"I paint using a performative process that positions my body as an agency of a particular kind of knowing, taking painting into the territory of an event – a constitution of elements that make something happen: the consistency of the paint, my choice of colour, what concerns my mind, what vibrates through my body, what rings in my ears. Alexander Kluge said that the only thing that we own is ourselves – it’s true but there is nothing to which we are not connected.“ Joanna Jones, March 2019.
The British artist Joanna Jones lives and works in Dover (UK). Following a foundation year at Northwich College of Art, she continued her studies in London at the Byam Shaw School. Jones received her National Diploma of Design in painting from Goldsmith`s College, and graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 1970. Joanna Jones is a recipient of several art awards including the first prize in the Greater London Councils painting competition (1969), a scholarship from Künstlerhaus Balmoral in 2000 and an Arts Council England Year of the Artist award for a work at Samphire Hoe in 2001.
Her work has been shown in many international art institutions and galleries s.a.: Arts Council England (UK); Royal Academy, London (UK); Turner Contemporary, Margate (UK), Wrexham Arts Centre, North Wales (UK); The City Gallery of Leicester, Leicester (UK); Leicester City Museum, Leicester (UK); National Gallery of Canada, Montreal (CDN); Taipeh Gallery, New York (US); Künstlerhaus Balmoral, Bad Ems (D); London Biennale 2004, London (UK); Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (D); Stadtmuseum Bad Ems, Bad Ems (D); Museum Mühlheim, Mühlheim (D); Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, curated by Sigrid Schade, (A); Pharos Center for Contemporary Art, Nicosia (CY); Pharos Trust, Melina Mercouri Cultural Center, Nicosia (CY); Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt (D); Städtische Galerie, Bad Soden (D); Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (D); Space Gallery Folkstone, Folkstone (UK); POSITIONS Berlin art fair 2022 | booth Galerie Gilla Loercher (D); The Citadel Dover (UK); APT Gallery, London (UK); Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin (D) a.o.
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Born 1945 in England, lives and works in Dover, UK.
1967-70
Royal Academy Schools, London, UK
Royal Academy Schools Certificate, UK
1966
Goldsmiths College, London, UK
N.D.D. National Diploma of Design in Painting
1964-67
Byam Shaw School, London, UK
Byam Shaw Diploma in Fine Art, UK
1963-64
Northwich College of Art, UK
Publications
2023
Catalog Joanna Jones, Edition Galerie Gilla Loercher, Berlin
2019
Exhibition review. Malgrund - Meeresgrund: Joanna Jones. Artikel von Noemi Molitor. Tagesspiegel 28.06.2019
2002
Körper und Repräsentation, Leske + Budrich, ISBN 3-8100-3318-9
2000
Joanna Jones, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral
1999
Joanna Jones, Galerie Kyra Maralt, Berlin
1998
Joanna Jones & Alice Mansell, The Texture and the Text – Clothing the Body, Leicester City Gallery
1997
Forces of Nature, Taipei Gallery, New York
Emphathic Interconnections, Joanna Jones in the Charite, by Joanne Evans, MAKE No. 74, Feb–March 1997, ISSN 1365-8190
1996
Joanna Jones in the Charite, Galerie Marina Dinkler, Berlin, D
Philosophiques: Revue de la Societe de Philosophie du Quebec, CDN, Vol xxiii, No 1 Spring 1996, Reproduction of work
Cover Image Imaginary Bodies, Moira Gatens, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-08210-2
1995
SEQUENZ, ISBN 3-926 932-15-5
Hans Zitko, Der malende Körper, Der Kunsthandel, 87. Jg., 2/1995
1994
Andere Körper/Different Bodies, Passagen Verlag, Vienna, ISBN 3-851 65-122-7
Kunst in Frankfurt, 1994, Malerei, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt.a.M.
1993
Joanna Jones, I live in a land where the sun is feminine, Verlag Arnoldsche, ISBN 3-925369-21-X
Galerie Wild, Frankfurt a.M.
1991
Axel Dielmann, Sehfelder, Joanna Jones Künstlerinportrait, AZ Zeitschrift
Achim Wollscheid, What lasts longer among the ripples of the random must last longer than those ripples that last not so long
Zur Kunst in Frankfurt 90, Stadt Frankfurt a.M.
Miriam Hanson, Dismembering (female) representation: the body painting of Joanna Jones
1989
Andreas Honneth, Die Intelligenz des Körpers, Anmerkung zur Körpermalerei der Joanna Jones
1987
Edition Handarbeit, in collaboration with Axel Dielmann and Falk AG. Hamburg.
