radiolariam by Jo Berry
When did you start your creative practice?
1990.
How would you describe your artistic style to someone unfamiliar with your work?
Observational, digital drawing, data montage, film inspired by and driven by working with Life Science (objects invisible to the eye taken with advanced imaging and microscopy).
What themes or ideas do you find yourself returning to most often?
Objects invisible to the eye taken with advanced imaging and microscopy, complex
structures, inspired by science.
What is your creative process from idea to finished piece is it always the same?
Starting through working with a specialist, gathering data then making work that can be
disseminated.
Is there a particular piece of yours that feels especially meaningful? Why?
Radiolaria – because of their structural complexity. The drawings take over a year to make.
What do you find challenging as an artist?
Time.
Do you ever have creative blocks, how do you keep motivated?
Yes but I always need to make work.
Who are the artists (past or present) who have strongly influenced you?
Gemma Anderson-Tempini, Joseph Beuys, Artists Placement Scheme.
Has your style or perspective evolved over time?
Yes
What tools, materials, or techniques are essential to your practice?
The computer, microscopy, Data, core imaging specialists.
How do you balance artistic expression with practical concerns like income or marketing, social media?
I work a lot.
If you could give the younger you advice what would it be?
Say yes.
Have you got a project / award/ residency/ or idea are you excited to share with us?
Most recently I have been working with the Natural History Museum, London (HMS
Challenger Scanning Electron Images) and on a Wellcome Trust Grant
called DIALOG: Understanding Disorganisation – A Language-Focused Global
Initiative in Psychosis, funded by the Wellcome Trust (Grant no. 314138/Z/24/Z;
Award: CAD $9,496,545). Principal Applicant: Lena Palaniyappan (Douglas Hospital
Research Centre, Montreal, Canada).Co-applicants: Valentina Bambini (Istituto
Universitario di Studi Superiori di Pavia, Italy), Neil Harrison (Cardiff University, UK),
Tilo Kircher (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany), Gina Kuperberg (Tufts
University, USA), Susan Rossell (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia),
Krish Singh (Cardiff University, UK), and Iris Sommer (Cardiff University, UK).The
DIALOG initiative includes collaborators from multiple international sites (see:
Douglas Research Centre).
'Joanne is contributing as a practice-based researcher and visual artist (Loughborough University), supporting the project’s knowledge translation arm through visual data montages and art exhibitions that integrate lived experience perspectives. Joanne's prior collaboration with Palaniyappan includes the exhibition Light It Up (joberry.co.uk/commissions/commission/light-it-up).'
If your work could evoke one feeling or reaction in viewers, what would it be?
Not sure ?
What is your website and how do we find you on social media?
