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The exhibition titled "Signs of Life," located on the ground floor of the University library on the Bory campus, will run from Monday, April 13, to Friday, May 15, offering a unique glimpse into the inner world of an artist whose life and work are deeply intertwined with Pilsen. Visitors can look forward to a retrospective of Jeremy King’s work, spanning from his graduation exhibition at Brighton Art College to the present day. The opening reception begins at 5:00 p.m., with musical accompaniment by the band Poitín, featuring Jeremy King as lead singer.

King’s nearly four decades of work include pieces rich in figurative and overt symbolism, which alternate with contemplative and expressionistic abstract works that explore the workings of the subconscious through form, composition, and line. His latest work is devoid of any desire to paint a picture of “something” - a person, a bird, or an apple. They are what they appear to be. Traces of color on the canvas create works that the artist has termed “neo-pointillism.” They draw the viewer into the space on the canvas and invite the mind to flow through the colored dots, reacting purely instinctively, without needing to ask, “What am I looking at?” King himself considers these works to be his most sincere and authentic to date.

Jeremy King (1965) was born in Brighton, United Kingdom. He dropped out of his studies in geology and biochemistry at Plymouth due to depression and alcoholism. He returned to Brighton and completed his studies in fine arts at Brighton Art College. His main influences at the time were early Renaissance masters such as Giotto and Fra Angelico, English artists such as Paul Nash and Henry Moore, the German Max Beckmann, and the Der Blaue Reiter movement. Together with his partner Janet O’Riordan, he founded The Bear Cave Gallery, an “underground” venue in Brighton’s historic Lanes district. After the gallery closed, he fell back into deep depression and alcoholism. His friend Tim Donkin saved him. Donkin gave King a ride to Veltrusy Castle, north of Prague, so he could join an international work group and spend two weeks working in the garden. In Prague, King met the love of his life. He earned his English teaching certification in Worthing, found work at private language schools in Pilsen, then at the British Council, and has been working at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen since 2004.