“Cole asks us to traverse into the beautiful unknown and question our notions of “otherness” ”

JOANNA COLE is an Australian born visual artist based in Gadigal Country, New South Wales, Australia.

Cole paints the human condition through the lens of the landscape. With a medative and responsive practice around themes of travel and environmental concerns Joanna Cole takes the hue and texture, the historical materiality of oil paint through a rhizomatic production to bring a collection of works to a singular moment of clarity. Cole has an understanding of the art process as a becoming free of the learned. And yet with relevance and respect to a timeline of thought, technical, manual, experimental markmaking and playfulness, provides detachment to the physical in order to touch on the essence of a almost intangible yet communal thought. The final piece bridges connection through emotion and the story of place.

Joanna Cole is represented in NSW by Brenda Colahan Fine Arts.

phoro credit: Daniel Shipp 2024