Jo Addison

Jo Addison puts in process an encounter with things.

In her sculptures, resolute yet ambiguous forms are navigated around language and singular interpretation. In work that is apparently casually made, the legacy of a paradoxically slow and often repetitive way of making is cautiously disclosed.

Fixed meanings are abandoned to process and, often assuming anthropomorphic qualities, the finished pieces are the result of a method in which the nub or essence of a thing is revealed. The relationship between objects and the body, and of objects to one another is intrinsic to the haptic and spatial curiosity at the heart of Addison’s practice.

Education

1993 – 1995  H.Dip Fine Art Print Slade School of Fine Art U.C.L
1989 – 1992  BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture Norfolk Institute of Art and Design

Solo Exhibitions

2020
Dread One Day At A Time, Tintype Summer Window, Tintype, London, 2020

2015
Stop Bugging Me – Frame 3: Jo Addison, Tintype, London

2014 
Join the World, Mrs Rick’s Cupboard, Primary, Nottingham

2013
Not Trees and People Tintype, London

2007
No One Sees The Barn Outpost, Norwich
Visitors Five Years, London

2000
What is it exactly that you do? Arts Council Year of the Artist

Selected Group Shows

2022
In gratitude for all the times we start over, Flatland Proects, Bexhill, UK
Things, exhibition of new works, in a vacant, renovated terraced house, Norwich, UK
Mud, Artwave, Susses, UK

2021
NOT PAINTING, Copperfield, London

2019
Jo Addison was commissioned to make an edition for Camden Arts Centre, all sales going to support their programme

2017
Jo Addison curated (with Adam Gillam and Mark Harris) and showed in Work Work, a group show of 26 artists, Tintype,London
Fully Awake, curated by Ian Hartshore & Sean Kaye at Studio Pavilion, House for Art Lovers, Glasgow
We Are Publication: HOLD Live Event 01, Stanley Picker Gallery, London

2016
Anniversary Show, Royal Standard, Liverpool
Good things come, The Gallery, Plymouth College of Art

2015
Alioli, Outpost, Norwich
Finite Project Altered When Open, David Dale Gallery, Glasgow

2014
Combines & Model, Liverpool

2013
House 62 Cranmer Rd, London House
Album2 Five Years, London
The Hope of Wrecks University of Hertfordshire Galleries, Museum of St Albans
Easy does it David Dale Gallery Glasgow, Aid & Abet Cambridge, Supercollider Blackpool
Unspecific Objects Malgras Naudet Manchester, The Royal Standard Liverpool

2012
Cave Liverpool
Crazee Golf  Tintype, London
Ideas are faster Five Years, London

2011
So there in Number 18 Parlour, London
Creekside Open 2011 selected by Phyllida Barlow / Dexter Dalwood

2010
Points of Address selected by Peter Suchin, Outpost, Norwich
Album  Five Years, London
Kaavous-Bhoyroo editions www.kaavous-bhoyroo.com
Jo Addison & Alice Walton Centrum, Berlin
Whitstable Biennale Artists multiple, UK

2009
Free Association Area 53, Vienna
Reconstructing the Old House The Nunnery Gallery, London & Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge
Cortez Arrives Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury
Sale Royal Standard, Liverpool
That was a Good Day Five Years, London
Animated-Wysing Arts Contemporary Wysing Arts Cambridge

2008
At Home Voewood Projects, UK
Beck’s Fusions Manchester

2007
There Is No Future For Us Now Five Years, London

2006
Whitstable Biennale UK

2005
For and From The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone

2004
Doubtful Pleasures Apt Gallery, London
Tempered Ground Danielle Arnaud, London
Zwielichtige Augenblicke Felix Ringel Gallerie,Dusseldorf
Eating at Another’s Table The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone

2003
Tonite! Spanganga, San Francisco
26.09.03 Flaca Gallery, London
Friday Night, Saturday Told Galleri Skuggi, Reykjavik

