- Venue
- New Ashgate Gallery
- Starts
- Saturday, November 23, 2013
- Ends
- Saturday, January 11, 2014
- Address
- Waggon Yard Farnham GU9 7PS
- Location
- South East England
Collecting printed and handwritten ephemera is an important part of Joanne’s creative process and this dictates the subject matter. She gathers things, scraps, shopping lists, tickets I have found on the street, at a train station, pockets, all of a particular appearance—discoloured, loved, lost, stained, beautiful and damaged. Pasted found notes or manuscripts are employed because of Joanne’s anthropological interest in mark-making. She is fascinated by handwriting, telephone doodles and children’s scribbles. This ‘accidental art’ forms the basic rules of my compositions, ‘chance’, ‘accident’ and ‘honesty’. Joanne says; These ‘drawing collages’ are best compared to the pages of a book, constructed from detailed marks and materials imploring a need to be held and viewed intimately. This approach is repeated in sculptural form, where small objects are obsessively wrapped using fragile material and are built to a scale not much larger than a book. Joanne is based on Isle of Wight, South East. She has an MA from the Royal College of Art, London. Joanne has exhibited in London, Berlin, Rome and the 54th Venice Biennale. She was featured in an Observer article titled ‘Next generation turns its back on Emin and Hirst’s conceptual artworks’ in 2011.
