BIOGRAPHY
Joanna Whittle studied at Central Saint Martins and Royal College of Art. She has had solo exhibitions at Agnews (London) and the Museum of London, whilst taking part in numerous group exhibitions including, since 2018, Sidney&Matilda Gallery and Bloc Projects (Sheffield), Collyer Bristow and Herrick Gallery (London) and Portico Library Gallery (Manchester). Her work has also been exhibited in John Moores Painting Prize (2018), and Royal Academy (2019). In 2019 she was joint winner of the Harley Open Prize and Winner of the Contemporary British Painting Prize, exhibiting at The Huddersfield Art Gallery and ASC Gallery (London). In 2019 she was selected for the Freelands Artist Programme, a funded residency, working with the Freelands Foundation(London) and Site Gallery (Sheffield). In 2020 she was awarded Arts Council funding for her project ‘Between Islands’ which included working with the Portland Collection and Welbeck Estate which culminated in a solo exhibition at the Harley Gallery (Nottinghamshire). She was also the winner of the New Light Prize Exhibition Valeria Sykes Award. In 2021 she exhibited in 'Heavy Water' at Site Gallery as part of the Freelands Artist Programme residency. She is a membe rof the Contemporary British Painting Society, the Guild of St George and the Landscape Research Group. She is curently undertaking funded research projects with an archaeologist at Sheffiled Univesrty and the National Fairground and Circus Archive.
SOLO SHOWS, PROJECTS & COLLABORATONS
Heavy Water Collective, Research Micro Residency at Sheffield General Cemetery, funded by the University of Central Lancashire, September 2022
Heavy Water Collective, Research Residency at Special Collections, Cardiff University and G39, Cardiff - funded by Four Nations
The Mitre Owl, Ongoing collaborative project with David Orme. An evolving collection of artworks, artefacts and 'object perdus', first exposition held at Artcade, Sheffield, 2021
Between Islands, Arts Council funded project (DYCP) working with the Portland Collection and the Welbeck Estate, Worksop , culminating in a final exhibition at the Harley Gallery on the Welbeck estate, Nottinghamshire, 2020
City of Ideas, Workshop Residency with Artworks Sheffield in collaboration with Sidney & Matilda Gallery and Site Gallery as part of their City of ideas project.
City Without and Within, Making Ways Engagement Project, Sheffield, 2019
Flat+Earth, Curation of a landscape painting exhibition at Sidney& Matilda, Sheffield, 2019
Deluges, Public commission for Kelham Island Industrial Museum and KICA. A series of 12 plaques installed on Alma Street , Sheffield, 2018
Island and Water, Steel, Stone, Mural and ceramic pieces as part of a wider public commission- CITU , Sheffield, 2018
Clapton to Centre Point, 1183 Trees, Museum of London, A year long residency funded by The London Arts Café in collaboration with the Natural History Museum. Culminating in a final show at the Museum of London, 2003-2004
Badly Led Lives, Tower records / Piccadilly, London, an installation at Piccadilly Underground Station in association with Bowie Arts, 2002
New Paintings, Agnews, London, Solo Show, 2001
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2022
The Fool, Air Space Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent
Volta Basel, Charlie Smith Gallery, Basel
RASE, Royal Academy, London
Vitalistic Fantasies, Contemporary British Painting, Elysium Gallery, Manchester
New Light Retrospective, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
Paradoxes Contemporary British Painting Society, Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight
Aggregate, Freelands Foundation, London
2021
New Light Prize Exhibition, Tullie House Museum, Carlisle
Silent Disco, Curated by Graham Crowley, Greystone Industries, Suffolk
Heavy Water, Site Gallery (Freelands Artist Programme Residency), Sheffield
Urban, Art Social Project, Sheffield
Emergence, Rise Art, London
Human Nature, Linden Hall Studio, Kent
New Light Prize Exhibition, The Biscuit Factory Gallery, Newcastle
Darkness At Noon, Contemporary British Painting Society, APT Gallery, London
The Lockdown Interviews Exhibition, ArtTopTen, Cello Factory, London
2020
Plausible Objects / Difficult Things, virtual exhibition curated by Professor Frances Woodley
