CURRICULULM VITAE
Born in 1972, in South Australia, Joanna Cole lives and works in Sydney.
Cole is an Australian artist with a foundation of continuous line drawing. Initially studying with Margie Hooper at the University of South Australia. Cole completed a Masters in Art with excellence at UNSW in 2020. She continues to draw and paint with an interest in line and mark-making that reflects a moment. Balanced on an apex of fauvistic energy and meditative stillness nature inspired observations and philosophical considerings are honoured with awe and wonder. Expressed through an uplift of value in the hues Joanna is considering human contributions to the environment with an invitation to the viewer to Consider Differently.
Colour plays a significant role in the way Cole looks at flora and landforms. Pinkish, reddish, and yellow hues penetrate perceptions of a location and a moment. She looks for the pink in the sky, the leaf, the stone and these hues dominate the canvas in order to catch the eye, the mind and the spirit.
Over the last several years Joanna Cole’s paintings have been included in national publications, group and solo exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne and regional NSW and held in private collections around the world. She is honoured to have been a finalist in the Waverley, North Sydney, Blacktown, NSW Parliament en Plein Air and Bowral District Art Prizes.
The artist is represented by Brenda Colahan Fine Arts in New South Wales.
s e l e c t e d e x h I b I t I o n s
2024 Big Ci Openday (Group) Stillness & Broccoli Foliage
2023 SH Ervine Gallery (Group) Pens & Pencils,
2023 Brenda Colahan Fine Arts (Solo) The Familiar
2023 Affordable Art Fair (Group)
2023 Brenda Colahan Fine Arts (Group) Nest
2022 Waverley Art Prize 2022 (Group)
2022 Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf (Group) These are Picasso Days – Working from Home
2022 Duck Rabbit Gallery (Group) The Unbearable Lightness of Being
2022 Sheffer (Duo) Worth
2021 The Toowoomba Gallery (Group) Spring
2021 Barangaroo TOAF (Group) Land Forms
2021 Purple Noon (Solo) Magical Mystical
2021 Jardan (Group)
2020 Project Gallery 90 (Group)
2020 Mounted ARI (Group)
2020 Jardan (Group) Weekend
2019 Project Gallery 90 (Group) Small Works
2019 Wentworth Street Projects (Group) Groundwork
2019 Comber Street Gallery (Group) Capstone Project
2019 The Facility (Group) The Other Art Fair Melbourne
2018 Saint Cloche (Group) Sgraffito
2018 Grace Cossington-Smith Gallery (Group) Lifeblood
2018 Hazelhurst Regional Art Centre (Group) Movers & Shapers – Women and the land.
2018 Saint Cloche (Collaboration) Sunburnt Country
2017 Dank Street (Group) The Other Art Fair Sydney
2017 Saint Cloche (Group/Collaboration) Common Ground
2017 Saint Cloche Gallery (Solo) Never Fenced Country
e x p e r I e n c e
2024. Residency with Big Ci, Bilpin, NSW.
2023 Residency at Marra - Berowra Waters, NSW
2023 Residency with Alan Jones, Green Street Studios, NSW
2023 Residency with Art for Tarkayna – Bob Brown Foundation, Tasmania
2023 Workshop with Fran O’Neill, National Art School.
2023 Workshop with New York Art School
2023 Tutor – The Pleasure of Looking & Seeing. Woollahra Gallery At Redleaf
2023 Board Member, Waverley Woollahra Art School
2022 Residency with Sian Faber Art, Gaucin, Spain
2022 Residency with Bondi Pavilion Housewarming, NSW
2022 Residency with Magnetic Island Creative Residencies, QLD
2022 Tutor – Exploring Drawing – Object to Abstract. Ku-Ring-Gai Art Centre
2022 Tutor – The Pleasure of Looking & Seeing. Woollahra Gallery At Redleaf
2022 Workshop with New York Art School
2021 Workshop with Idris Murphy, Royal National Park, NSW
2019 Residency with The Nest Creative Space, Alexandria, NSW.
2018 Residency with Square One Studios, Alexandria, NSW
2018 Residency with Movers & Shapers Group, Yellow Box, Turondale, NSW
2018 Workshop with Clark Barrett, Broken Hill, Willangee Station, SA
2017 Workshop with Peter Sharp, Sanctuary Point, NSW
2017 Residency with Saint Cloche, Paddington, NSW
2016 Residency with Bondi Pavilion Art Studio, Bondi, NSW
2015 Workshop with Luke Sciberras, Hill End, NSW
2014 Workshop with Alan Jones, Newcastle, NSW
e d u c a t I o n
2014-2020 University of New South Wales –Master of Art (with Excellence)
1996-99 University of South Australia – Bachelor of Visual Communication (Honours)
p u b l I c a t I o n s
2023 Art Guide August & September editions Promotion
2023 Village Observer Front Cover Editorial
2023 Radio 2RRR Interview with Rosa Mistosis
2021 Art Edit March Promotion
2020 Art Edit Promotion
2019 Art Edit March Ones to Watch
2019 Real Living Editorial
2018 House & Garden Front Cover & Contents
2017 House & Garden September p36
a w a r d s
2022 Waverley Art Prize Finalist
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
2007 Pyrmont Art Prize Finalist
1999 Helpmann Academy Exhibition Finalist
1998 EVA Art Prize Finalist
c o l l e c t I o n s
Public collection in Heidlberg Hospital, Victoria, Australia. Private collections in South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales, Tasmania, Brisbane, Perth, UK, Belgium, Sweden, Germany, India and United States.
p u b l I c w o r k s
2019-2020 Wylie’s Landscapes – The Nest Creative Studios, Alexandria, NSW.