Jonathan Hateley

I have sculpted most of my life, although it was only in recent years that I felt the desire to produce work of my own designs and choosing. Before taking this new path, my career has been varied, challenging and exciting. I completed a degree in graphic design in 1986 where I concentrated on illustration in both two and three dimensions. I moved to London and began sculpting for the theatre, firstly on the 'Phantom of the Opera' production and then for four years at the English National Opera Company. This was followed by many years working to tight deadlines and sculpting just about anything for TV, theatre and film. At this stage I was also illustrating for publishers. Having been through so many of the commercial applications for sculpture, I now find myself with the freedom to realise my own ideas.
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Against the Crowd
Bronze resin (20x16cm) £POA
Prospering Growth
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Fish
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Whilst I enjoy using detail and texture in my work, I do so as a means of drawing people into each piece, having presented them with the initial design, shape or study. This design is important to me whatever the sculpture may depict, as I seek to find new ways of interpreting familiar subjects. I find aspects of nature most inspiring, from the human figure to wildlife, but quite often seek to find beauty in unlikely places and enhance the details I find in them. Given such subject matter, my sculptures can be organic or figurative, or a mixture of both. They can have an element of quirkiness, or be spiritual, show movement or poise, but are formed with the intention of them sitting harmoniously with nature.
Un tas d’Escargot
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Molluscular
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Spiral
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Tree Frog
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Snail
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Jonathan Hateley's CV

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1964 Born Bilbrook, Wolverhampton
1982 Link course in sculpture under Stuart Osbourne
1982-1983 Stafford College of Further Education, Art Foundation course
1983-1986 Wolverhampton University, BA Hons in Graphic Design
1987 Thorpe Modelmakers, Made the 1:25 scale model of the ‘Phantom of the Opera’ proscenium arch for the Broadway and subsequent productions
1987 Stephen Pyle Workshop, Further work on the ‘Phantom of the Opera’ Broadway show, and Scottish opera ‘Aida’
1988-1992 English National Opera, fulltime propmaker for all operas during this period
1987-1984 During this period, freelance sculpture and artworking for Theatre Studios, Bob Saunders Studio of Applied Arts and Complete Fabrication
1993/1998 Derek Hendon & Co., Sculptor and modelmaker, including sculpted chair with speakers for George Michael’s ‘Fast Love’ pop video
1992-1995 Animated Picture Company. Sculpting and modelmaking on many animated TV commercials
1993-1995 BBC. Sculpting and artwork for ‘Live & Kicking’ and other TV series. ‘Flintstones’ car for Royal Premiere in London
1993-1995 Archer Art Illustration. Illustrated childrens books for Ginn & Co., Red Squirrell, BBC Children’s Magazines, including ‘Brave Mouse’ and ‘Lullaby for a Whale’
1995 onwards Asylum Models & Effects. Sculptor and artworker on many projects, including main characters for ‘Tales of the Riverbank’ film, the Weetabix scarecrow, all characters for ‘Bob the Builder’ touring theatre show, Coleman’s Sauce characters and realistic lifesize figures and body parts for Millennium Dome’s Body Zone
1996-1999 John Hodgson Illustration Agency. Illustrated books for Ladybird, Ginn & Co. and Longmann, including ‘Aesop’s Fables’, ‘Town Mouse & Country Mouse’, ‘Character Portraits’ and ‘The Stone Lion’
2002 Hensons. Sculpted Abba caricatures for Abba pop promo
2002 Animated Extras. Sculpting work on films ‘Cromwell & Fairfax’ amd TV production ‘Walking with Cavemen’
2003-2004 Pinewood Studios. Sculpture work on Oliver Stone’s ‘Alexander’
2003 Exhibited sculptures for first the time in South East Open Studios
2003 Joined Surrey Sculpure Society
2003 Joined TWASI (The Wildlife Arts Society International)
2004 Won Public Art competition for Swanscombe Heritage Park
2004 Commissioned to sculpt two school sculptures by Kent County Council
2005 Commissioned by Tunbridge Wells Grammar School for Boys to produce memorial sculpture
2006 Commissioned by Kent County Council to sculpt piece for Harrietsham CE Primary School