BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting, Loughborough College of Art and Design
MA (distinction) Design and Manufacture, De Montfort University, Leicester
PGCE Secondary Art and Design, De Montfort University, Leicester
Selected Exhibitions
‘Turbulence’, Staithes Studio Galleries, Yorkshire, 2018
‘Togetherness’, (mixed exhibition including works created in collaboration with Debbie Locke RWA), Royal West of England Academy, Bristol 2018
‘Perfectly Small’, an exhibition by Joanna Bryant Projects @ The Foundry Gallery, London 2018
‘Northern Territories’, Inspired By Gallery, North York Moors, 2018
‘Coastal Rhythms’, Porthminster Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall 2018
RWA Open, Bristol 2011, 1013, 2014, 2016, 2017
‘The Observatory: Perspectives on Landscape, Society and Spirit’, The University of Exeter, 2017
Unfamiliar Territories, Contains Art, Somerset, 2017
Drawn 2013, 2015 + 2017, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Affordable Art Fair Battersea + Hampstead Heath 2015, 2016, 2017 + 2018, represented by One Church Street
‘A Fragile Beauty: Art on the Blackdown Hills’, The Museum of Somerset, 2017
’10 Years On: Showing Off’, Porthminster Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall, 2017
ARTROOMS 2017, represented by National Open Art Competition, London
‘The Natural Eye’ Society of Wildlife Artists Exhibition 2016’, Mall Gallery, London
‘New Territories’, The Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, Taunton 2016
‘Momentum and Walking’, Stroud Museum in the Park, Gloucestershire 2016
‘RWA@The Atkinson’, The Atkinson Gallery, Millfield 2016
Thelma Hulbert Open 2016, Honiton
Bath Society of Artists 111th Open Exhibition, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath 2016
Black Swan Open 2014 + 2015, Frome
Contemporary Watercolour Competition 2015 + 2016, RWS, Bankside Gallery, London
H.I.V.E. 2015, Harrogate, represented by National Open Art Exhibition
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2015
Mostyn Open 19, 2015 Llandudno, Wales
Mixed Exhibitions, Gallery@500feet, 2011-2015, Lynton, N. Devon
Painting Now 2014, One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden
National Open Art Exhibition 2014, Somerset House, London + Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2014, London, National Tour until June 2015
Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2013 + 2014, London, Guildford
The Evolver Prize 2014 + 2015, Atkinson Gallery and Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Somerset
ArtWorks Open 2014, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
A2 Gallery 2014 + 2015, Wells
The Open West 2013, Newark Park and Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
Artwave West Summer Exhibition 2012 + 2013, Dorset
Fringe Arts Bath Open 2013, Bath
resOlutions 2013, The Musgrove Gallery, Taunton
Reigning Cats and Dogs 2013, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
Drawing Breath 2012, Langport,
Skills Unearthed 2012, Blackdown Hills, Devon
Lutyens Gallery 2012, Hestercombe, Somerset
South West Academy Open 2011, Exeter Castle
Awards / Residencies
Farindola International Art Festival Selected Artist Residency Programme July / August 2017
Shifting Somerset Bursary + Residency, Contains Art, Somerset 2017
Staithes, North York Moors National Park, 2016, self-directed residency
Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland 2015 self-directed residency
‘Flock Together’ Arts Council-funded research and development project 2014-15 (in collaboration with Debbie Locke RWA)
Drawn Collaborative artists’ residency (with Debbie Locke RWA) 2013 + 2015, RWA, Bristol
Black Swan Open 2014, Frome (solo show 2016 prize-winner in collaboration with Debbie Locke RWA)
REAL SOMERSET, A2 Gallery 2014, Wells (First Prize-winner in collaboration with Debbie Locke RWA)
Thelma Hulbert Open 2014, Honiton (First Prize-Winner in collaboration with Debbie Locke RWA )
Millfield Summer Show 2013, The Atkinson Gallery (prize-winner in collaboration with Debbie Locke RWA)
Brisons Veor artist Residency 2014, Cape Cornwall
Broadway Open 2014, Broadway Arts Festival (John Singer Sargent Prize-winner in collaboration with Debbie Locke RWA)
‘The Open West 2013 Workshops’, Newark Park, August 2013 (in collaboration with Debbie Locke RWA)
Inna Sight, commissioned artist, The Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, Taunton 2012
‘Welcome Sight’, Solo exhibition, Regal Theatre, Minehead, Somerset 2012
‘Walking Meditation’, The Bomb Shelter, Beer, Devon, 2010
Invitations
Selector for The Ilminster Open 2015, Somerset
Judge for The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition 2015 + 2016
Judge for RWA 165th Open 2017
Gallery Representation
Joanna Bryant Projects
One Church Street Gallery, Great Missenden, Oxfordshire
Porthminster Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall
Memberships
Royal West of England Academy Academician (elected January 2016)
National Society for Education in Art and Design
Education and curatorial practice
2015 – present Associate Advisor and CPD trainer for S.P.A.E.D.A. arts education, Somerset
2013 – present Associate Lecturer in Art and Design Education, Creative Education
2013 – present Access Art 40 Artist Educators (selected artist educator)
2011 – 2013 visiting lecturer, Exeter University and UWE, Bristol (secondary art and design PGCE)
2012 – present Curator, Art for Life, Musgrove Park Hospital, and Quartz Arts Festival, Taunton
2011 – present Arts Award advisor for Gold, Silver and Bronze
2010 – present exhibitions interpretation and education specialist, including:
- ‘Faces of Conflict, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter 2015
- ‘Detached and Timeless’, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter 2014
- ‘Gillian Ayres ‘Paintings and Prints’, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter 2013
- Anthony Gormley’s ‘Field for the British Isles’ at Barrington Court, Somerset 2012
- ‘Into the Light’, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter 2012
- ‘The Road to Rome’, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter 2011
2009 – present artist-in-residence working with schools and teachers across the South West of England.
2000 – 2009 Full time Head of Art at secondary schools in the South West of England
1997 – 2000 Subject leader, PGCE Art and Design (secondary), UWE, Bristol
1990 – 1996 Full time art teacher / Head of Art at secondary schools in Leicestershire
1987 – 1989 Community artist and associated freelance socially engaged arts practice, Leicestershire
Publications:
‘Making Art 16+’ (author) 2012, Falmouth University in collaboration with Devon and Cornwall County Councils