About Jono Sandilands
I'm a graphic adventurer working where design, printmaking and screen-based technology collide. Exploring the space between the tangible and the digital, and hunting for interaction and play along the way.
These days that practice lives under Studio Oh! No!, my studio and umbrella for commissioned work, collaborations and self-initiated projects, based in Shetland. Print, physical objects and materials sit alongside digital technology throughout everything I make.
Technology
Where the virtual and physical meet, clash and tangle together - that's the territory I work in. Questioning how we actually use technology, and hunting for alternative ways to make and design.
As a visual artist and printmaker, I'm after new technology that makes room for the viewer to take part through interactivity, play and games.
Making
My work digs into little playful stories & childhood memories, odd observations of our culture. Making is cathartic: notes, sketches, research, scratching the itch.
It's about getting my hands dirty and staying part of the whole process, start to finish, learning new skills and solving problems along the way, chasing that creative satisfaction.
The journey
I'm always re-working my practice as an artist - testing the edges, figuring out where my ambition actually wants to take me.
Studio Oh! No! is the latest step: a flexible home for that ongoing experiment, built to grow as the work does.
My ethos
A set of values. A check-in. A mantra. A manifesto: Work, Art, Play.
Three things I try to keep in balance across everything I make. A reminder, when I sit down to work, to stay playfully productive.
Got an idea brewing?
Book in some design time and we'll sit down and work it up together - no mailing list, just a message.