JO MARTIN

An interdisciplinary artist from Yorkshire, based in Kent. My work takes on the subject of ‘support’, structural and bodily. My practice is informed by environmental memory and labour as art. Using traditional art and domestic materials, reflecting a womxn artist’s life, I fuse art with domestic labour. Disrespecting the hierarchy of materials and giving value to the unseen repetitive actions of domestic and maternal work, recognising its value and positioning it within art spaces.

Selected exhibitions:

2024

Tribute, Uncovered Collective, Safehouse, London
Artificial Sun, Under The Roof, Arts Event, Candid Arts Gallery
RA Summer Show, London
Murmuration, Group Show, ADL Productions and J/ MGallery, London
CANCAN, group show, ASC gallery Vauxhall
Blood Sweat and Fears, group show, Proposition Gallery, Chalk Farm

2023

Art Show, the Tabernacle, group show, Portobello,
Fell down a well, group show, ESOP Studios

2022

Stars Under My Armpits, group show The ESOP Wood Green London
Mythical Political, The Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline, Scotland

2021

Art Matters, The ESOP, The Art Pavilion, Mile End, London
SPLINT! group show, David Mach RA studio, Havelock Walk, Forest Hill, London

70cmx55cmx2cm
jute]dirty thread]gauze]household paint]ink]bleach]wool packaging]peeled poured paint]
#contemporaryfiberart #textileart #wallsculpture

62cmx50cmx3cm
jute]dirty sparkle]gauze]household paint]ink]wool packaging]peeled poured paint]

#contemporaryfiberart #textileart #wallsculpture

from back to front |wool packaging| stretch fleece fabric| jute| gauze| general dirt| stains of ink |peeled poured house paint|
stitches

73cmx51x3cm

#contemporaryfibreart #textileart #wallsculpture

Thank you to @uncoveredcollective A brilliantly curated show with such thoughtful work. The show ‘TRIBUTE - to our future silicon overlords’ exhibition was held at Safehouse, Peckham.
“Uncovered Collective is a curation team whose o

Thanks to @under_the__roof for an incredible night at ‘Artificial Sun’ Candid Arts Gallery @candidartstrust where my work was in conversation with projections, soundscapes, sculptures, and performances inspired by Plato’s Cave. An i

Thanks to @thefluxreview for the feature. The works shown here are from the last two shows on the EADY 23-24 course at The Essential School of Painting.

“Mending Minds and Fibers -Exploring Support and Decay”

1st page @aschandbagfactor

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I’ll be showing this work in Artificial Sun’ 26.10.24, 6-10pm
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@under_the__roof Join us for ‘Artificial Sun’ 26.10.24, 6pm-10pm, Candid Arts Gallery.

Step into a world where nature is artificially recreated through project

pleased to say that I have been included in

@uncoveredcollective

TRIBUTE - TO OUR FUTURE SILICONE OVERLORDS

PRIVATE VIEW
FRI 1ST NOV (6PM TO 9PM)
SAT 2ND NOV (10AM TO 4PM)
SUN 3RD NOV (10AM TO 4PM)

SAFEHOUSE
137 COPELAND ROAD
SE15 3SN

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“Abstraction in chaos, being pulled back down to earth, aspirations to fly are freighted with burdens, like a crushed paper aeroplane sinking into a puddle. Jo Martins beautifully formal constructions are not so much a rag and bone shop of the soul as constructivism reinvented by a cowboy builder. Painting has endless possibilities but sometimes it is necessary to restrict oneself in order to achieve one’s vision, as is the case with Jo Martin, whose ambitious assemblages are created out of somewhat forlorn, but nevertheless evocative materials. She has restricted her palette to black and white, ochres and the natural colours of sacking and other found materials. From these humble means she constructs vast assemblages which blur the boundaries of sculpture and painting, drawing and installation.”

— Hughie O’Donoghue RA