
2019 GET DOWN GET WITH IT (SINGLE)
2019 COLLECTIV (ALBUM)
2019 SEX ROBOT (SINGLE)
2018 SHAZAM (SINGLE)
2017 SUPER NATURAL (ALBUM)
2017 HEAVY LOUNGE #1 (SINGLE)
2017 TILL IT'S ALL GONE (SINGLE)
2017 SOMETHING'S GONNA GET IT'S HANDS ON YOU (SINGLE)
2016 ALDECIDE (EP)
2015 BOIL YER BLOOD (EP)
with JIM JONES REVUE
2014 THE LAST HURRAH - LIVE AT THE FORUM (ALBUM)
2013 COLLISION BOOGIE (SINGLE)
2012 THE SAVAGE HEART (ALBUM)
2012 IT'S GOTTA BE ABOUT ME (SINGLE)
2012 WHERE DA MONEY GO? (SINGLE)
2012 7 TIMES AROUND THE SUN (SINGLE)
2010 BURNING YOUR HOUSE DOWN (ALBUM)
2010 HIGH HORSE (SINGLE)
2010 SHOOT FIRST (SINGLE)
2010 DISHONEST JOHN (SINGLE)
2009 HERE TO SAVE YOUR SOUL - THE SINGLES (ALBUM)
2009 BURNING YOUR HOUSE DOWN / ELEMENTAL (SINGLE)
2009 PRINCESS AND THE FROG (SINGLE)
2008 THE JIM JONES REVUE (ALBUM)
2008 ROCK 'N' ROLL PSYCHOSIS (SINGLE)
with SUZIE STAPLETON
2020 WE ARE THE PLAGUE (ALBUM)
2020 WE ARE THE PLAGUE (SINGLE)
2019 THYLACINE (SINGLE)
2018 NEGATIVE PROPHET (SINGLE)
2017 YESTERDAY'S TOWN (SINGLE)
2017 YOU WERE THERE (SINGLE)
also appears on
2013 SHOULD BE HIGHER / THE REMIXES - DEPECHE MODE (SINGLE)
2012 THE JOURNEY IS LONG - THE JEFFERY LEE PIERCE SESSIONS PROJECT (ALBUM)
2010 LET IT BE REVISITED - MOJO PROUDLY PRESENTS (ALBUM)
2000 SCHEMING (KING CHEETAH MORE SALIVA MIX) - MAXIM REALITY (SINGLE)
