Jonathon Coudrille

Jonathon Xavier Coudrille (born Jonathan Coudrill) is an English artist, musician and writer. Born in November 1945 in Cadgwith,Cornwall, he lived from a young age on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall, an area with which he is still closely associated. His father was the artist and ventriloquist Francis Coudrill. In 2011 he founded the Lizard Stuckists.

With notable contributions in a number of fields, Jonathon Coudrille can be described as a polymath.

After attending the Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe from 1957 to 1961, Coudrille started out in broadcasting at the age of 17, appearing as a political satirist on both BBC Plymouth and the local commercial station Westward Television, which gave him his own show entitled Young Tomorrow. He also worked on BBC Radio's Today programme, under the aegis of Jack de Manio. He continued with musical political satire when he moved from the BBC to Southern Television, where he was given a Monday news magazine slot, and was later the station's musical director for a period. However, his career in broadcasting was abruptly cut short by a car accident in 1972, which temporarily crippled him with spinal damage.

Coudrille studied painting with the leading English surrealist John Tunnard at the Penzance School of Art, where Tunnard taught from 1945 to 1965.

During the 1990s, Coudrille exhibited at the Royal Academy in London and the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts in Exeter. In 2004, during the Liverpool Biennial, his work was included in The Stuckists Punk Victorian show at the Walker Art Gallery.

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