Jo Addison is an artist, based in London.
She is a lecturer at Norwich School of Art & Design and University of Westminster.
Made with a deliberately shorthand approach and using quick, immediate materials Addison’s work loosely depicts mundane or overlooked occurrences in the world around her.
| 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 Shows | |
| 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 | |
| 2010 | 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 | |
| 2009 | Reconstructing the Old House ed. Benet Spencer & David Ryan, Anglia Ruskin University 2009 ISBN 978-0-907262-73-2 |
| 2009 | Snow Falls Upwards by Kate Fowle, UCA, NUCA, DMU 2009 ISBN 9781857213942 |
| 2003 | to be continued> Artists intervention into the public realm ed. Deborah Smith, Kate Fowle, BT Batsford, 2003 ISBN 0-7134-8794-1 |
| Selected Reviews | |
| 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 | |
| Record Releases | |
| 2006 | Ketchup & Marmalade Ignatub compilation, Artist: Lapwing |
| 2000 | Different Noise Mind Horizon compilation, Artist: Lapwing |
| 1999 | Pearl Necklace Dishy compilation, Artist: Lapwing |