JONATHAN MITTON X WOWOW GALLERY
The WOWOW Gallery announces collaboration with Jonathan Mitton
We are delighted to announce our collaboration with Jonathan Mitton, a pioneering multimedia artist whose career spans four decades of groundbreaking work in holographic art, 3D imaging, sculpture, and AI-assisted creation. Mitton will also be exhibiting at the British Art Fair at Saatchi Gallery, making this an exciting moment for collectors and enthusiasts alike. Learn more about him on his personal website.
About Jonathan Mitton
A Royal College of Art graduate with distinction, Mitton has consistently operated at the intersection of consciousness, technology, and human perception, anticipating new directions in contemporary art. His pioneering holographic works include the revolutionary “Time Machines”—motorised display devices that became iconic in the field—and the controversial “Hardcore Holography” exhibition (1994), later featured in the Barbican’s Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now (2007/8).
As both artist and inventor, Mitton developed the MittonLR1 Linear Rail, a precision 3D imaging tool that bridged commercial technology with fine art practice. His collaborative projects include stage and light design for Echo & The Bunnymen and founding the Surreal Vintage movement (2012–2020). His work has been exhibited internationally, from Art Miami to the Barbican, and is included in collections such as the Museum of Holography, Washington.
Currently, Mitton is pioneering AI integration with traditional practice through his MetaMorph project, developing visual algorithms—automatic paintings that seed AI-generated animations exploring consciousness and collective memory. His work investigates the playful tensions between authentic human experience and culturally constructed identities, often using 1950s consumer imagery as archaeological material to examine contemporary digital consciousness.
The Works We Will Exhibit
At WOWOW Gallery, we are thrilled to showcase two series by Jonathan Mitton.
PROGRAMMED FASCINATION
This lenticular print explores humanity’s evolving relationship with artificial intelligence. The vintage robot, with its analog gauges and wide-eyed innocence, represents our nostalgic vision of friendly automation. Yet the pulsing spiral background reveals deeper anxieties: are we observing technology, or being observed?
The lenticular medium becomes a metaphor: just as the image shifts with the viewer’s angle, our perception of AI is fluid. Move slightly, and the benevolent helper transforms into a calculating overseer. The work invites reflection on the hypnotic allure of technological progress, questioning whether our embrace of AI is a matter of choice or subtle algorithmic persuasion.
BEETROOT STILL LIFE
In the grand tradition of still life - from Chardin's humble kitchen scenes to Cézanne's revolutionary apples—this lenticular celebrates the profound beauty found in the everyday. Here, the beetroot emerges as an unlikely protagonist: earthy, blood-red, and magnificently terrestrial.
Captured using the precision of the Mitten LR1 linear rail system, each frame reveals the vegetable's sculptural form with mechanical accuracy, yet the result is purely organic poetry. The deep crimson that nature coaxes from soil becomes a meditation on rootedness itself—literally and metaphorically.
Where once Dutch masters arranged tulips and game birds to remind viewers of life's fleeting nature, this beetroot pulses with stubborn vitality. It's a reminder that in our age of silicon and circuits, the earth still produces its own miracles: vegetables that bleed colour, roots that anchor beauty, and simple forms that confound our technological sophistication with their elegant complexity.
The lenticular format allows the beetroot to shift and breathe, never quite the same twice - much like nature itself.
Stay tuned - Jonathan’s works will be viewable here. For more about the artist, explore here.