Biography
Joanna Jones draws and paints and actively pursues a strategic role for the arts in the places that she lives.
Educated at Northwich College of Art, the Byam Shaw School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools in London. In 1973, together with Bryn Jones, she founded the London studio collective The Works. Living in Frankfurt am Main from 1978 to 1994 she was represented by Galerie Klaus Werth and Galerie Wild – with solo shows at Haus am Lützowplatz and the Charité in Berlin. She received a scholarship from Künstlerhaus Balmoral in 2000 and an Arts Council England Year of the Artist Award for a projection on the White Cliffs of Dover at Samphire Hoe in 2001. She has lived in Dover since 1997 and, in 2006, founded Dover Arts Development (DAD) with artist Clare Smith(†). Since 2024 the company is run by Simon Bill, Richard Bundy, Charles Holland, Edda Salander-Jones, Roger Parish, Nicolas Deshayes and Joanna Jones. Joanna Jones is represented by Galerie Gilla Lörcher since 2017.
BIORGAPHY
BORN in 1945 as JOANNA COCK name change to JOANNA JONES in 1973
2023
Curation of »After the Black Gold Revisited«, Woolage Village, Kent for Kent Downs AONB
2022
Galerie Gilla Löcher, POSITIONS Berlin Art Fair 2022/ Flughafen Tempelhof
2021
Curation of Dover Arts Development »DAD Digital Festival 21«
»The Seas are rising« Shakespeare Beach, Dover. part of MAKE THE WAVE, a mass of local actions taking place around the coast of the UK to reach Cornwall for the G7 Summit.
Project Management of 3 new art works for the »Via Francigena Art Trail«.
2020
Curation of Dover Arts Development »WHAT NEXT?« project
2019
»The Explorers« DAD & CHA(Charles Holland Architects) Pioneering Places project, West Wing Battery, Fort Burgoyne.
Artists call out for an art work for the West Wing Battery at Fort Burgoyne Dover.
2018-2019
Curation Dover Arts Development »Art in the Park Kearsney Interpreted« 15 artist residencies
2018
The Space at Victoria Park, Dover joined the National »Urban Room Network«
2017 – 2018
Curation of the DAD »Chalkup21« 21st century Architecture trail between Folkestone and Deal programme.
2016
Dover Arts Development (DAD) won Arts Organisation of the Year In the Kent Creative Awards
2014 -2016
Curation of DAD »Joined Up« WW1 project 16 artists and the 10 Museums and Heritage sites in the Dover Museum and Arts Group (DMAG)
2014 -2015
Dover Arts Development Exchange and residency ENSP/UCA Exhibition organised in partnership with the Folkestone Fringe at the Folkestone Triennial
2012 – 2013
Curation DAD »War & Peace« project: 7 artist commissions and Symposium
2012
DAD film Production »Watermark« wins Canterbury Culture Award of Excellence
2009 – 2010
DAD »Resider/Reside« Coss border artists project in partnership with Espace 36
2008
Incorporation of Dover Arts Development Ltd. Directors Joanna Jones & Clare Smith
2008-2009
Artist in Residence at The Kings School, Canterbury
2008
Initiator and Co-curator of »Dover’s Moveable Feast«, a London Biennale event at Louis Armstrong, Dover
2007 – 08 Dover Arts Development »Embarkation« DAD Photography Commissions 07/08 5 & Transmit/Transmettre
2007
Initiator and Co-curator of »One day Museum of Arrows and Archery« to coincide with the Archery World Cup in Dover
2006 DAD artists residency space becomes active at Victoria Park in Dover.
2006
Founding Partner Dover Arts Development (DAD)
2002
Member of Jury for the international Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral scholarship, Germany
2001
Member of Jury for the international Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral scholarship, Germany
2000
»Year of the Artist« award from the Arts Council England and South East Arts
2000
Scholarship at Künstlerhaus, Schloss Balmoral, Rheinland Pfalz, Germany
1980-1984
Collaboration with Fragile Theatre Company, Frankfurt am Main
1973-1976
Collaboration with Carlyle Reedy in film and performance
1972-1974
Co-Founder of The Works artists co-operative, London
1969
British Institute Award
Richard Jack Prize
First Prize »London 1969«, GLC Painting Competition
1967-1970
Royal Academy Schools, London (Tutor William Scott)
Royal Academy Schools Certificate
1967
Ernest Jackson Scholarship
1966
Goldsmiths College, London
N.D.D. National Diploma in Design (Painting)
Co-Founder Zeez Arts (co-operative gallery) London
1964-1967
Byam Shaw School, London
Byam Shaw Diploma in Fine Art
1963-1964
Northwich College of Art, UK
Foundation Year
SOLO SHOWS
2025
»Every second that I’m alive« A multidisciplinary exhibition at Studio 12 and Cornerstone Gallery, London
2024
»I feel you feeling me« Galerie Gilla Lörcher 10623 Berlin Germany
2023
»Shocked into Presence« Curated by Nicolas Deshayes, The Citadel, Dover UK.
