‘Discovery and resurrection: of salvaging, rebuilding, repurposing, redefining until, finally an act of transformation takes place. What begins as a chunk of wall, a littered floor, a sheet of tarpaulin, an old window frame, becomes an object that performs a persuasive act of memory. Her work stands as a representation of time passing and lives lived’
Liz Jobey FT Weekend Magazine.
Jo Dennis (b 1973, UK) is a British artist based in London. Her practice spans two decades working across painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. Dennis explores our emotional connection to place and memory, specifically in relation to ruination, surface, and decay, and how these themes link with notions of mortality.
Dennis received her MA Painting at The Royal College of Art London (2022) and BA Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Theory at Goldsmiths College London (2002). Recent exhibitions include; Dallas Art Fair 2024, PM/AM Gallery (solo), Town Hall Disco, Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, 2024 (solo); Matter, Flowers Gallery, London, 2023 (curator and artist); Absent without Leave, Sid Motion Gallery, 2022 (solo) Ares, OHSH Projects, Cromwell Place, London, 2023; Positions, Alma Pearl Gallery, London, 2023. Dennis is a recipient of a Grants for the Arts from Arts Council England 2023-24. She is the co-founder of several artist lead projects; Pigeon Park (2021-22) Peckham 24 Photo Festival (2016 - 2024) AMP Gallery (2015 - 2018) and Asylum Chapel (2010 - current) She has collaborated with Sid Motion Gallery on five solo projects (2017-2023) including the launch of her first artists book ‘I touched this with my hand, I touched that with my eye’ (2020) Dennis’ work is part of the TiA Collection, Santa Fe, the Soho House collection and numerous private collections.
Her work was recently included in ’The Book Of Ladders, 100 Contemporary Art Works’ edited by Paul Carey Kent and Adeline de Monseignat 2023, and ’Site Specific’ by Tall Poppy Press 2023. An essay about her practice by art critic and curator John Slyce can be read here. ‘Margins of Error and Expectation’ an essay written by David Campany as an afterward for Dennis’ book ‘I touched this with my hand, I touched that with my eye’ 2021 can be read here.
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Liz Jobey FT Weekend Magazine.
Jo Dennis (b 1973, UK) is a British artist based in London. Her practice spans two decades working across painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. Dennis explores our emotional connection to place and memory, specifically in relation to ruination, surface, and decay, and how these themes link with notions of mortality.
Dennis received her MA Painting at The Royal College of Art London (2022) and BA Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Theory at Goldsmiths College London (2002). Recent exhibitions include; Dallas Art Fair 2024, PM/AM Gallery (solo), Town Hall Disco, Newchild Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, 2024 (solo); Matter, Flowers Gallery, London, 2023 (curator and artist); Absent without Leave, Sid Motion Gallery, 2022 (solo) Ares, OHSH Projects, Cromwell Place, London, 2023; Positions, Alma Pearl Gallery, London, 2023. Dennis is a recipient of a Grants for the Arts from Arts Council England 2023-24. She is the co-founder of several artist lead projects; Pigeon Park (2021-22) Peckham 24 Photo Festival (2016 - 2024) AMP Gallery (2015 - 2018) and Asylum Chapel (2010 - current) She has collaborated with Sid Motion Gallery on five solo projects (2017-2023) including the launch of her first artists book ‘I touched this with my hand, I touched that with my eye’ (2020) Dennis’ work is part of the TiA Collection, Santa Fe, the Soho House collection and numerous private collections.
Her work was recently included in ’The Book Of Ladders, 100 Contemporary Art Works’ edited by Paul Carey Kent and Adeline de Monseignat 2023, and ’Site Specific’ by Tall Poppy Press 2023. An essay about her practice by art critic and curator John Slyce can be read here. ‘Margins of Error and Expectation’ an essay written by David Campany as an afterward for Dennis’ book ‘I touched this with my hand, I touched that with my eye’ 2021 can be read here.
Press:
Curatorial Affairs
A Corner With
Curatorial:
Peckham 24
AMP Gallery
Asylum
‘Time Lines’ C-type limited edition print