I am a visual arts activist using the power of image to challenge established notions making mysterious stop frame animations, using diverse materials such as champagne wrappers, bacteria and poetry. I also make paintings that are full of contradictions.
I love working with living materials and to trying to portray unseen entities. For example, I'm currently working on a project that includes an animated image of the famous pre-raphaelite painting of 'Ophelia' made out of bacteria which now incorporates answer phone message poetry sent to her by singers, poets, children and strangers.
We don't see enough beauty in the truth that we are really quite insignificant and create a fantasy idea of the world around us. My solo web site is :www.jowonder.com
See below excerpts from a 2010 performance piece 'JoWOnder and the Psychic Tea Leaves
Please participate in this project by leaving a poem to Ophelia on her voice mail at +44 (0) 2071839366 (standard land line Uk rates in the UK).
At a later stage I will edit many of your poems into the planned installation.
In, Giclée Prints 'Don't Submit To A Moments Passion With A Stranger' melting sugary shoes tell of lost love and in 'AB=BA,' Giclée Print I use the ironic simplicity of creating new life as subject matter.
Recent Activity:-
2009- Opheia Project work in progres shown, National Poetry Day celebration in Camden Town Hall, also 'Fresh Abstractions Film Festival'at SF World, Bangkok and 'Ghosts' curated by Sarah Sparks, London.
2009- Performance using projected animation and prints invited on the theme of Hansel and Gretal Deconstructed by prominent writer Marina Warner at a fairytale ball, Chiswell street, EC1Y
2009-Group Show 'Square Up The Decade, Noid Gallery
http://www.noidgallery.net/index.html
2008 - Don’t Submit To A Moments Passion With A Stranger
A stop frame animated video installation shown as a part of “T1+2 Gallery Annex Projects”, exhibited in Rupert Sanderson’s exclusive shoe store in Mayfair, London, June 2008,
http://www.kunstaspekte.de/index.php?tid=46786&action=termin
2008-Art Bid 4 Ken
http://www.artbid4ken.org.uk/artists/jowonder/index.html
2007 - Flatlanders
A High Definition animated video installation made as a tribute to the monumental experiment at CERN. Shown in Guildford Cathedral 2007 as contribution to a debate attended by 200 people web cast on The British Council Web site and also shown /seconds 7; online and Teedale Street, London, and Washington DC Arts Centre USA, with three other artists on the theme of "The New Future"
Below an online version of 16mm animated film; '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 . Stop frame animation puppets and magic...
