Jonathan Monk
Restaurant Drawings
1-JUL-25 – 31-JUL-25
Further Down the Line is pleased to
announce its fourth presentation, an exhibition by Berlin based British artist Jonathan Monk, opening 1st July 2025.
Eight drawings from Monk’s ongoing series ‘Restaurant Drawings’ will be presented at Further Down the Line’s exhibition space and Instagram account at an irregular schedule throughout July 2025. The drawings will each be introduced between the departure of the first train from the station at 6:14am and the last train at 23:44pm and replaced by another drawing at some time later in the month.
Starting in 2015, ‘Restaurant Drawings’ involves Monk collecting a receipt after a meal and later drawing a seminal artwork by an artist directly onto the thermal or paper receipt, often in graphite, pastel or watercolour. Artworks have included those by Donald Judd, Daniel Buren, David Hammons, Sol LeWitt, Christopher Wool, Barbara Kruger and Alighiero Boetti among many other iconic artists. The drawings are posted at monkpictures and are available for sale at the same price featured on the receipt – the cost of Monk’s meal – plus postage and packaging, offering an affordable and accessible opportunity in an otherwise exclusive and restrictive art market.
The works included in this exhibition depict different paintings from On Kawara’s ’Today’ series, known collectively as ‘Date Paintings’. As with others in the series, the drawings are available for sale and buyers will be selected at random after posting their interest at furtherdowntheline_.
Proceeds will help support Further Down the Line’s programme of exhibitions and engagement activities for 2025 and 2026.
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Jonathan Monk was born in Leicester in 1969 and lives and works in Berlin. He has a BFA from Leicester Polytechnic (1988) and an MFA from Glasgow School of Art (1991). Notable solo exhibitions have been held at Belvedere 21 (Vienna, 2025); CCA (Tel Aviv, 2019); KINDL – Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst (Berlin, 2018); Vox (Montreal, 2017); The Gallery at De Montfort University (Leicester, 2017); Kunsthaus Baselland (Muttenz, 2016); MACRO (Rome, 2015); Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) (Dublin, 2014); Centro De Arte Contemporáneo (CAC) (Málaga, 2013); Kunstraum Dornbirn, (2013); Palais de Tokyo and Musee d’Art Moderne (Paris, 2008); Kunstverein Hannover (2006); Institute of Contemporary Art, (London, 2005); and Museum Kunstpalast, (Dusseldorf, 2003).