Lansdown Centre

Joanna is a UK artist based in London, working primarily in moving image. She uses still life paintings as a starting point, reconstructing and filming still life scenarios, the material base of life that is constantly overlooked.

By working in moving image, life is injected into the traditionally still genre. The luscious interior of a pomegranate being torn apart, the menacing act of cutting, oysters laid open in their beauty and ugliness, water dripping from ice. Creating pieces that are both vested with memory and the past, and touched with signifiers of modernity, reflecting an interior world of feelings, experience and memory.

It is her intention that the works are viewed or read as a painting or experimental film, rather than following the narrative of cinematic film. Reflecting a state of being and allowing the viewer to remain immersed in each image, rather than a state of becoming and anticipation of what happens next.

Through the residency, she is supporting teaching and student learning in Film, Video and Interactive Arts and furthering her practice utilising the technical expertise and facilities at the Lansdown Centre.

Joanna has a BA (Hons) and MA in Fine Art, from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London.

Recent exhibitions

• Old Masters Reinterpreted. Rollo Contemporary Art, London. 2009
• At Home. Maddox Arts, London. 2009
• Film screening with TankTv, at Quessant Island, Britanny, 2008 and the ICA, London in 2004
• 3 screen video installation at Stone Squid experimental art space, Hastings. 2008
• Living Form. The Muse at 269, London. 2008
• Room 13. Artist in residence at Old Ford Primary School, Bow, London. Setting up a pilot for an art studio run by the students for the students. 2008
• ViDea, Italy. Conference and screening. Organised by the University of Siena in partnership with University of Ferrara (Faculty of Humanistic and Philosophy, Chair of History of Contemporary Art). 2008
• Seduced. The Windows Gallery, Central Saint Martins, London. December 2007-January 2008. Shown in tandem with Art & Sex from Antiquity to Now at the Barbican Art Gallery, London
• Force of Nature. Adventure Ecology Gallery. London. 2007

Current projects

• Stone Squid experimental art space. 24-31 October 2010. A concatenation by 5 UK-based artists. Exquisite Corpse or cadavre exquis was the game of consequences employed, most notably by the Surrealists, with the intention to engender chance unexpected outcomes in collective works. Each of the five artists, who utilise different mediums in their practice, will sequentially create a work developed from the previous participant's fragment. www.stonesquid.com
• The LAB Gallery New York, November 2011. Joanna is involved in the co-ordination and curation of an exhibition of 101 works of 101 seconds in duration, involving over 20 artists
• Joanna has embarked on a collaboration with a painter, Claire Deniau, to explore the boundaries between painting and moving image. Colour, texture, mark, light, gesture, movement...a desire to define and create a space where they both converge as a whole, and also preserve their individuality/identity. The journey is unknown, taking form in a process of experimentation.