Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones

Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones are a London-based photographic and filmmaking duo whose work spans fashion, film, art, scenography and music; together they form W+N Studio.

Lives and careers

Du Preez, a self-taught photographer originally from Johannesburg, arrived in London in 1989 and began shooting for magazines in 1992 with his 1st editorial for the face magazine . Thornton Jones started his career as art director, they began collaborating in the late nineties and have worked together ever since.[1]

Fashion photography – magazines

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[1][2][3][4]

Advertising campaigns

Represented by Talent and Partner in New York and Paris,[5] they have created TV commercials for beauty, fashion and automotive clients including Lancôme; BMW; Pepé Jeans; Schweppes and Perrier Jouët.[1][4] They have also photographed print campaigns for Issey Miyake; Boucheron; Cartier; Mercedes Benz; Absolut; Hermes; Thierry Mugler and Levi's.[1][2][4]

Music

Over the last decade, the duo has worked extensively with Icelandic pop star Björk and won the cannes lions grand prix for their groundbreaking virtual reality experience NOTGET[6][7] and British DJ, producer and electronic recording artist, James Lavelle and his collective UNKLE[4][8][9] for whom they directed the music videos: Follow Me Down and The Runaway Film – both from the album Where Did the Night Fall.[10] They also created the album art for Where Did the Night Fall and its follow-up album Another Night Out. They have also collaborated with British trip-hop/electro group Massive Attack.[4]

Fashions shows and scenography

In October 2007 they devised the theatrical showpiece light installation for La Dame Bleue – the SS08 show from late British fashion designer, Alexander McQueen.[1][10]

Filmmaking – art projects

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.[11][12] Initially previewed at the British Film Institute (BFI), in collaboration with gallerist Siobhan Andrews of Daydreaming Projects,[13] the Erebus project was also exhibited as a film,[9] series of static artworks as well as an exterior installation during London's Frieze Art Fair, 2013.[14]

In 2017 they won the Cannes Grand Prix award[15] for their VR project Not Get in their collaboration with Bjork with their exec producer Campbell Beaton.

Exhibitions
  • 2013 – Erebus – London Newcastle Gallery, solo show, London
  • 2012 – DAYDREAMING – THE HONG KONG EDITION group show, Artistree, Hong Kong
  • 2011 – Vinyl Factory & Daydreaming WHEN THE NIGHT FALLS, solo show, London
  • 2010 – Haunch of Venison & DAYDREAMING group show, London
  • 2009 – Phillips de Pury – NOW group show, London
  • 2009 – 20 Hoxton Square projects & Shelter group show, London
  • 2008 – Lazarides Gallery – Unkle War Paint show with Robert Del Naja, London
  • 2008 – Prêt a Porter – Solo Show, Paris
  • 2007 – In the Making: Fashion & Advertising, National Portrait Gallery group show, London
  • 2004 – solo shows at the Issey Miyake Ropongi store, Tokyo and Conduit Street, London.
  • 2002 – Colette – 5th Birthday – solo exhibition, Paris
  • 2001 – Visionaries Exquisite Corpse group exhibition, São Paulo, Brazil / Paul Kasmin Gallery
  • 2001 – "A Decade ‘Dreaming in Print" – Visionaire magazine exhibition at Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), New York

Installations
  • 2009 – Lightform installation performance with Unkle music collective, De La Warr Pavilion, East Sussex, UK 2009.
  • 2007 – Bird of Light, Alexander McQueen S/S 2008 show collaboration (lightform installation).
  • 2005 – Institute Contemporary Arts (ICA) – Mutation film installation / Fashioning the future, London
  • 2004 – Fashion at Belsay, Zero G film installation in collaboration with Hamish Morrow, Northumberland, UK
  • 2003 – TATE magazine art + fashion, feature x collaboration with Issey Miyake, London

Books
  • 2005 – Fashioning the Future, published by Thames & Hudson
  • 2003 – Gas Book 14, Warren du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones, published by Takeyuki Fuji
  • 2002 – Book One, published by Studio/Colette.

References
  1. "Luxure Magazine".
  2. "Creative Review".
  3. "Show Studio".
  4. "RSA Films".
  5. "Talent and Partner".
  6. "Bjork website".
  7. "Ideas Tap".
  8. "Unkle".
  9. "Eye Magazine".
  10. "Unkle – video".
  11. "Elle".
  12. "Russell Maliphant".
  13. "Daydreaming Projects".
  14. "London Newcastle".
  15. "UK's Analog and W&N Studio grab Cannes Digital Craft Grand Prix for Björk VR experience". Campaign. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
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