2000
Magazine Centre of Attention, London
Beautiful Oxo Tower Wharf, London

1999
to be continued > The New Art Gallery, Walsall

1998
Beachlife F.A.T, Islington Festival, London

1997
Wait and See…what’s for dinner? Towner Gallery, Eastbourne
Special Offer One Size Fits All Gallery, Arnhem

1996
Bitter Twist U.K.S Gallery Oslo, Margaret Harvey Gallery St Albans

1995
Outpost F.A.T, Edinburgh Festival

1994
British Festival New Contemporaries Taipei, Taiwan

Publications

Regulation, Resistance, Readiness and Care: What can be learnt by performing the peripheral behaviours of artists? Addison J. Kidd N., 2019
Live Resource, Book chapter, in Leap into Action: Critical Performative Pedagogies in Art & Design Education., Addison J. Kidd N. ed. Campbell L. Peter Lang USA, 2017
Book chapter in In Site of Conversation eds. Turvey L. Walton A. Daly E, Tate ISBN 978-1-84976-473-5, 2016
Learning it …. Addison J. Walton A. Article in Playground 4 eds. Turvey L. Walton A. Tate Learning publication, 2014
e Addison J. Kidd N. Eds. Limited edition publication Alighiero Boetti retrospective. Tate, 2009
Reconstructing the Old House ed. Benet Spencer & David Ryan, Anglia Ruskin University 2009 ISBN 978-0-907262-73-2
Snow Falls Upwards by Kate Fowle, UCA, NUCA, 2009
to be continued> Artists Intervention into the Public Realmed. Deborah Smith, Kate Fowle, BT Batsford2003 ISBN 0-7134-8794-1, 2003

Selected Reviews
2018
a-n; Inventory of Behaviours: Finding value in the things artists do when not making, Trevor Smith
2013
this is tomorrow Ciara Healy
Garageland Travis Riley
2012
Time Out Francis Lamb
this is tomorrow Contemporary Art Magazine, Ciara Healy
2004
Miser & Now Issue 5 p.58, Doubtful Pleasures, Max Mosscrop
Frankfurter Allgemeine 12 June p. 50, This bird will die, Catrin Lorch Zeitung
Frieze Jan/Feb Issue p.102/3, Review, Julian Myers
2000
Artists Newsletter Dec Issue, Media Attention for artists
1999
Artists Newsletter Oct Issue, Review, Simon Webb
Public Art Journal Vol 1. no. 2 p. 38
1997
Frieze Nov/Dec p.87, Review Neil Brown
The Art Newspaper Oct vol.viii, no.74
Kaleidoscope Radio 4 15 Aug, Review
The Independent 2 Aug Don’t Scoff, John Windsor
The Guardian 19 Aug Making a meal of it, Laura Cumming
1996
Aftenposten 7 May, Young Brits with a twisted view of Life, John Harbo
Dagbladet 15 May, Nye Briter, Harald Flor
Arnhemse Courant 15 May, Review, Henk Meutgert

Selected Performance Events, Talks, Conferences
2020
Inventory of Behaviours, Uniqlo Tate Lates, Tate Tanks
The Artist’s Journey
NAFAE Annual Conference Sheffield Hallam University
2019
In conversation: Jo Addison & Bill Leslie
Freelands Foundation London. Discussion of repetition as a strategy for fine art research in making and teaching.
2018 – 2019
Inventory of Behaviours, Tate Exchange
Delivered Performance Paper
2018
Felt Knowledges
Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference. Delivered performance paper.
Inventory of Behaviours
a-n Assembly Cardiff. Delivered Performance Paper Inventory of Behaviours.
2017
What is a studio & how do we use one?
blip blip blip East St Arts Leeds. Delivered Performance Event Inventory of Behaviours.
2014
Professionalism in the Curriculum
Leeds College of Art. Delivered Performance Lecture ‘Podium Piece no.1’.
2012
Towards an Avant Gardest conception of Gallery Education
Tate. Presented Workshop.
Art in Context
ELIA 5th Annual Teachers’ Academy Conference Porto. Delivered paper ‘By Instruction – No Working Title’
Landing Place the local in the international
Engage Conference Cardiff. Delivered performance paper ‘The And thing’.

Record Releases

2006
Ketchup & Marmalade Ignatub compilation, Artist: Lapwing

2000
Different Noise Mind Horizon compilation, Artist: Lapwing

1999
Pearl Necklace Dishy compilation, Artist: Lapwing