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Joanne Lee
Joanne Lee is a Brighton-based artist and writer whose work explores a curiosity about everyday things. She is Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University. http://web.mac.com/generalistjo
Reviews
Soon all your neighbours will be artists [26 October 2011]
Soon all your neighbours will be artists is a curious title for a publication whose focus is the very difficulty of sustaining a creative practice in today's economic climate. I've been wondering if it implies that the hand-to-mouth existence of Read on…
Published by Eastside Projects with Aid & Abet, Extra Special People, Spike Associates, WARP
Voodoo Chanel [20 April 2011]
My experience of Voodoo Chanel begins with the 'VoodooFesto'. This text functions as the show's manifesto-cum-press release, and appears in insistent capitals on the Grey Area website. It also recurs repeatedly on the gallery walls and is offered as Read on…
Grey Area, Brighton
5-27 March
Pile [19 January 2011]
Nottingham has been positively stuffed with contemporary art across the last few months, thanks to the British Art Show 7 and its attendant fringe programme, Sideshow 2010. There’s been a good deal of interesting work in a variety of Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
20 November - 11 December 2010
Curating and the Educational Turn [24 September 2010]
Contemporary art seems fascinated by education right now: there’s a sizeable (and ever increasing) list of publications exploring how artists are taught or learn, and to what ends; a host of conferences debating pedagogy of various species; Read on…
Eds. Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson
Open Editions: Occasional Table Critical Series, De Appel 2010
ISBN 978-0-949004-18-5
Off The Latch [1 July 2010]
Off The Latch, a collaborative project by artists Hannah Bishop, Eleanor Lane and Rebecca Stern, occupied stall 41 of Brighton’s Open Market from late May to early June 2010. Asserting their interest in alternatives to the white-cube space, Read on…
Stall 41, Open Market, Brighton
24 May - 5 June 2010
Grace Siregar: Territories [26 May 2010]
Much of Grace Siregar's exhibition at Grey Area is autobiographical. 'Territories' opens with a map and handwritten list detailing a series of locations – Sumatra, East Timor, the Netherlands and the UK – where the Indonesian born artist Read on…
Grey Area, Brighton
10-25 April
Part 1 [31 January 2010]
Sixes and Sevens is the collective name for a group of recent graduates from Nottingham Trent University. I have to declare an interest here, given that I’m a lecturer on the Fine Art course from which they came, but owing to the Read on…
Surface Gallery, Nottingham
10 - 14 November 2009
It's All About Paradise 2 [26 November 2009]
Blank Gallery is on the western fringes of Brighton and Hove, well beyond the city's elegant Regency Terraces and broad suburban avenues. Part of a shift east and west along the south coast as creative types seek more affordable places to work and Read on…
Blank Gallery, Brighton
17-30 October
Louise Bristow: Hidden Persuader [26 May 2009]
To those literate in cultural or media studies, the title Louise Bristow has chosen for her exhibition at Brighton's Permanent Gallery will have an instant resonance: it is borrowed from Vance Packard's influential 1957 study Hidden Persuaders, one Read on…
Louise Bristow: Hidden Persuader
Permanent Gallery, Brighton
28 March – 26 April
Walk with me [12 May 2009]
Most of us will have come across audio guides in museums or some stately homes: there at the entry desk is a keen-looking chap desperate to convince us that spending a few pounds to hire a set of headphones and the attached player will enrich the Read on…
Nottingham Castle, Nottingham
10 April - 7 June 2009
Thomas Hirschhorn: The Incommensurable Banner [24 November 2008]
Thomas Hirschhorn's work 'The Incommensurable Banner', premiered at this year's Brighton Photo Biennial, fills the length of the Fabrica gallery. Its coarse fabric is roughly pasted with colour images whose paper buckles from the glue with which Read on…
Brighton Photo Biennial, Fabrica, Brighton
3 October - 16 November
Cut n Shunt [5 August 2008]
A hot and sultry day, the clouds building and everyone longing for a storm to relieve the tension: walking to the gallery everything was already too much, the city noises and smells strangely concentrated, sweat building clammily on my brow. Read on…
Contemporary Art Projects, London
20 June - 27 July 2008
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