Creative Matters

Art School Prostitute

Authors

  • Dylan Jonas Stone

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.15.43289

Keywords:

creative non-fiction

Abstract

In Art School Prostitute, Dylan Jonas Stone describes deceiving the authorities in order to purchase an authentic police uniform to wear working as an escort. As a young boy, art making came easily to Dylan, sexualised at the age of 12 by an older man; incorporating the confusing combination of sex, dreams and drawing to create his feature film The Gardener’s Theatre, has been enlightening — and cinematic.

Author Biography

Dylan Jonas Stone

Dylan Jonas Stone (www.dylanjonasstone.com) painted “Barbara and David Stone’s Bookshelves”, a 12 ’x 14 ’ watercolour of his parents’ library, acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. His 26,000 photographs of New York City, Drug Store Photographs was at the MoMA PS1, reviewed by Holland Cotter in The New York Times, acquired by The New York Public Library. His miniature rooms based on photographs by Eugène Atget, at the Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, was reviewed by Roberta Smith, chief art critic for The New York Times. Susan and Michael Hort purchased several for their collection. For The Museum of Children’s Books in Turin, a collection of over 50,000 children’s books, he produced prints of a boy walking, cycling and drawing in the natural world. His collection of diaries featured in Handwriting history: 200 Years of personal diaries, an exhibition in 2024 at The Maugham Library in King’s College London. 

The Gardener’s Theatre is his gay coming of age story: at the age of 12, he had a sexual relationship with an older man. Dylan is creating a film of this emotional account of his childhood. Short Stories are miniature bronzes of his sexual encounters. Nicole Klagsbrun showed them at the New York Armory; at Frieze London they were on the Deutsche Bank Top Ten List, and with Bill Arning Gallery, The Houston Art Fair and in Richardson Magazine. His work is in the Albert Rafols Casamada Foundation, and his botanical watercolours at Carnegie Mellon University, Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. 

Dylan storyboarded for Johnny Depp’s new film Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness and Anton Corbijn’s most recent film Switzerland.

Published

2026-02-18

Issue

Vol. 15 (2026): EJLW

Section

Creative Matters

Copyright (c) 2026 Dylan Jonas Stone

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