Jo Chapman

Jo Chapman is an established artist working in the public realm on a diverse range of projects. She has worked on large scale commissions for parks, colleges, libraries, hospitals and housing developments.

Jo has been a practising artist for over twenty years during which time she has made temporary installations, wall-based artworks, sculpture, and curated. Originally trained in embroidery Jo began by selling work through galleries and private commissions. Following the completion of a Masters in 2004, she concentrated on public art projects.

Her work is site-specific and with an interest in process. She takes inspiration from the effects of time and the discovery of beauty in the unexpected, the imagery is sourced from everyday encounters and incidents, translating these experiences through a process of drawing and experimentation into completed works.

The challenge of defining a new context for each project provides the opportunity to explore new directions and materials while at the same time building on already gained knowledge and experience.

Alongside her public projects, she works as an arts educator facilitating workshops in galleries and community art projects. Jo has also lectured on foundation and degree level courses.

www.jochapmanart.co.uk

Examples of previous commissions:

Waide, Out of the Blue: A cross-border INTERREG joint project by Brighton & Hove and Amiens Métropole

Festival of visual art and landscape intervention in the unique environment of the Hortillonnages floating gardens in the river Somme. A meeting between the two cultures and geographical areas of Amiens and France, and the towns of King’s Lynn and Brighton & Hove, UK. Concept - woad - green plant, yellow flower, blue dye. To reflect the process of making woad as a journey through the landscape, reaching a destination marked by a large sculpture. The sculpture is a reference to Amiens market gardening heritage derived from drawings of wooden crates that are used to store plants, vegetables and flowers. The sculpture uses a ‘wonky’ geometry referencing minimalist sculptures.

Waide, Out of the Blue: A cross-border INTERREG joint project by Brighton & Hove and Amiens Métropole

Infectious Agents 2014
UTC College, Cambridge Hawkins Brown Architects London

The UTC building is a new centre of excellence for Biomedical and Environmental Science and Technology and has the purpose of training young scientists. The artwork aims to reflect this function and the way that images are used in visual communication for scientific study. Following meetings with scientists working at the MRC (Medical Research Council) two viruses were selected because of their connections with Cambridge; the Influenza Virus which was discovered in 1933 by Sir John Skehel at the MRC and the Human Papilloma Virus, Professor Margaret Stanley, Professor of Epithelial Biology, Department of Pathology University of Cambridge, won the OBE in 2004 for services to Virology.