I am an artist who believes that art can reach beyond aesthetics and into the unconscious mind. Paintings and drawings using magnifiers recently shown in a solo show at The Other Gallery, London, March 2013 and The Red Gallery, Urban Dialogues in London, Dec 2012.
My haunted landscapes and magic objects are devised by projecting the thoughts that happen in the imaginary realms concealed beneath the logic and reason of the mind.
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Past work has included animated paintings. Below is a video showing excerpts from this and below that an interview about this work:-
A short studio interview, produced by UCA Animation Research Centre:-
'There's no one way of looking at JoWonder's work. There's no one way of looking at anything! We only have to shut one eye and you get a different angle, turn our head quickly for another, so imagine (ha) what the brain can do through the lens of our perceptions, our values, memory, body and past. There can also be a backward telescopic journey into childhood, when our imaginations were quite erotic - as a part of our life force- at a time before we become erotic.' Jan Woolf
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Below video of JoWonder And The Psychic Tea Leaves performance,(running time 18.30 minutes)Selected for Whitechapel gallery's First Thursdays Top 5 Exhibitions, this will also be a part of Cabaret Futura, plese scroll down for other films:
The above performance was recorded in the Belfry of St Johns Church, Bethnal Green, London, UK,2012. A part of First Thursdays (awarded one of top 5)organised by Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Scroll down from here to see some of some of my animated films and installations*
In 2007, 'Flatlanders', one of my video installations was featured in Guildford Cathedral in connection with a science debate around the nuclear experiment at 'The Centre for European Nuclear Research'(CERN) This was a collaboration with the The Very Revd Victor Stock, scientists Professors Brian Cox, and Jim Al-Khalili.Also in 'The New Future' and exhibition of three artists at The Columbia Arts Center, USA See excerpt below*
Interested in the aesthetics of combining the visceral and the emotional with the broken, fragmented, coded and glitched language of digital imagery, I created '6 Days Goodbye Poems Of Ophelia,' research funded by The Wellcome Trust and with a microbiology input by Dr Simon Park. The piece features an animated version of John Millais Ophelia created out of bacteria which asks; Where does Ophelia's body begin and where does it end? The work has an interactive element - and I am still recieving contributions by an electronic answer phone- to pay tribute to Ophelia by poem, song music etc. Call: 44(0)207-1839366.
The Day 4, section below includes a sound track of answer phone messages from, children, poets and strangers. Excerpt from Ophelia project below
My background as a film maker and animator influences my practice and I am developing an idea to animate a version of the resurrection.
Being an animator sometimes gives me the power to create movement in my imaginary worlds and has informed and nurtured my painting which shares the great narrative tradition of fairy tales. Like Bruno Bettelheim in his great academic work The Uses of Enchantment, I understand the projection of an individual's fears, dreams, joys, into those worlds. In this sense I have a shared background with the surrealists, and as a student of Buddhism understand the desire to see the truth of something 'all at once'. The psychologists call this Gestalt. My work is part of that search for a place of 'no place, a time of 'no time.'
Some animated films below:-
The Brooch pin And The Sinful Clasp:A man falls in love with a ballerina that he sees dancing at the top of a tower block and sets off on a journey to find her, he finds out that the ballerina was only an evil mechanical brooch on a giant 's shawl.
Winner Grand Priz Zageb Festival and Best Newcomer Cardif animation festival and The Time Out Film Award,UK
Sawdust For Brains And The Key Of Wisdom: A woman is transformed into a puppet by a sorcerer with a magic key and given a chance to see the mechanisms that create our fate on earth? Using Voodoo she manages to shrink the sorcerer and find a lover . The film plays with our understanding of time, puppets, magic and avatars
A stop frame animated video installation melting sugary shoes, A story of disappointing love.
Shown as a part of 'T1+2 Gallery Annex Projects', exhibited in Rupert Sanderson's in Mayfair, London, June 2008. Commissioned originaly for the grand opening of The Lux Cinema, Hoxton Square, London 1997.
Some more detailed information:-
Previous works have been exhibited and screened internationally including: Camden Arts Centre, New Contemporaries- ICA, Whitechapel Open, Alnolfini Bristol, National Film Theatre, Channel 4 Television, BBC2, Carlton television, Tate Britain, Guildford Cathedral. 'BachModern Project' Austria, Sofia Bulgaria, Bangkok Thailand, Hamburg , Stuttgart, Washington DC Arts Centre, Chamalieres, Annecy, Madrid, Zagreb republic of Croatia, Krakow Poland, Toronto Canada.
1991 commissioned by the BBC Bristol to make The Weatherhouse for a New Directors slot. 1993 Channel 4 Television commissioned her to write and direct, 'Sawdust For Brains And The Key Of Wisdom'(see above)shown on C4 and in two special UK cinema programs [Showcase For The Avant-garde' and 'Grotesque Imaginings' at the National Film Theatre and international festivals. 1990 'The Brooch Pin And The Sinful Clasp', (was winner of the Grand Priz Animafest Zagreb) and is distributed on 'Connoisseur Video' this work was also a part of 'Between Imagination and Reality' an Arts Council tour. The work is also referenced in 'From Beast To Blonde' author Marina Warner.
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