Kunst in Frankfurt, 1987, Malerei, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a.M.
1985
Joanna Jones, Joanna Jones Catalogue
Awards and Honors
2016
Dover Arts Development (DAD) Kent Creative Awards: Arts Organisation of the Year
2012
DAD film Production Watermark wins the Canterbury Culture Award for Excellence
2008/09
Artist in Residence The Kings School Canterbury, UK
2000
Year of the artist award, Arts Council England
Scholarship at Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, D
1969
British Institute Award
Richard Jack Prize
First Prize London, Greater London Council Painting Competition, UK
1967
Ernest Jackson Scholarship, UK
Film / Video / Internet
2019
Directed Park Bench video (40 mins) for Art in the Park Kearsney Interpreted
2018
NO HORIZON (30 min) Commissioned by SALT: festival for the Sea &Environment Folkestone. Collaboration with Joanna Jones, Helen Lindon, Clare Smith
2017
Reportage for Arte Metropolis with Martin Rosefeldt
2016
A Parable for Endeavour (40 min.) Commissioned by SALT: festival for the Sea &Environment Folkestone. Collaboration with Joanna Jones, Helen Lindon, Clare Smith
2015/16
Director of Dover Arts Development film production Weathertime; 30 min with 30 artistsfrom UK, Belgium and France
2014/15
La Mer video (19 mins) for an interpretation of Debussy’s La Mer by composer SallyBeamish for the Trio Apaches
2012/13
Re-Veil-Le video(17min) with Mihailo Trandafilovski's “Diptych” Violin Concerto No 2
2010/11
Producer of DAD film production Watermark 90 mins.
2008
The Musician and the Painter, Joanna Jones and Paul Cheneour
The Painter and the Musician, Joanna Jones and Paul Cheneour
2002
60 sec. video by Lily Markiewicz. First shown as part of Observation rather thanassumption, Metropole Galleries, Folkestone
2001
The Painter, documentary by Andy Heathcote on Joanna Jones’ YOTA projectat Samphire Hoe for Meridian Television
1998
What could she paint, 12 min. video for the Leicester City Museum, UK
1995-96
§Tintoretto, Joanna Jones on the Body Missing, Website by Vera FrenkelWeb: www.yorku.ca/BodyMissing
International Symposium of Electronic Art, ISEA 95 Montreal, CDN
Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, A
National Gallery of Canada, CDN
Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, D
1985
Infermental IV, Redaction Frigo, F
1984
Body Maze, in collaboration with Johann Rossouw and The Muelheim Museum.
Snow in June, in collaboration with Walther Gramming and Johann Rossouw,sponsored by the British Council
1973
Velasquez and Rembrandt Portraits, K’un Films productions
Paris Women’s Film Festival, Paris. Film Co-op, London
Curation
2018-19
Art in the Park: Kearsney Interpreted 10 artist residences.
2017-18
CHALKUP21 Contempory Architecture Trail programme
2016
INSPRIRATION=DOVER Concert and Exhibition, Maison Dieu Dover
2014-16
Joined up : WW1 project with 10 museums and 16 artists
2014-15
University of the Creative Arts / Ecole Nationale Superieure de la photographie in Arles
Exchange and UK Residency and exhibition at the 2015 Folkestone Triennial in partnership with the Folkestone Fringe
2012-13
War & Peace project; 7 artist commissions and Symposium
2009-10
Resider/Reside cross border project; Pierre Yves-Brest, Sharon Haward and Esoace 36
2007-08
DAD Photography Commissions 5 international photography residencies
Performance & Theatre
2015
Sensing & Seeing experiential moon walk, National Trust, White Cliffs of Dover
2014
Send Off Folkestone Triennial curated Fringe programme
Founding activities
2008
Founding Director of Dover Arts Development Ltd (DAD)
2006
Founding Partner Dover Arts Development (DAD)
1996/97
Founder of Pueckler Salon – music and visual arts- in Berlin Germany
1973
Founded K’un Films with Carlyle Reedy
1972-74
Co-Founder The Works (co-operative work situation for 30 artists), London.
Co-Founder Zeez Arts (co-operative gallery) London.
