Primarily object and video based, Jon Fawcett's work can be better described as a fabric of contemporary mythologies. Expanding from the more concrete manifestations of his work, this essentially conceptual component is informed by an ongoing investigation into conspiracy theories and new age technologies. Fawcett’s work quickly takes the viewer beyond the art context, involving activities in strange locations around the world, or using materials and technologies with links to expanded systems and contexts. Its behavior and rationale are located within a broader scale, paralleling activities such as business, politics and war, operating on a dispersed, global scale. The ma- terials used in his objects are excitingly contemporary: art meets military and intelligence technolo- gies in functional, performative devices, involving materials such as machined aluminium, carbon fibre, explosives and remote control technology. The worlds proposed by these devices, along with Fawcett’s videos and text works, form a patchwork of obtuse yet enthralling evidence: aspects of an expanded reality situated in the physical, as opposed to documentary, axis of the reality/fiction spectrum. And so Fawcett’s work re-mystifies our existence, destabilising a reductive, institutional- ised definition of what is real and what is not.

Fawcett’s earlier work involved subtle street-based performance-installation, large scale interventions into domestic and corporate communities, and the collaborative creation of several massive, non-physical objects. He has been commissioned by the ICA (London), Wysing Arts (Cambridge), the Bonnington Gallery (Nottingham), Hull Time Based Arts (Hull), Fierce! (Birmingham), Harringwoods Associates (London), the Triskel Gallery (Cork, Ireland), Liveartmagazine (Nottingham and London), the National Review of Live Art (Glasgow), the Expo Festival (Nottingham), the You Are Here Festival (Nottingham), the Back Up Festival (Germany), and the Anti Festival (Finland). Fawcett has held solo exhibitions at the Space Station Sixty Five Gallery (London), the Elastic Residence Gallery (London) and the Inner Spaces Centre for Contemporary Art (Poland). Groups shows include the Chisenhale (London), the Arts Gallery (London), Alma Enterprises (London), Forum Box (Helsinki), the Central House of Artists (Moscow) and the Accademia di Belle Arti (Catania, Italy). He has undertaken resi- dencies at HIAP (Helsinki), Coed Hills Rural Artspace (Cardiff, Wales) and the Inner Spaces Centre for Contemporary Art (Poznan, Poland). Fawcett completed a BA in Visual Performance at Darting- ton College of Arts in 2001, and an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts in 2007.