2022
»it cut through blood« Galerie Gilla Lörcher Berlin Germany
2021
»Joanna Jones | One-single-artwork-show #9« Galerie Gilla Lörcher Berlin Germany
2019
»Beauty treads a razor edge« Galerie Gilla Lörcher Berlin Germany
2017
»Change« Galerie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin Germany
2017
»Body of Colour« TAC Stadtsgalerie, Bad Soden Germany
2011
»A Matter of Touch«, Space Gallery, Folkestone
2011
Chimera Gallery, Folkestone
2009
»Make a Friend of Doubt«, The Old Synagogue, Canterbury
2005
»New Paintings«, Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus
2003
»Seven Paintings«, Melina Mercouri Cultural Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus
2001
Projection on the White Cliffs of Dover
YOTA Arts Council England Project
Samphire Hoe, England.
2000
»Baggage« with Laura Padgett
The Gallery, Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall
& Wrexham Arts Centre, North Wales
1998/99
»Joanna Jones«
Galerie Kyra Maralt, Berlin, Germany
»The Texture and the Text – Clothing the Body« (Catalogue)
with Alice Mansell
The City Gallery, Leicester in conjunction with
The Leicester City Museum, UK
1996
»Joanna Jones in the Charité« (Catalogue)
Institute of Pathology, Charité, Berlin, Germany
1995
»Foldings«
Kütschstall, Potsdam, Germany
»Malerei vor Ort«
Haus am Luetzowplatz, Berlin, Germany
1993
»It tickled her pink« (Catalogue)
Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Curator: Dr. Klaus Klemp
»Joanna Jones« (Catalogue)
Galerie Wild, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Curator: Manfred de la Motte
1991
»Sequenz 4« (Catalogue)
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Curator: Charly Steiger
1990
»Eisen«
Galerie Klaus Werth, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1988
»T.Y.M.C.«
Galerie Klaus Werth, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1985
»Through the Body« (Catalogue)
Schauplatz, Berlin, Germany
1983
»Body Maze«
Oederweg, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1981
»Body Maps«
Theater am Turm, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 »Revellious« Strange Cargo Arts Folkestone
2022 »St Jerome in the Wilderness«, Milton Art Bank, Milton, PA, 17847 US
2021
Cantium Arts Prison Unlocked curated by Anna Phoebe and Richard Bundy at the former immigration Removal Centre in Dover.
»The Turner Contemporary Open« Margate, Kent
»BRABA ARTE FEMINA« Kunstruimte de Malkfabriek, Hertogenbosch, Holland.
2019
»Blue« curated by Nico Kos Earle for the Blue Marine Foundation, London
»Creative Folkestone Open Houses« with Helen Lindon
»Pears« Lewisham Arthouse, London
2018
»Self Scapes« Dalby Forest Yorkshire
»Arnis Art Experience« Arnis, Germany
2017
»Narration« Külhaus, Berlin, Germany
2016
Winter Open Studio & Exhibition, Dover Studio Collective Project space
»As far as we can see«
Lindon Studio SALT Festival of the Sea & Environment Folkestone
2015
»A Table of Elements« with Helen Lindon and Clare Smith
SALT Festival Folkestone
2014
»Send Off« with Clare Smith
Folkestone Fringe programme curated by Folkestone Triennial
2013
»Meeting Room«, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, Kent
2012
»White Ladies«
London Biennale performance,
Dover sea front & Royal Cinq Port Yacht club
2011
»Hearing the colour seeing the sound«
with the Zen Bicycle Band, Pines Calyx, St Margaret’s Bay, Kent
2009
»Being/Joanna Jones«
Ignition Gallery, The Joiners Shop,
Historic Dockyard, Chatham
2008
»Pharos = 10«
The Power House, Nicosia, Cyprus
With live performance »Amplification/ Moving in Detail« with cellist Rohan de Saram
»Transmettre/Transmit«
Walmer Castle, Kent, UK
»Dover’s Moveable Feast«
London Biennale performance, Louis Armstrong Dover
2007
»Transmettre/Transmit«
Chapelle des Jesuites, St Omer, France
»One day Museum of Arrows and Archery«
to coincide with the Archery World Cup in Dover
2006
»Heaven«
Das Haus, Bow, London (featured in the London Biennale 2006)
2005
»Plant/ Transplant«
Substation Project Space, Margate and St. Peters Church, Sandwich, Kent
2004
»London Biennale 2004«
Institute of Physics, London.
