Jo Addison
Noddle, 2019
Oven baked clay, Edition of 10, produced for Camden Arts Centre, dimensions variable
Jo Addison in collaboration with Lucy Newman
Possible Object II, 2015
Digital animation displayed on Sony Cube, Edition of 3
Jo Addison
Noddle, 2019
Oven baked clay, Edition of 10, produced for Camden Arts Centre, dimensions variable
Jo Addison in collaboration with Lucy Newman
Possible Object II, 2015
Digital animation displayed on Sony Cube, Edition of 3
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
Digital Animation.
A continuous loop played on a 29" Sony Cube Monitor
Digital Animation.
A continuous loop played on a 29" Sony Cube Monitor