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2024
I feel you feeling me, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, D
2023
"Shocked into Presence", curated by Nicolas Deshayes, The Citadel, Dover, GB
2022
It cut through blood, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, D
2021
One-single-artwork-show #9, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, D
2019
Beauty treads the razor edge, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, D
2018
One-single-artwork-show #8, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, D
2017
Change, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, D
Body of Colour, Städtische Galerie, Bad Soden, D
2011
A Matter of Touch, Space Gallery Folkestone, UK
2009
Make a friend of Doubt, The Old Synagogue, Canterbury/Kent, UK
2005
New Paintings, Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, CY
2003
Seven Paintings, Pharos Trust, Melina Mercouri Cultural Centre, Nicosia, CY
2001
Arts Council England Year of the Artist, Projection, Samphire Hoe, Dover, UK
2000
Baggage with Laura Padgett, The Gallery, Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall UK, Wrexham Arts Centre, North Wales, UK
1998/99
Galerie Kyra Maralt, Berlin, D
1997
The Texture and the Text – Clothing the body, Joanna Jones & Alice Mansell, The City Gallery, Leicester in conjunction with The Leicester City Museum, UK
1996
Joanna Jones in the Charité, Institute of Pathology, Charité, Berlin, UK
1995
Foldings, Kutschstall, Potsdam, D
Malerei vor Ort, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, D
1993
It Tickled Her Pink, curated by Dr. Klaus Klemp, Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt a.M. D
Galerie Wild, curated by Manfred de la Motte, Frankfurt a.M. D
1991
Sequenz 4, curated by Charly Steiger, Frankfurt a.M., D
1990
Eisen, Galerie Klaus Werth, Frankfurt a.M., D
1988
T.Y.M.C., Galerie Klaus Werth, Frankfurt a.M., D
1987
Joanna Jones/Axel Dielmann, Galerie Klaus Werth, Frankfurt a.M., D
1985
Through the Body, Schauplatz, Berlin, D
1983
Body Maze, Oederweg, Frankfurt a.M., D
1981
Body Maps, Theater am Turm, Frankfurt a.M., D
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2023
I don't know what I want, but I want it now, APT Gallery, London GB
2022
Seasonal. Digital, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, D
POSITIONS Berlin art fair, booth Galerie Gilla Loercher, Berlin
2021
Seasonal. Digital, Galerie Gilla Loercher | Contemporary Art, Berlin, D
The Turner Contemporary Open, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, UK
2018
Selfscapes, Dalby Forest Yorkshire
2017
Narration, curated by Marianne Kapfer, Kühlhaus, Berlin, D
2016
As far as we can see, Lindon Studio SALT, Festival of the Sea & Environment, Folkestone, UK
2015
A Table of Elements, Salt Festival Folkestone, UK
2013
The Meeting Room, Sevenoakes Kaleidescope Gallery, Kent, UK
2009
JoannaJones/Being, Ignition Gallery, The Joiners Shop, Historic Dockyard, Chatham, UK
2008
Pharos 10, The Power House, Nicosia, CY
Transmettre/Transmit, Walmer Castle, Kent UK
2007
Transmettre/Transmit, Chapelle des Jesuites, St Omer, F
2006
Heaven, Das Haus, Bow, London (Featured in the London Biennale 2006) UK
2005
Plant/Transplant, Substation Project Space, Margate and St. Peters Church, Sandwich, UK
2004
London Biennale 2004, Institute of Physics, London, UK
2002
Harvey’s Bodies, The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, UK
2000
Good Start Bad Ems, Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, D
Stadtmuseum, Bad Ems, D
1997
Essentielle Nebenprodukte, Kunst Raum, Trier, D
Forces of Nature, co-curated by Ronny Cohen and Marlene Yu, Taipei Gallery, New York, US
Essentielle Nebenprodukte, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, D
1996
Bilder der Nacht, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, D
1994
Andere Körper, curated by Sigrid Schade, Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, A
Kunst in Frankfurt: Malerei, curated by Peter Weirmeir, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a.M., D
1993
Back to Back, in collaboration with Barbara Heinsch, Frauenkulturhaus, Frankfurt a.M., D
Galerie Wild, Frankfurt a.M., D
ART AID, Frankfurt a.M., D
1991
7 Räume 7 Wirklichkeiten, Hessisches Ministerium für Frauen, Arbeit und Sozialordnung,
Wiesbaden, D
1990
Zur Kunst in Frankfurt a.M. 90, curated by Gundel-Marie Busse, Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt a.M., D
1987
Kunst in Frankfurt: Malerei, curated by Ingrid Mössinger, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a.M., D
Kunstbahn, Hamburg in collaboration with Axel Dielmann and the Hochbahn Gesellschaft, Hamburg, D
1986
Moderne Kunst, curated by Walter Baumann, Leipziger Straße, Frankfurt a.M., D
1972
Art in Subways, collaboration with Peter Kennard, GLAA, London, UK
1970
Young Generation, Arts Council, U.K.
1969
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1968
Three Schools Show, (RAS, RCA, SLADE), London, UK
1965
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK
