Joanna Kidney’s studio and facilitation practice explores what it means to belong to the web of life in these times. Emerging from an animist worldview, it explores deep ecology, indigenous knowledge, wonder and care. Throughout an expansion of drawing into paint, space and moving image, the act of making and process are central.
In addition to exhibitions in the USA, UK, France and Germany, Joanna has had solo exhibitions in the RHA, Dublin; The LAB, Dublin; Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast; Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre and Galway Arts Centre. She has been awarded a Cooper Foundation Grant (USA); Arts Council of Ireland and Wicklow County Council funding; a RHA Studio Award and a Dublin Institute of Technology Award of Excellence.
Her practice includes collaborations with visual artists, dance artists and artists collectives. She facilitates drawing and encaustic painting courses in Ireland and Internationally. She is co-curator of the Wicklow Artists Salon with writer Philip St John and a co- founder of Outpost Studios, Co. Wicklow. Her work is held in the collections of Allied Irish Banks; The Ballinglen Museum of Art; The Central Bank of Ireland; Department of the Environment, Northern Ireland; Office of Public Works; University College Dublin and Wicklow County Council.