2002
»Harvey’s Bodies«
The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, UK
»Observation rather than assumption«
60 secs. video by Lily Markiewicz
2000
»Good Start Bad Ems«
Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany
& Stadt Museum, Bad Ems, Germany
1997
»Essentielle Nebenprodukte«
Haus am Luetzowplatz, Berlin, Germany
»Essentielle Nebenprodukte«
KunstRaum, Klaus Hinrichs, Trier, Germany
»Forces of Nature« (Catalogue)
Taipei Gallery, New York City, US
Curators: Ronny Cohen and Marlene Yu
1996
»Bilder der Nacht«
Haus am Luetzowplatz, Berlin, Germany
1994
»Andere Koerper« (Catalogue)
Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, Austria
Curator: Sigrid Schade
»Kunst in Frankfurt: Malerei« (Catalogue)
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Curator: Peter Weirmeir
1993
»Back to Back«
with Barbara Heinsch
Frauenkulturhaus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1992
»Joanna Jones« (Catalogue)
Galerie Wild, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
»ART AID« (Catalogue)
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1991
»7 Raeume 7 Wirklichkeiten«
Wiesbaden, Germany
(Hessisches Ministerium fuer Frauen, Arbeit
und Sozialordnung)
1990
»Zur Kunst in Frankfurt/ Main ’90« (Catalogue)
Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Curator: Gundel-Marie Busse
1987
»Raum IV«
with Axel Dielmann
Galerie Klaus Werth, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
»Zur Kunst in Frankfurt: Malerei« (Catalogue)
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Franktfurt am Main, Germany
Curator: Ingrid Moessinger
»Kunstbahn Hamburg«
with Axel Dielmann
Hochbahn Gesellschaft, Hamburg, Germany
1986
»Moderne Kunst« (Catalogue)
Leipziger Strasse, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Curator: Walter Baumann
1973 – 1976
Performances with Carlyle Reedy and Monkey Enterprises Inc, London
1972
»Art in Subways«
with Peter Kennard
GLAA, London UK
1970
»Young Generation«
British Council
1969
British Board of Trade Exhibition in USA
»London 1969«
Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1968
»Three Schools Show«
(RAS, RCA, Slade), London, UK
1965
»Royal Academy Summer Exhibition«
London, UK
FILM VIDEO INTERNET
2025
»Let the bitter be bitter and the sweet be sweet untill the bitter and the sweet become one« Salon with The Deal Festival with cellist Hoda Jahanpour and artist/writer Simon Bill2023
2023
Deal Festival Salon with Peter Sheppard Skaerved, Malene Skaerved, Mihailo Trandafilovski. showing of film Body Paint by Malene Skaerved and new composition to ‘I brought something with me’ series by Mihailo Trandafilovski.
2023
»Re-Veil-Le« (2023 Edit) Edited by Dominic de Vere Music Mihailo Trandafilovski
2022
»3+4« A filmic Collaborative tribute to Seven Samurai (Akira Kurosawa 1954) Drawings by Clare Smith & Joanna Jones, edited by Clare Smith, Soundtrack by Gabor Stark, Title Design Edda Salander -Jones. European premier Arnis Art Experience.
Martin Rosevelt The End of England Teaser
2021
»CANTIUM ARTS« Movement, Interaction and Connection curated by Anna Phoebe and Richard Bundy
»PORTALS« film by Ewan Golder
»Death is not the end« by Ewan Golder
»Egg Tempera and other things« Presented at the Kent Creative Friday meet up
2020
»Hello World« a Global Internet Art Exhibition featuring artists and cultural venues from 70 countries
2019
»MOON TALK«
30 min US3 production
SALT Festival Quarterhouse Folkestone
»Park Bench«
40 min Director. DAD film production for Art in the Park Kearsney Interpreted.
2018
»NO HORIZON«
3o min. Joanna Jones, Helen Lindon,Clare Smith shot on location in Folkestone Installation Lindon Studio commissioned by SALT festival for the Sea & Environment Folkestone
2017
Reportage on Dover and Banksy for ARTE
2016
»A Parable for Endeavour«
4o min. Joanna Jones, Helen Lindon,Clare Smith shot on location in Dover. Installation Lindon Studio & screening at the Quarterhouse commissioned by SALT festival for the Sea & Environment Folkestone
Analogue Ensemble: The Body and Performance in Painting and Film Ramsgate Music Hall
2015
»Weathertime«
Director Joanna Jones Dover Arts Development film production
2014/15
»La Mer«
19 min. Video for an interpretation of Debussy’s La Mer
by composer Sally Beamish for the Trio Apaches.
2015
»Moon Walk« National Trust Visitors Centre.
