Joanna Jowett
joanna.jowett[@]outlook.com
Education
York St JohnCollege, University of Leeds 2003 – 2006
BA (Hons) Performance (Drama) First Class Degree
Greenhead College, Huddersfield 2001 –2003
A-levels: Drama and Theatre studies (B), English Language and Literature (A),Modern History (B), General Studies (A)
Solo Exhibitions
Rearing Whilst Rising, Left Bank Leeds. An exhibition of new work exploring the extremes of joy and grief experienced through the lens of motherhood. Including new prints, poems and a series of portraits of some of the many makers who are part of the Creative Mothers Project in Leeds. This new body of work turns our attention to the parents & carers, in particular m/others who continue to navigate holding multiple roles within a domestic space, something that intensified throughout the pandemic.
Exploring the edges of what is public/private who is seen/unseen and the soft and vulnerable parts of being human. Jun-Jul 2023
Group Exhibitions
Do you hear us...are you listening? Spilt Milk Gallery Online, Nov 2023 - Jan 2024.
In/Visible, Archive Leeds, Collective space group show by The High Rise Project. Jul 2023
International Women's Day Exhibition by Creative Mothers Project Leeds, HUMBL Leeds. Mar-April 2023.
Bring It! at Aire Place Studios Leeds, May - June 2022
nothing is happening, everything is happening, new work created as part of the Creative Mothers Project exhibition Creāre for IOMA. A series of three miniature photograph and mixed media pieces. Feb 2020
The Reversing Machine, by Simon Lewandowski & Sam Belinfante, The Tetley, Leeds
Sound work selected for 'The Palindrone Jukebox' - To Breathe with Words, Jan – Feb 2014
Publications
The Book of Book Ideas, by 23 Press, 2022.
Paradiso COPY publication as part of Wild Pansy Press residency, 2013
Performance of The Sky for COPY: Charts, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 2012
Automatic Writing in response to Ron Athey 'Gift of the Spirit: Automatic Writing' for COPY // unfold, 2011
RITE published as part of Critical Communities, a New Work Network and Open Dialogues project exploring the practice of collaborative critical writing on and as new work (interdisciplinary and live art), 2009
Commissioned Writing & Interviews
Review of Andrew Omoding, Welcome to Me, Scarborough. To See and Hold My Work at Crescent Arts, Woodend Gallery, Scarborough for Corridor 8, Jun 2022
Interview with Idit Nathan and Helen Stratford, Further Afield at Yorkshire Sculpture Park for Corridor 8, Oct 2021
Dwell Time: a moving picture of mental health - Extended Review of Dwell Time Issue 2 for Corridor 8, Aug 2020
Interview with Kerry Harker and Claire Irving, East Leeds Project for Corridor 8, Oct 2019
Yoko Ono Exhibition Review for Corridor 8. Mar 2019
Review writing for Northern Soul 2016-2017
(in)Xclusion Interviewand Text Commission from East Street Arts: Feb 2012
Compass Live Art Symposium, Leeds, Associate Artist and Writer. Nov 2011
AN Interface Degrees Unedited, Interview with David Richmond, York St John University. Jul 2011
WHIPPIT– Commissioned Writer for the 6th National Whippit Night, York Feb 2010
Critical Communities and RITE publication, Feb – Dec 09
Writer for Open Dialogues: New Life Berlin Festival - Collaborative writing project for Wooloo.org, Berlin, Germany. May-Jun 2008
Time & Tidal Flow, Live Art and Contemporary Performance Festival Hull Time Based Arts and New Work Yorkshire, writer in residence/editor. Apr 2008
Residencies
Wild Pansy Press Project Space, University of Leeds, School of Fine Art COPY Writers Retreat project Feb 2013
Site Gallery, Sheffield, print it: COPY in residence Aug 2012
Curatorial Projects as COPY
unfold II, launched Sep 2023
everything but the bathing suit, launched Sep 2019
Writers Retreat, Wild Pansy Press Project Space, Old Mining Building, University of Leeds. Residency, publication and launch including artists talk, Feb 2013
COPY: at the table, performance event and publication 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe, February2013.
COPY: Charts, Project and Publication, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Sept – Nov 2012.
print it: COPY in residence, Site Gallery, Sheffield, August 2012
COPY: Double, Performance and billboard commission of OUI Performance, Bloc Projects Sheffield, April – May2012
COPY // unfold, publication and launch event, Sheffield, December 2011
COPY // Understudy, publication for The Plaza Principle exhibition, Leeds, October 2010
Performance
Illumination: An Evening of Poetry and Music
Poetry reading as part of ‘Illumination: An Evening of Poetry and Music, at Bradford Cathedral, Mar 2022
Hands Full Ensemble, Meditations on Motherhood
Ensemble artist and performer. Presented by Sophia Clist, Lizzy Humber and Mothers Who Make, Nov 2020
Touch, by Four Hands dance company, performed alongside my daughter Bella (aged 5) as part of the ensemble community cast in the Leeds performances of ‘Touch’ at The Holbeck and Yorkshire Dance, Mar 2020
Talks/Symposia
PABDMOUTH– Publish and Be Damned, Plymouth, Nov 2013
Papers, Fictions, Scripts & Circles, Site Gallery, Sheffield, Aug 2012
COPY unfold Launch Event, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, Dec 2011
Writing Encounters International Symposium York St John University, Sep 2008
Teaching Experience
Cyanotype Workshop Facilitator, East Leeds Project for Yorkshire Wildlife Trust community workshop Aug 2022
Art Workshop Leader, Book Binding Workshop, 23 Press/ Leeds 2023, Mar 2022
Visiting Lecturer, Curating The Page, York St John University Mar 2015
Other Works
see you - made in response to a call out from song writer and musician Beccy Owens, included in the music video for ‘Safety First‘ a track from CHAOTICA by Beccy Owen & The Refuge, Mar 2021