Photo © Jules Lister For 150 years, Weston Park Museum has reflected how people have gathered and treasured aspects of the world around them. This new exhibition, curated by the Heavy Water Collective (artists Maud Haya-Baviera, Victoria Lucas, and Joanna Whittle), examines the curious, beautiful, macabre, and magical connections people have made to the land through over 400 objects from Sheffield’s eclectic museum collections. Since prehistory, humans have sought to make se

Catalogue Essay, Joanna Whittle, 2025 When I was asked to curate a ‘landscape exhibition’ I considered how to underpin this beyond a summary of how contemporary painters approach landscape in their practices today, so it could become more an inquiry, of why the construct of ‘landscape’ still matters as a source and what this construct means to those who still choose to employ it both in spite of and because of the romanticism which wraps around it. At the time of being asked

Photo © Will Slater, 2025 Unquiet Landscapes at Yorkshire Artspace, Sheffield Unquiet Landscapes is a collaboration between Contemporary British Painting and Yorkshire Artspace, curated by Joanna Whittle. “The land will entrance us and in the end bury us, with impartiality. If it seems to have great beauty, that is because of what we are, not because of what it is… The unquiet country is you.” – Christopher Neve, Unquiet Landscape : places and ideas in twentieth-century Engli

Darkened Heart, a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, 2025, oil on rayon, 18 x 24 cm The shortlisted John Moores Painting Prize 2025 artist discusses the ideas and meaning behind her eerie paintings depicting tents, and explains how light plays an important role in her practice. #"I came to understand that my use of landscape in painting was not a pure experiencing and translation of landscape, but an understanding that it exists as a psychological terrain. The tents too b

Press Release Lost Territories EXHIBITION DATES: Friday 7 June - Friday 28 June 2024 EXHIBITION HOURS: Monday – Friday 10am-5pm ADDRESS:...

Beyond the Gaze – Reclaiming the Landscape explores contemporary landscape painting by women painters and seeks to subvert the...

An exhibition by Joanna Whittle at the University of Sheffield following a year -long period of research with the National Fairground and...

I have begun working on a project with the National Fairground and Circus Archive, part of the the Special Collections and Archive...

I am very fortunate to be working on a research project funded by Sheffield university for the Festival of the Mind which brings...

The Heavy Water Collective - myself , Maud Haya- Baviera and Victoria Lucas, are preparing for a trip to Cardiff this summer, where we...

There are seductive difficulties in the work of Joanna Whittle. Take, for example, Green (Dark Water) (2021), a canvas painted in oils...

I was a selector for the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2021 and wrote an introductory text for the accompanying catalogue: It...

In July 2021 I showed new paintings and Ceramics as Part of 'Heavy Water' at Site Gallery. This was a part of a residency with the...

Gloaming Oil on canvas, 24cm x 18cm, 2019 The winning painter of the Contemporary British Painting competition in 2019 painted the...

I will be working with the Portland Collection at the Harley Gallery in Worksop. I will be creating paintings, ceramics and prints...

When approaching your work I’m struck by its size. It’s small and detailed, which draws the viewer towards it. Have you always worked...

So honoured to be the winner of the Contemporary British Art Prize 2019! Part of the prize includes and essay by work by Griselda Pollock...

4 Oct 2019 - 6 Jan 2020 Navid Asghari, Jackie Chettur, Oliver East, Louise Hewitt, Jessica El Mal, Ruth Murray, Joanna Whittle "Second...

I am very happy have been selected f or the Freelands Foundation Artist Programme 2019 - 2021- working with SITE Gallery Sheffield:...

Misadventure, 2019, oil on perspex, 10.5 x 15 cm - one of three works exhibited as part of Just One More Thing “There’s just one more...