Clark
Joanne Ruth Clark - Artist
Joanne Ruth Clark is a Melbourne born artist who resides and grew up in Perth, Western Australia. Through her art practice Joanne is interested in how our environment prescribes identities to both individuals, and the collective. She experiments with concrete, resin and oil painting.
The psychological underpinnings of Joanne’s work are based upon the artist’s personal history of being half Malaysian Chinese and half Australian. Looking through the lens of her mixed cultural upbringing, Joanne examines significant moments which created a sense of the variability and confusion of her social distinctiveness. Using resin, concrete, cnc technology and oil painting, Joanne attempts to create portraits of individuals as they re-enacted the supposed choreography of self. These works suggest an unstable, monumental, body-as-architecture, under continuous construction -- or perhaps demolition.
Joanne Clark has a background in architecture and her work address’s identity between cultures.
She earned a BA in Environmental Design at UWA, a Masters Degree in Architecture from UWA, and completed a year of intensive study at the Florence Classical Art Academy in Italy. She has also studied on exchange programs at the Politechnico di Milano in Italy, UNSW in Sydney and the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Joanne has worked as an artist and exhibited her artwork in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Port Hedland, and Perth.
Joanne Clark's work investigates the complexity, and the poetics, of capturing the female-identity in a culturally complex age.
Education
2018-2019
Florence Classical Art Academy, Florence, IT
2012
University of Waterloo, Cambridge, ON, CA, MArch, Masters
2010 - 2012
University of Western Australia, Perth, AU, MArch, Masters of Architecture
2010
University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, AU, BArch, Exchange Semester
2010
2007-2009
Politecnico di Milano, Milan, IT, BArch, Design Studio
University of Western Australia, Perth, AU, B Arch, Bachelor of Environmental Design.
Awards
2017
Best 100 of Good Design Award, Japan
2012
Thesis Dissertation, University of Waterloo (High Dist), Canada
2012
Masters of Architecture, University of Western Australia (Dist), Australia
Exhibitions
2021
Society for the Promotion of Classical Art Inaugural exhibition, Group Exhibition, October, Perth, Australia
2019
The Florence Art Academy Gallery, Group Exhibition,
December, Florence, Italy
2018
Locus, Group Exhibition, 38 Art Terrace,
October, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2016
Form Art Gallery presents The Courthouse Gallery, Group Exhibition, A Dot on the Run
January, Port Hedland, Australia
2015
Blank Canvas Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Ellington
July, Perth, Australia
2015
The Courthouse Gallery, Group Exhibition, A Dot on the Run
March, Port Hedland, Australia
2014
Stairwell Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Ipseity
January, Perth, Australia
2014
Windows of the city, Collective Exhibition, City of Perth
September, Perth, Australia
2013
Bund 22, Architecture collective exhibition,
October, Shanghai, China
2013
D and S Gallery, Group Exhibition,
May, Shanghai, China
2012
The Bird, Youthless Exhibition, Group exhibition,
March, Perth, Australia
2011
UWA, Group exhibition,
September, Perth, Australia
2010
Architecture and Fine Arts Gallery, Group exhibition,
October, Perth, Australia