Jo Kernon | The Work
Statement
Jo Kernon works with poetic notions. Her work urges people to question, feel and connect. She wants to move and touch others through her artistic practice which spans painting, interventions, video, audio and text. She works closely with other artists, and is a founding member of three artists collectives: The Lost Journeys Travel Agency, The Barefoot Dialogues and The Cupboard Collective. Her key questions include the potential that contemporary art has to reach individuals. How can artists inspire personal and collective transformation through the discovery of what is hidden or neglected? How does imagination open up possibilities? How can poetic visual communication touch someone deeply and why is this so important? Jo Kernon lives and works in East London, she has a MA in Social Sculpture (Interdisciplinary Arts) from Oxford Brookes University and studied painting and sculpture at Emerson College in Sussex.
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Exhibitions
2011, The Books I Haven’t Read, Audio Installation, Group Exhibition, Old Boot Factory, Oxford www.inwithbetween.blogspot.com
2011, Barefoot Dialogues, Collaborative Process, Jericho, Oxford www.barefootdialogues.tumblr.com
2011, Experimental Storytelling & Artist Talk, Art Jericho, Oxford www.artjericho.com
2010, Selection of Paintings, ASC Open Studios, London
2010, Lost Journeys Travel Agency,, Day & Night, Modern Art Oxford, UK www.modernartoxford.org.uk
2010, Spit & Scrub, ASC Open Studios, London
2010, For Crying Out Loud, Paintings, Group Exhibition, Islington Exhibits, London
2010, Telling Dreams, A performance, Oxford
2010, Meditations on a Concourse, A short film, Oxford & London
2009, Selection of Paintings, Group Exhibition, Wretham Lodge, In collaboration with Water Project SENEGAL, East Sussex, UK
2009, Sculpture, Group Exhibition, Vidarasen Landsby, Norway
2009, Selection of Paintings, Emerson Trust Cooperative, East Sussex, UK
Collections & Commissions
2010-2011, The National Trust, Wood Design, Valley Farm Flatford Mill, Suffolk, UK
2009, RSPB, Educational Children’s Incentive, Wood Design, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland
2009, Sculptural Oak Bench, Private Client, Saffron Walden| UK
2009, Stone Sculpture, Private Client| London
2008, Oak & Cedar Gate, Emerson College Trust, East Sussex, UK
06-09, Several Paintings in Private Collections, UK
Projects & Workshops
2011, Research Afilliate, University of the Trees www.universityofthetrees.org
2011| Research Affiliate, Social Sculpture Research Unit www.social-sculpture.org, Oxford Brookes University