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JO ARIS
The work is about the material and sensual world, places - both specific and landscape archetypes, colour and language. It investigates the relationship between non human nature, and human, domestic life.
Materials used include paper (sugar paper, newsprint, manilla etc.), plant material, silk, thread, wool, pearls, paint. They are typically fragile, often transparent, not waterproof, sometimes change when exposed to light: a broadly anti monumental stance.
Projects in development are [Pomegranate] fig, herb, spice (paintings) and square garden, crescent garden (writing).
[Pomegranate] fig, herb, spice comprises image, text, and image/text paintings. These all deal with edible and medicinal plants, but also investigate colour, language, and the interaction between image and text. The wider context for this work is concerns about land use and food production.
The text pieces include lists of plants according to colour; etymologies of English names; lists of species in a genus, their place of origin, uses in food and Chinese medicinal term for the part used; lists of different languages words for the same thing - names for mango, pomegranate, trees in the plum genus, herbs are arranged according to sound, and beginning with the languages nearest to where the plant is found in the wild.
Education
1996-97 MA European Fine Art, Winchester School of Art, Barcelona
1978-82 BA Honours in Fine Art, Leeds University
One Person Exhibitions
2006 |
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inside, underneath, behind (text installation), io gallery, Brighton |
2002 |
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Red etc. (installation of boxed objects and text), 7 Arundel Place, Brighton |
2001 |
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Barcelona texts, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton |
1997 |
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Sky, sea installation and related work, Winchester School of Art
Beech leaf installation, Panorama Gallery, Barcelona |
1992- 1996 |
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Dark Gardens, Lamplit Windows at:
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds
Dean Clough Contemporary Art Gallery, Halifax
Lotherton Hall, Yorkshire
Queens Hall Arts Centre, Hexham
The Manor House, Ilkley
Newlyn Gallery, West Yorkshire Playhouse |
1988 |
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D.L.I Museum and Arts Centre, Durham |
1987 |
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Landscape Elements Part 1, South Square Gallery, Bradford |
1985 |
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South Square Gallery, Bradford
Artspace Gallery, Leeds |
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Selected Group Exhibitions
2005 |
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Phoenix Open Studios and Sampler, Brighton
io windowspace, (thirty pieces from pomegranate project), Brighton |
1999-2001 |
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Monumental Miniatures for The Millennium, Scottish Touring Exhibitions Consortium:
Inverness Museum and Art Gallery;
St Fergus Gallery, Wick;
Swanson Gallery, Thurso;
The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock;
Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries;
Scottish Borders Council;
Crawford Arts Centre, St Andrews;
Smith Art Gallery, Sterling;
Paisley Museum;
York College of Further Education;
An Lanntair, Stornoway, Isle of Lewis;
An Toba Fr, Tobermoray, Isle of Mull;
Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland;
London Road Gallery, Norwich. |
1999 |
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Gallery 100, Brighton
39 Sussex Square, Brighton Festival Open Houses
Tank, Octopus Gallery, Saffron Walden |
1998 |
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Contemporary Watercolours, Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art
International Artists Exhibition, Gallery Oboy, San Francisco |
1997 |
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Foreign Affairs, Can Felipa, Centre Civic del Poblenou, Barcelona
Tallers Oberts, Ciutat Vella, Barcelona |
1995 |
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Linton Court Gallery, Settle
Site Gallery, Riba, Yorkshire
The Walled Garden, Queens Hall Arts Centre, Hexham |
e-mail: jo_aris@hotmail.com
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