Painted Poetry and Painterly Poetics, an ekphrastic notion part 3: Palimpsest

Joost de Jonge is a widely exhibited Dutch artist with work in a wide range of international collections. He was educated at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and ’s-Hertogenbosch, and at the Universitat de Barcelona. He earned his BFA in painting with honors at the School of the Arts in Utrecht, followed by an artist residency at the Fundación Cultural Knecht-Drenth in Callosa d’en Sarrià, Spain.

In 2008 he began publishing catalogues of his work. In 2011 he initiated the Ekphrasis Project with his book The Ekphrasis Project: Oceanen van Kleur, inviting art critics, art historians, and poets to respond to his paintings with original writings. In 2014 the series became an online publication, and in 2015 he produced his first e-book with its own domain at paintedpoetry.org: Painted Poetry & Painterly Poetics—an ekphrastic notion. The collaborative project flourished with contributions from across Europe as well as from important American poets and writers.

His photos and poems have been featured in Dutch magazines, In 2014 the art critic and curator Peter Frank interviewed him for a YouTube video titled “Joost de Jonge: A Life of Art,” directed by Juri Koll and produced by the Venice Institute of Contemporary Art.

John Fuller is a poet, novelist and critic (‘A significant presence in British letters’: The Times). He has published 25 books of poetry, the latest of which are Gravel in my Shoe (Chatto and Windus, 2015), A Week in Bern (Clutag, 2015) and The Bone FlowersChatto, 2016) The first of his seven novels, Flying to Nowhere (1983) won a Whitbread Prize and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He has worked with the composer Nicola LeFanu (including the opera Dream Hunter in 2012, and The Crimson Bird in 2017) and with the photographer David Hurn (Writing the Picture, Seren Books, 2010). He is the author of W. H. Auden: a commentary (Faber, 1998) and has published several collections of short stories, anthologies, edited texts, and books for children. Between 1968 and 1993 he ran a private press: John Fuller and the Sycamore Press: a bibliographic history by Ryan Roberts was published by the Bodleian Library in 2010. He is an Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, where for many years he was Tutor in English.