Joanna Cole, born 1972, lives and works in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
educatIon
2022. KuRinGai Art Centre Object to Abstract Workshop tutor
2022. Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf Pleasure of Looking & Seeing Workshop tutor
2020. Master of Art, University of New South Wales
1999. Bachelor of Visual Communication, University of South Australia
selected publIcatIons
2021 Art Edit Spring
2020 Art Edit September Show Case
2020 Real Living
2019 Art Edit March Feature Ones to Watch
2018 House & Garden Magazine May Front Cover & Contents
2017 House & Garden Magazine September p36
awards
2022. North Sydney Art Prize Finalist
2021 Blacktown Art Prize Finalist
2018 NSW Parliament en Plein Air Art Prize Finalist
2018 Bowral District Art Society Art Prize Finalist
collectIons
Private collections in the UK, Belgium, Sweden, Germany, India, USA, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, Brisbane, Perth.
publIc works
2020 Outback The Nest Creative Studios
2019 Wylie’s The Nest Creative Studios
exhibitions
2022. Duo_ Sheffer Gallery
2022. These are Picasso Days Group & Curated_Woollahra Gallery @ Redleaf
2021. Magical Mystical _ Solo_Purple Noon Gallery
2020. Small Works Christmas Show_ Project Gallery 90
2020. The Viewer is Present _ Group Show_Mounted ARI
2019. Coming Home _ Art Money & The Other Art Fair Melbourne
2019. Coming Home Again _ Barangaroo The Other Art Fair Sydney
2019. Christmas Show_Group_Project Gallery 90
2019. Grounded_Group_Wellington Street Projects
2018. Women in the Land/ Movers & Shapers_Group_Hazelhurst Gallery
2018. Life Blood_Group_Grace Cossington-Smith Gallery
2018. Sunburnt Country_Collaboration_ Saint Cloche Gallery
2017. Never Fenced Country_ Solo_Saint Cloche Gallery
2002. Arterial Gallery_Group Show_ South Australia
1997. Helpman Academy_Group Show_ South Australia
overview of collaborative exhibition Sunburnt Country:
Collaborating for a second time with ceramic artist Agatha Pupaher and curator Kitty Clarke at Saint Cloche, Sunburnt Country is a phrase from the poem My Country, written in 1908 by a youthful Dorothea Mackellar. She wrote a love song to her home in rural New South Wales while she was away with her father in England. Agatha and I both related to the poem, sharing stories of time in rural/ outback Australia, away from home, making a home where we found ourselves. We shared of missing those open, rural places now as we are living in the racy, urban spaces of New South Wales.
Sunburnt Country featured paintings and ceramics, with the forms and colours and earth from the Broken Hill environs, capturing the essence of the outback, the land out there, tinted with memory.
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