
Joanna Jones
Soon after completing my studies in painting at the R.A. Schools I met Carlyle Reedy who introduced me to performance art. Under her guidence I began developing a practice that engaged my being, both mentally and physically simultaneously, positioning the body as an agency of a particular kind of knowing. In the early 1980’s I brought this ‘knowing’ back to painting. Joanna Jones
Jones’s practice over several decades has included her studio based painting practice as well as the porous collaborative structures she has founded with and for other artists over the years.
Following a foundation year at Northwich College of Art, Jones continued her studies in London at the Byam Shaw School receiving her NDD in painting from Goldsmith’s College in 1966. In 1969 she won first prize in the Greater London Council’s painting competition before graduating from the Royal Academy Schools in 1970. In 1973 she co-founded the London studio collective, The Works with Bryn Jones. In 1978 they moved to Germany where she established her painting practice, exhibiting nationally and internationally. In Frankfurt she was artist in residence with the Fragile Theatre Company and in Berlin established the Pükler Salon. In 1997 she returned to the UK and settled in Dover. She has received several professional awards, including a scholarship from Künstlerhaus Balmoral in 2000 and an ACE Year of the Artist award for a projection on the white cliffs at Samphire Hoe in 2001. In 2006, the Pharos Art Foundation brought out a major publication on her practice. In 2006 she co founded Dover Arts Development DAD) with artist Clare Smith, winning the Kent Culture Best arts organisation in the South East Award in 2016. DAD’s artist directors manage & deliver ambitious projects within the visual arts, poetry, music & sound while actively pursuing a strategic role for the arts in placemaking. Jones has a residency space in her home for visiting artists and the DAD urban room for meetings, events, salons and conversations. She continues to exhibit her paintings (inter)nationally and is represented by Gallery Gilla Löcher in Berlin.
Projects
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- The London Biennale & DAD
- DAD Artists at home
- Dover’s Big Draw 2020
- Exploring the Pop up possibilities at the Buckland Mill site
- What Next Zoom Salons
- exciting opportunity at the former Buckland paper Mill
- What Next? Salon#2 Notes
- Joanna Jones
- 2020 London Biennale
- Hello World: a Transcultural Exchange project
- She created
- Art in the Park – Kearsney Interpreted Artists Films
- the explorers Walk3 : An Artists Walk with Simon Bill
- Park Bench Video Preview
- the explorers walk2 : an historians walk with Andy Rayner
- THE EXPLORERS WALK1 : An architects walk with Philip Hutton
- Recording the Soundlines poets reading their Park Bench poems
- Structures on the Edge : Poetry, drawings, small fortunes and more structures
- Artists and designers start thinking about the DBL innovation warehouse
- The Park Bench Project
- DAD presents at Authenticity Symposium
- Sycamores Class receive Explore Arts Award certificates
- Pebbles Screening event at Dover’s Silver Screen Cinema
- DAD visits Temple Ewell CEP
- A misty research walk
- The story behind CHALKUP21: An interview with Joanna Jones and Clare Smith
- Big Draw 2017: Kearsney Abbey Gardens
- All inked up
- A Parable for Endeavour
- Banksy brings international interest to Dover
- First research walk of the The CHALKUP21 Trail from Capel to Dover
- Food and Doodling mixed well at the Dover Big Draw
- DAD @ SALT
- Weather watercolour workshop
- a tangible reminder, a souvenir, of the collaborative work ‘Weathertime’.
- A brilliant night
- Inspiration=Dover the event
- Kent Creative Awards: Arts Organisation of the Year
- Weathertime Premiere
- A Table of Elements
- Weathertime
- Sensing & Seeing
- Walk @ Full Moon July 31st
- Land and Sea exhibition
- Mid project gathering
- DAD at WOW Folkestone
- Empowering the Individual through the Collective
- Artists’ networking evening
- Buckland Mill Revisted
- Fan Bay Shelter and the 1917 and 1920’s Sound mirrors
- “Walking in my sisters’ footsteps”: DAD Send off
- DAD SEND OFF
- 2014 London Biennale
- DAD presents at Tage der Utopie in Breklum, Germany
- War & Peace: the film
- War and Peace – An Overview and Appreciation
- Salon Evening at the National Trust White Cliffs Visitor Centre
- Transit: Pulp & Rags: The Grand Finale
- RE-VEIL-LE: new work by Joanna Jones
- Transit: Pulp & Rags: an evening of contemporary classical music, poetry and film at Dover Town Hall
- WAR & PEACE SYMPOSIUM: 13 October 2012
- 2012 London Biennale
- 2010 London Biennale
- 2008 London Biennale
- Transmettre-Transmit opening
- Transmettre-Transmit in Dover District
- 2007 London Biennale
- 2006 London Biennale
- 2004 London Biennale