2012/13
»Re-Veil-Le«
17 min. Video with Mihailo Trandafilovski’s “Diptych” Violin Concerto No 2,
2011
»The Divine Metaphor«, performance for the Millennium Trust
2008
»The Painter & The Musician – St Omer «
Joanna Jones and Paul Cheneour
2002
»Observation rather than assumption«
60 secs. Video by Lily Markiewicz – part of the installation for »Harvey’s Bodies«.
2001
»The Painter« by Andy Heathcote on Joanna Jones’ YOTA-project at Samphire Hoe for Meridian Television 2001.
1998
»What could she paint«
12 min. Video for the Leicester City Museum
1995-96
»Tintoretto«
Joanna Jones on the Body Missing Website by
Vera Frenkel
International Symposium of Electronic Art, ISEA 95 Montreal, Canada
Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz Austria
National Gallery of Canada, Montreal, Canada
Gesellschaft fuer Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
1985
»Infermental IV«
Redaction Frigo, France
1984
»Body Maze« (Video)
with Johann Rossouw and The Muelheim Museum, Germany
»Snow in June« (Film)
with Walther Gramming und Johann Rossouw
Funded by the British Council
1973
»Velasquez« & »Rembrandt Portraits«
K’UN Films Productions
Paris Women’s Film Festival, Paris
Film Co-op, London
PUBLICATIONS
2024 monographic catalog published by Edition Galerie Gilla Lörcher in 2023. ISBN: 978-3-00-075087-8
2022
Cover Design for Mihailo Trandafilovski »Polychromy« – Metier
»A place for the Salon in Urbanism «
Here & Now – The Academy of Urbanism Journal
2020
»Selfscapes« ISBN: 978-1-5272-6867-8
2017
»DAD@TEN« Newspaper Edition of 500
Designer Edda Jones
2009
Cover Design for Walter Zimmermann »Voces Abandonadas« -WEGO
2008
»Transmettre/Transmit« Catalog Dover Arts Development
2005
»Joanna Jones«
Pharos Publishers, Cyprus
ISBN:9963-9199-1-X
Distributed by Cornerhouse Books
»Inside Out«
Joanna Jones/ Guy Brett e-mail conversation
»What has Happened?«
Laura J. Padgett
2002
»The Body and Representation«
Leske + Budrich,
ISBN 3-8100-3254-9
2002
»Koerper und Repraesentation«
Leske + Budrich,
ISBN 3-8100-3318-9
2000
»Joanna Jones«, Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Germany
1999
»Joanna Jones«,
Galerie Kyra Maralt, Berlin
1998
Joanna Jones & Alice Mansell:
»The Texture an the Text – Clothing the Body«
Leicester City Gallery
1997
»Forces of Nature«
Taipei Gallery,
McGraw-Hill Building,
1121 Ave of the Americas,
NY NY 10020
1997
»Joanne Evans: Emphathic Interconnections
Joanna Jones in the Charite«
MAKE No. 74, Feb/Mar 1997,
ISSN. 1365-8190
1996
»Joanna Jones in the Charite«
Galerie Marina Dinkler,
Niebuhrstr. 77, 10629 Berlin, Germany
Philosophiques: »Revue de la Societe de Philosophie du Quebec
Vol xxiii, No 1 Spring 1996« (Reproduction of work)
»Imaginary Bodies«
Moira Gatens Routledge,
ISBN 0-415-08210-2 (Cover Image)
1995
»SEQUENZ«
ISBN 3-926 932-15-5
Hans Zitko: »Der malende Koerper«
Der Kunsthandel, Nr. 87, Jg. 2/1995
1994
»Andere Koerper – Different Bodies«
Passagen-Verlag Vienna,
ISBN 3-851 65-122-7
»Approaching a Work: Positioning the Painting of Joanna Jones« Laura J. Padgett
»Kunst in Frankfurt 1994 – Malerei«
Frankfurter Kunstverein
1993
Joanna Jones: »I live in a land where the sun is feminine«
Arnoldsche Verlag, ISBN 3-925369-21-X
»Galerie Wild«
Kirchnerstr. 2, 60311 Frankfurt am Main
1991
Axel Dielmann: »Sehfelder«.
Joanna Jones, Kuenstlerinportrait
AZ Zeitschrift
1990
Achim Wollscheid: »What lasts longer among the ripples of the random must last longer than those ripples that last not so long«.
»Zur Kunst in Frankfurt 90«
Stadt Frankfurt am Main
Miriam Hanson: »Dismembering (female) representation: the body painting of Joanna Jones«
1989
Andreas Honneth: »Die Intelligenz des Koerpers«.
Anmerkung zur Koerper Malerei der Joanna Jones
1987
Edition »Handarbeit«
in collaboration with Axel Dielmann and Falk AG, Germany
»Kunst in Frankfurt 1987« – Malerei
Frankfurter Kunstverein
1985
Joanna Jones« Joanna Jones Catalogue
»Response to the Work of Joanna Jones«
Huet Southard