ARTIST STATEMENT
Joanna Kidner is a Bristol-based artist who combines domestic by-products with acoustic, visual, and bodily experiences from her rural and home environment. In her work, she explores bodily, gustatory, and domestic themes as metaphors in a multi-sensory installation format. She is currently investigating whether she can merge her ongoing pursuit of cultivating her own food with her art practice to create site-specific, intergenerational community and educational art installations. These installations aim to promote food security, improve nutritional understanding, foster deeper connections among people and natural habitats, and help address climate change through plant-based edible art installations.
Masters Major Project
Joanna gained a distinction for an MA in art and design education and her research during this time used the medium of film montage, through metaphor, composition sound and textual analysis, to explore how to better understand her position as a female artist educator. Her findings highlight and clarify how the proximity of historically embedded canons from the Enlightenment era are a corollary to those experienced in art education and the art institution today. She also considers the damaging implications of gendering art and design together with the importance for change within art education and the art establishment.
BITTER SWEET
January 2016
Materials: jam, frozen jelly, projection of boiling jam, muslin pods and aluminium bowls
Education
MA in Art and Education, Oxford Brookes University 2014 -2017: distinction
PGCE in Secondary and Post-16 Education Oxford Brookes University: Pass 2006 -2007
BA Hons in Fine Art Painting, KIAD (Kent Institute of Art and Design ) -1992 2:1
Foundation Diploma in Art and Design 1988
Artist biography
Artist in Residence with Oxford Brookes, and Maldives National University to explore environmental issues with various schools in Oxfordshire and the Maldives - March 2023
Marmalade Community art event - 'Art Can Save the World' participated with artwork and verbal and visual presentations to artists, and arts organisations in Oxfordshire - April 2022
‘Red Alert’ orchestrated and organised a participatory art event on promoting conversations about sustainable practices and the environment with Fusion Arts Oxford and 8 artists from Magdalen Rd Studios Oxford - September 2022
Green Arts Oxfordshire board member June 2021 – April 2023
‘Makers Jam’ a collaboration with Fusion Arts the Wellcome Trust, Google, Oxford, Cambridge and Newcastle universities, international and national artists and Boredom Research (creating art in collaboration with scientists on autoimmune gut disorders – June 2021
'The Bridge - Magdalen Road Studios community exhibition, the intention to build bridges within fractured community structures due to Covid. Magdalen Rd Studios 2019
'A Dangerous Field' photographic exhibition as part of Oxford Photography
Festival 16th - 19th October 2020 (Virtual)
'Art From the Heart' Zuleika Gallery raising funds for the NHS - April 26th
- May 9th, 2020 (Virtual)
'River of Styx and Elysian Fields installation exhibition and residency' (working with poet in residence Dan Simpson and Mind) Stowe National Trust Park
May - June 2020 (Postponed due to the pandemic)
Online International Art Residency April 2020
‘Artist in residence’ - Magdalen Road Studios August 2019
'Shame Viva Exhibition’ at Bellerbys College Oxford August 2017
'Evolving Forces Exhibition' Nuffield Hospital
December 2016- January 2017
‘Resistant Forces Exhibition’ OVADA (Oxfordshire Visual Arts Agency)
January 2016
'First Year MA Exhibition' Harcourt Hill Campus Oxford Brookes
University 2015
PGCE Final Exhibition Harcourt Hill Campus Oxford Brookes
University 2007
‘Creationism/Evolutionism' The Chapel Harcourt Hill Campus Oxford
Brookes University 2006
'Oxford Dreams, Plans Visions'-MAO (Modern Art Oxford) 2006
Fresh Art Islington 1992
Kent University Final Degree show 1992
Egg and Hammer series Herbert Read Gallery 1991
CONTACT ME
Thank you for your interest. For any inquiries, commission requests or studio visits, please contact Joanna Kidner's artwork today.
37 Monk Rd
Bristol
BS7 8LE
07470296550
