Johanna (Jo) was born in Limehouse, East London and worked for many years as a self-taught illustrator before studying BA Hons (Fine Art) at The School of Art, Architecture & Design, (London Guildhall University at that time).
Jo has works in many private and public collections, including the Fitzwilliam Archive, Cambridge; Art Gazette and Rise Art online platforms; Whitechapel Gallery Archive; The Groucho Club, House of St Barnabas and Soho House Club Art Collection.
From 2006 –15 Jo held the post of Editions Manager at the Whitechapel Gallery, working with leading contemporary artists, printers and fabricators on the production of limited editions, commissioned produced and sold in support of the gallery programme. Throughout this time Jo continued to make her own work, exhibiting at The Royal Academy of Art and Flowers Gallery, as well as The Contemporary Art Society and others.
Jo is a board member of The Essential School of Painting (ESOP) and co-tutor on two of ESOP’s yearlong courses namely Approaches to Abstraction and The Painting Year I.
Education
2016 -17 The Essential School of Painting Post Graduate course ‘The Bigger Picture’ with Bob and Roberta Smith RA OBE.
2015-16 Turps Banana Painting School (Correspondence Course).
1995-98 Foundation Course and BA (Hons) at The School of Art Architecture and Design, London Metropolitan University.
Recent publication
Exhibitions and Projects
2022 It’s a Pattern. The Art Car Boot Fair. Five Rooms group show at 15 Bateman Street, London. Seeing Feeling Forgetting group show curated by Michele Fletcher at APT Gallery London. A Generous Space 2 group show at The New Art Gallery, Walsall. Curator/exhibitor: Seedbomb group show Terrace Gallery, east London. Sonic Spring group show Filly Brook, east London.
2021 Group Show A Generous Space Curated by Matthew Burrows (OBE) at Hastings Contemporary. The Art Car Boot Fair: Queen and Country. Solo Exhibition Conundrum at 15 Bateman Street, Soho London. Studio Confetti group show at Terrace Gallery, London. This Year’s Model, Studio 1.1 Gallery, London
2021 Solo Exhibition, Conundrum at 15 Bateman Street, Soho London. Studio Confetti group show at Terrace Gallery, London. This Year’s Model, Studio 1.1 Gallery, London
2020 Hidden Homeless solo show, John McAslan + Partners Gallery.
2019 Material Indifference 4-person show at APT Gallery Deptford, London A Tapered Teardrop curated by Karl Bielik at Terrace Gallery, east London. Royal Academy Summer Show
2018 Solo Exhibition: The Monro Room, House of St Barnabas Soho, London. Damn the Darkening Days group show, Pictorem Gallery, east London The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London Park Life group show Winns Gallery, east London. Malevolent Eldritch Shrieking curated by Paul Morrison. Attercliffe, Sheffield Hardpainting I, a six-person group show at Phoenix Gallery, Brighton.
2017 Local, a solo show at Winns Gallery, east London. The Other Art Fair, New York USA. The Image Obsession Question, Mile End Art Pavilion, London.
2016 Paper Cuts, Transition Gallery and Saatchi Gallery, London. Under Construction, solo show at Roz Barr Architects St John Street, London. Not One: But the Other Turps Banana Correspondence Course group show, Bermondsey Project Space, London
2014 RCA Secret Royal College of Art, London The Royal Academy Summer Show, London. The Royal Academy of Art: North Yorkshire Exhibition at Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, Yorkshire.
2013 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London. 400 Women, Canongate Venture, Edinburgh. Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London. Small is Beautiful, Flowers Central, Cork Street London
2010 400 Women, Shoreditch Town Hall, London. Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
2009 Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London.
Above images (Left) Lament for Handwriting and (right) Kiss
2008 Temporary mural for Frieze Art Fair launch of the Rodney Graham Weather-Vane,upper gallery, Whitechapel Gallery London.
2006 The works of Others, group show at Whitechapel Gallery temporary project space. Recent Paintings two-person show New Yard Space, London.
2003 Hidden Art of Sacy, Chateau de Sacy, France. Solo Exhibition, Groucho Club, Soho London Art Futures, Contemporary Arts Society, London
2002 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Laing Landscape and Seascape, Mall Galleries
2001 Small is Beautiful, Flowers East, London
1999 Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London
Work
2018 Tutor at The Essential School of Painting, London
2016-2019 Editions Project Manager, Field Editions, Liverpool, Bradford & Manchester
2015 Freelance Editions Consultant
2006 Editions Manager at Whitechapel Art Gallery
1979-1995 Freelance Illustrator.
Bibliography
RIBA Journal: Pamela Buxton review of Hidden Homeless solo exhibition, April 2020 edition.
The Aura of Abstraction: I’m in a Window Mood, Lucy Cox.
A Tapered Teardrop at Terrace Gallery, Exhibition review by Geoff Hands (Fine Art Ruminitions) Abcrit #93. Geoff Hands write on HARDPAINTING at Phoenix Brighton.
