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== Lives and Careers == |
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Du Preez - a self-taught photographer originally from Johannesburg - arrived in London in 1989 and began shooting for magazines in 1992. Thornton Jones started his career as art director, they began collaborating in the late nineties and have worked together ever since<ref name="Luxure Magazine">{{cite web|title=Luxure Magazine|url=http://www.luxuremagazine.com/features/lifestyle-and-travel-features/49-features/lifestyle/273-creative-reveries}}</ref>. |
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== Fashion Photography - Magazines == |
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Du Preez and Thornton Jones’ work has featured in many international fashion magazines including I-D; Visionaire; Big Magazine; Numero; V Magazine and The New York Times <ref name="Luxure Magazine" /><ref name="Creative Review">{{cite web|title= Creative Review|url=http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2007/october/alchemists-du-preez-and-thornton-jones}}</ref><ref name="Show Studio">{{cite web|title= Show Studio|url=http://showstudio.com/contributor/warren_du_preez}}</ref><ref name="RSA Films" /><ref name="RSA Films">{{cite web|title=RSA Films|url=http://www.rsafilms.com/company/rsa-uk/director/warren-du-preez--nick-thornton-jones}}</ref> |
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== Advertising Campaigns == |
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Represented by Ridley Scott Associates (RSA) Films in London<ref name="RSA Films" /> and Talent and Partner in New York and Paris<ref name="Talent and Partner">{{cite web|title=Talent and Partner|url=http://www.talentandpartner.com/}}</ref>, they have created TV commercials for beauty, fashion and automotive clients including Lancôme; BMW; Pepé Jeans; Schweppes and Perrier Jouët.<ref name="Luxure Magazine" /><ref name="RSA Films" /> They have also photographed print campaigns for Issey Miyake; Boucheron; Cartier; Mercedes Benz; Absolut; Hermes; Thierry Mugler and Levi’s.<ref name="Luxure Magazine" /><ref name="Creative Review" /><ref name="RSA Films" /> |
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== Music == |
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Over the last decade, the duo has worked extensively with Icelandic pop star Björk<ref name="RSA Films" /><ref name="Bjork website">{{cite web|title=Bjork website|url=http://www.bjork.fr/du-Preez-Thornton-Jones}}</ref><ref name="Ideas Tap">{{cite web|title=Ideas Tap|url=http://www.ideastap.com/IdeasMag/all-articles/Warren-Du-Preez-Nick-Thornton-Jones-When-the-Night-Falls-Photography}}</ref> and British DJ, producer and electronic recording artist, James Lavelle and his collective UNKLE<ref name="RSA Films" /><ref name=Unkle>{{cite web|title=Unkle|url=http://unkle.com/}}</ref><ref name="Eye Magazine">{{cite web|title=Eye Magazine|url=http://www.eyemagazine.com/feature/article/unkles-erotic-box}}</ref> for whom they directed the music videos: Follow Me Down and The Runaway Film – both from the album Where Did the Night Fall<ref name="Unkle - video">{{cite web|title=Unkle - video|url=http://unkle.com/video/}}</ref>. They also created the album art for Where Did the Night Fall and its follow-up album Another Night Out.(15) |
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They have also collaborated with British trip-hop/electro group Massive Attack.<ref name="RSA Films" /> |
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== Fashion Shows and Scenography == |
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In October 2007 they devised the theatrical showpiece light installation for La Dame Bleue - the SS08 show from late British fashion designer, Alexander McQueen.<ref name="Luxure Magazine" /><ref name="Unkle - video" /> |
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== Filmmaking - Art Projects == |
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In 2013 Du Preez & Thornton Jones directed Erebus – a filmic response to British choreographer Russell Maliphant’s staging of The Rodin Project, created in tandem with Sadler’s Wells theatre, London <ref name=Elle>{{cite web|title=Elle|url=http://www.elle.com/culture/art-design/news/a23874/erebus-warren-du-preez-nick-thornton-jones-frieze-art-fair/}}</ref><ref name="Russell Maliphant">{{cite web|title=Russell Maliphant|url=http://www.russellmaliphant.com/work/erebus/}}</ref>. Initially previewed at the British Film Institute (BFI), in collaboration with gallerist Siobhan Andrews of Daydreaming Projects<ref name="Daydreaming Projects">{{cite web|title=Daydreaming Projects|url=http://daydreamingprojects.com/erebus-by-warren-du-preez-nick-thornton-jones/}}</ref>, the Erebus project was also exhibited as a film<ref name="Eye Magazine" />, series of static artworks as well as an exterior installation during London’s Frieze Art Fair, 2013.<ref name="London Newcastle">{{cite web|title=London Newcastle|url=http://londonewcastle.com/arts-programme/events/2013-10-16/erebus/}}</ref> |
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== Exhibitions == |
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* 2013 – Erebus - London Newcastle Gallery, solo show, London |
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* 2012 – DAYDREAMING – THE HONG KONG EDITION group show, Artistree, Hong Kong |
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* 2011 – Vinyl Factory & Daydreaming WHEN THE NIGHT FALLS, solo show, London |
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* 2010 – Haunch of Venison & DAYDREAMING group show, London |
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* 2009 – Phillips de Pury - NOW group show, London |
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* 2009 – 20 Hoxton Square projects & Shelter group show, London |
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* 2008 – Lazarides Gallery - Unkle War Paint show with Robert Del Naja, London |
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* 2008 – Prêt a Porter - Solo Show, Paris |
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* 2007 – In the Making: Fashion & Advertising, National Portrait Gallery group show, London |
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* 2004 – solo shows at the Issey Miyake Ropongi store, Tokyo and Conduit Street, London. |
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* 2002 – Colette - 5th Birthday – solo exhibition, Paris |
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* 2001 – Visionaries Exquisite Corpse group exhibition, Sao Paulo, Brazil / Paul Kasmin Gallery |
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* 2001 – “A Decade ‘Dreaming in Print” - Visionaire magazine exhibition at Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York |
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== Installations == |
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* 2009 – Lightform installation performance with Unkle music collective, De La Warr Pavilion, East Sussex, UK 2009. |
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* 2007 – Bird of Light, Alexander McQueen S/S 2008 show collaboration (lightform installation). |
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* 2005 – Institute Contemporary Arts (ICA) – Mutation film installation / Fashioning the future, London |
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* 2004 – Fashion at Belsay, Zero G film installation in collaboration with Hamish Morrow, Northumberland, UK |
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* 2003 – TATE magazine art + fashion, feature x collaboration with Issey Miyake, London |
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== Books == |
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* 2005 – Fashioning the Future, published by Thames & Hudson |
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* 2003 – Gas Book 14, Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones, published by Takeyuki Fuji |
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* 2002 – Book One, published by Studio/Colette. |
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==References== |
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{{reflist}} |
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