Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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.