ABOUT THE PAINTER
Joanne Hummel has exhibited at the Sid Motion Gallery, with DEEP END ECHO, a joint solo with Stephen Smith, in July 2018. She has also shown in 2017 Integration II, at the Resident Artist Saatchi Art Lounge, Old Truman Brewery, during Frieze Week London. These are just a few events to mention when researching upon Jo Hummel’s works.
She studied at Kingston University London (2001-2004) and Royal College of Art London (2004-2006). Her work has been included in satellite exhibition Afternoon Tea at the 53rd Venice Biennale with WW Gallery London, Jerwood Drawing Prize London 2012 and RA Summer Exhibition London and London Art Fair 2019. Joanne was long-listed for the Beers London Contemporary Visions exhibition and John Moores Painting Prize 2018, and also in recent years received a number of Arts Council Grants for the Arts awards for temporary installations and research residencies.
Works by Joanne Hummel are included in both public and private collections and she has a growing international collector base. Her work was featured in the Observer newspaper in an article titled ‘’Next Generation turns its back on Emin and Hirst’s conceptual artworks’ (May 201), and ‘Picking up a Picasso is one click away’ in the Times August 2013.
HUMMEL’S PRACTICE
“I set out with a phenomenological approach to making works in an attempt to understand states of anxiety and serenity in the realms of spontaneous decision making and predetermined systems. I run experiments where the process often determines the outcome and provides a safe arena for improvisation, a place where rational procedures can co-exist alongside intuition”.
Her approach could be defined as mixed-media, a talent where collage, paintings, and installations meet.
“Repetition and pattern is something that has developed instinctively as a way of eliminating anxiety from my studio practice. Its nature is cyclic and oscillates between order and disorder, uncertainty overpowering certainty and vice versa”.
The vivid messages of her artworks are hidden behind a geometry of feelings that moves continuously between quiet and noise. To Joanne, that’s the nature of human habits, a mixture of gesture which combined create all kind of social behavior.
