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Jo Blogg

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Jo Blogg BA Hons (London Guild Hall University) is a practising Hawkes Bay artist. Jo’s body of work exemplifies her self confessed compulsive and obsessive character. She is a colourist and a master of painstaking repetitive patterns which can be composed on anything from a canvas to an unlikely found object. She often works in multiples and the number one hundred appears time and again in her catalogue raisonné.

Mandalas are the perfect vehicle for her repetitive patterns evoking a zen-like experience for the viewer. However, look a little deeper and behind many of Jo's works are clever, often tongue in cheek commentaries on important issues such as feminism, consumerism, and environmental degradation.

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EDUCATION

  1. BAHons (London Guild Hall University)

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION

2020
  1. Not Everything is Black and White, Boyd-Dunlop Gallery Napier
2018
  1. The Cookbook, The Rabbit Room Gallery Napier
2014
  1. I AM FIFTY, One Night Solo Show Fane Flaws Studio
2013
  • PINS & NEEDLES, Solo Show Hastings City Art Gallery
    • 2010
    1. STUFF, Clearview Estate Winery
    2008
    1. Hawkes Bay Invitational, Hastings Art Gallery
    2007
    1. Over & Over Again, Black Barn Gallery, Havelock North

    SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION

    2017
    1. Buggar, with Bernard Winkles, Tennyson Gallery Napier
    2015
    1. Tweet, with Fane Flaws & Perry Bradley, A+E Gallery
    2012
    1. IDs & Animals, Statements Gallery Napier
    2010
    1. SOURCE 'A Contemporary Female Aesthetic', Hastings City Art Gallery
    2008
    1. Faking It (a revisitation of postmodernism) EIT Tutors Show, Hastings Art Gallery
    2. Don't Tell Me What To Do (with Fane Flaws), COCA Gallery, Christchurch