Thing Worlds, Spot Korin, Kyoto, Japan
The Viewing Room, UK New Artists, virtual exhibition
Vitalistic Fantasies, The Cello Factory
Vitalistic Fantasies, BEEP Biennial, virtual exhibition
YES/NO, Contemporary British Painting, virtual exhibition
New Light Prize Exhibition, Scarborough Art Gallery, Scarborough
Prosaic Mosaic, Globe Arts, Slaithwaite
Contemporary British Painting Prize, ASC Gallery, London
2019
Contemporary British Painting Prize, Huddersfield Art Gallery
Rogue Women,Rogue Galleries, Manchester
Bethlehem Boys Club III, Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield
Prosaic/ Mosaic, Bloc Projects, Sheffield
Second Nature, Portico Gallery, Manchester
Just One More Thing, Asylum, Suffolk
Two Fold , OA Studios, Salford
This Is Not An Oak Tree, Jugg Art Foundation, Suffolk
The Immaculate Dream, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy
Place, Boston Castle, Rotherham
Eight Paint, Gage Gallery, Sheffield
Harley Open, Harley Gallery, Worksop
Flat+Earth, Sidney & Matilda , Sheffield
2018
Bethlehem Boys Club II, Sidney & Matilda , Sheffield
Confluence at Bloc, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, 2018
Land♦Scape, Exchange Berlin, Berlin, 2018
Confluence, Herrick Gallery, London, 2018
Uncommon or Garden, Jugg Art Foundation, Suffolk
John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Brownfield Research Centre, AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent
Public Commission, Kelham Island, Sheffield
2016/17
Strangelands, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, 2017
End of Beginnings, Mandell's Gallery, Norwich, 2016
Various Species, Greystone Industries, Wickham Market, 2016
Sad But True, Jerwood Dance House, Ipswich, 2016
2000-2015
Atrium Summer Exhibition, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, 2015
Atrium Winter Show, University of Suffolk, Ipswich, 2014
Winter Show, Subterranean Boulevard Gallery, Ipswich, 2014
Celeste Art Prize, London, 2006
Deck of Cards, 39 Gallery, London, 2006
Group Show, Keith Talent Gallery, London, 2005
Hand In Hand We Walk Alone, Clapham Art Gallery, London, 2005
Pocketscopic, Sartorial Contemporary Art, London, 2005
Christmas Tree, 39 Gallery, London, 2004
Aftershock, Oneaspace, Hong Kong, 2004
Pub Crawl, 39 Gallery, London, 2004
Francis Bacon as an Exquisite Corpse - 39 Gallery, London, 2003
Drawing Show, Keith Talent Gallery, London, 2003
Four Colleges Show, AT Kearney, London, 2002
New Painters, Group Show, Agnews, 2001
Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, New York, 2000
Assembly, Stepney City, London, 2000
Summer Show, Beaux Arts, London, 2000
AWARDS, PRIZES AND RESIDENCIES
New Light Prize, Valeria Sykes Award, 2020
Contemporary British Painting Prize, 2019
Freelands Artist Programme Residency at Site Gallery, London & Sheffield, 2019-2022
Harley Open Prize, First Prize (joint), 2019
LAC Residencies in the City, London, 2004
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Painting Prize, London, 2000
TI Group Painting Prize, London, 2000
NADFAS Greater London Art Bursary, London, 1999
John Crane Summer Travel Award, London, 1999
Bundy, New York Travel Award, London, 1999
Amy Sadur Freidlander Memorial Art Fund, London, 1998
BIBLIOGRAPHY / PUBLICATIONS
Smaller is Beautiful, the tiny but triumphant comeback of the art miniature, How to Spend It, Financial Times, 2021
Vitalistic Fantasies, Catalogue, essay by Dr Catrin Webster, 2020
Plausible Objects, Difficult Things, Catalogue, essay by Dr Frances Woodley, 2020
Fresh Paint, Artist & Illustrators magazine (June) , 2020
A Celebration of Painting, an essay by Griselda Pollock, 2020
Contemporary British Painting Prize, Catalogue, 2019
John Moores Painting Prize, Exhibition Catalogue, 2018
Celeste Art Prize, Catalogue, 2006
Art & Cities, Issue 14, Catalogue, 2004
Miser & Now, 2004
Art & Cities, Issue No.13, 2003
Joanna Whittle: New Paintings, Catalogue, 2001
Time Out, October, 2000
The TI Art Group Collection, Catalogue of Collection, 2000
Assembly, Catalogue, 2000
EDUCATION
MA Fine Art, Painting, Royal College of Art, London, 2000
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Painting, Central Saint Martins, London,1997
MEMBERSHIPS
Landscape Research Group, Since 2022
Guild of St George, Since 2021
Contemporary British Painting Society, Since 2019
