Jo Hummel 7 - 28 SEPTEMBER 2019
TRANSFORMER I
Cover: Sanctuary Acrylic and emulsion on watercolour paper and ply, 90x90cm Inside cover: Neverland Acrylic and emulsion on watercolour paper and ply, 60x60cm Additional works will be available during the exhibition. Further information on the artist, artworks and prices can be found on our website and via our Artsy profile.
Jo Hummel TRANSFORMER I 7 - 28 SEPTEMBER 2019 Join us for the opening reception on Saturday 7th September from 2-4pm.
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JO HUMMEL TRANSFORMER I 7 - 28 September 2019, &Gallery, Edinburgh, UK TRANSFORMER II 18 October - 23 November 2019, Nordic Art Agency, Malmo, Sweden Foreward Jo Hummel’s decision to split a single body of work into two for her split solo exhibition Transformer I & II, is borne most pointedly from deep rooted, formative experiences of divisive acts and actions, but given that one of the hosting galleries is located in a British capital and the other in a major European city, the associated political analogy is also clear and present. The references are not as singular as the casual viewer may assume, however. In all cases Hummel is responding to a forced passivity in the face of fundamental upheaval. Throughout life we are faced with situations in which we feel powerless, be it in childhood innocence or as the furious adult who shouts themselves hoarse for their cause, but to no apparent effect. Our understanding of situations such as these changes and matures over decades, sometimes quite dramatically, but the impotent fear of one’s physical, psychological, personal or political geographies being fundamentally, even dangerously destabilised by forces far beyond our control, is never outgrown. In Transformer I & II, Hummel has taken a risk. It would have been practically and conceptually easier, and perfectly reasonable, to have presented separate shows in Scotland and Sweden; but taking the path of least resistance is not always right. Instead she has embarked upon a more treacherous route. In acknowledging and addressing the acts of separation she been subjected to, she forces herself to consider difficult, personal issues. Her response is to perform a divisive act herself - one that cannot have been easy - but perhaps the only one that has truly been in her own hands. It is perhaps a moment of self-awareness for her - a decision made to help redress an internal imbalance. A move to take the power back. Far from being entirely self motivated, however, she simultaneously seeks to broadcast more widely, of political and international issues such as isolation, uncertainty and coerced societal breakdown, and perhaps suggest that we are not quite as powerless as we may feel. Her profound personal decision to split up the cohesive body of work that is the result of many months of intense studio practice was superficially unnecessary and quite avoidable, but it speaks firmly, decisively and delivers an important message: It may be easier to ignore problems than to address them, to do nothing rather than to do something or to make smalltalk instead of instigating a serious conversation, but such a mindset, such a pattern of behaviour, is worthless. Hummel has made and carried out a very difficult personal decision. Her actions, Universally, and quite unambiguously, speak louder than words. She sets an example to be followed. Tom Wilmott Artist, Curator and Writer Living, working in London Searcher Acrylic and emulsion on watercolour paper and ply, 90x90cm
Landslide Acrylic and emulsion on watercolour paper and ply 70x50cm
Track and Field Acrylic and emulsion on watercolour paper and ply, 150x110cm
Glow, Sunday, Toy, Tennis, Night Owl & Bathing Sleep Acrylic and emulsion on watercolour paper andLost ply, 38x28cm Oil on Board, 72x160cm
Savage Acrylic and emulsion on watercolour paper and ply, 70x70cm
Flood Acrylic and emulsion on watercolour paper and ply, 70x70cm
Transformer Acrylic and emulsion on watercolour paper and ply, 150x110cm
Drone Pop Acrylic and emulsion on watercolour paper and ply, 150x110cm
JO HUMMEL Born 1982 Hampshire, England STUDIED 2000 – 2001 Falmouth University 2001 – 2004 Kingston University 2004 – 2006 Royal College of Art 2018 – 2019 Turps Painting School Correspondence Course
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 2018
CURRENT & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS 2019
Transformer I, &Gallery, Edinburgh Transformer II, Nordic Art Agency, Malmo Sweden Object Meditation, Curated by Tom Wilmott, After Nyne Gallery, London
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 2018 2017 2016
2015
2014 2013 2012 2011 2009
Safety at Sea, After Nyne Gallery, London Deep End Echo, Joint Solo Exhibition with Stephen Smith, Sid Motion Gallery, London Integration II, Resident Artist Saatchi Art Lounge, Old Truman Brewery, Frieze Week London Disorder, Joint Solo Exhibition with Laura Hathaway, K6 Gallery, Southampton Porcelain & Paper, CAA Gallery, Joint solo exhibition with Sue Paraskeva during London Crafts Week 2017 Cardboard Castle on site installation, Bestival, funded by Arts Council England The Farmer’s Clock, Hop Kilns Gallery, Isle of Wight, funded by Arts Council England Joint Solo Exhibition with Amanda Toms, Yarmouth Gallery, Isle of Wight Panic of the Human Fancy, Aspex Guildhall Gallery, Portsmouth Artist in Focus, Newashgate Gallery, Farnham Works on Paper, Back Street Arts, Sheffield Pocket Museum, The Lightbox, Woking Works on Paper, Arc Space, Aspex gallery, Portsmouth 2016 Ephemera Narrate, Portsmouth Cathedral, Portsmouth Collecting Lines, Eldon Gallery, Portsmouth University
Girl Boss Rally, Curated by The Other Art Fair, LA Drawing Room, Sid Motion Gallery, London Affordable Art Fair Milano, Liberty Gallery, Milan, Italy London Art Fair, After Nyne Gallery, London Curated, Amar Gallery, London The Other Art Fair, Brooklyn Expo Centre New York The Drawing Room, Sid Motion Gallery, London Unrestricted, &Gallery, Edinburgh Manchester Contemporary, Amar Gallery The Abstract Show, Well Hung Gallery, London Affordable Art Fair Stockholm Liberty Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden Affordable Art Fair Battersea, Liberty Gallery, Battersea, London Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Curated by Sarah Dare, UNIT 3 Projects, London Initial Sighting, &Gallery, Edinburgh After Nyne Presents, After Nyne Gallery, London Eight from Nyne, 45 Park Lane, London Curated by Lily Ackerman and After Nyne Gallery Art Republic Launch and Art Yard, Art Republic Gallery, Brighton Women’s March, Unlimited Gallery, Brighton Affordable Art fair Brussels, with Folly & Muse Gallery The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London A Few of our Favourite Things, Lotte Inch Gallery, York Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, with Folly and Muse Gallery Accessible Art Fair BOZAR Brussels Turns on the Tarmac, Sid Motion Gallery, Nick Jensen, Adam Hedley & Joanne Hummel-Newell London The Other Art Fair Arnolfini Bristol Supported by Arts Council England Grants for the Arts The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, I’m in the Garden,
Joanne Hummel-Newell, Adam Gillam, Hermione Allsopp and Laura Hathaway, Foal Arts ArtMUC, Munich, Germany, Folly and Muse Gallery The Other Art Fair, The Old Truman Brewery, London The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, 37 Southampton Row, London
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Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Prize Bankside Gallery, London MK Arts Shoosmiths Art Prize shortlist exhibition, MK Hospital, Milton Keynes Out of the box, No Format Gallery, London Bryant and Keeling painting Prize, One Church Street Gallery, Buckinghamshire Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Burlington Gardens, London Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary works competition, Bankside Gallery, London Xmas Bogof, WW Gallery, Hatton Gardens, London Spare Parts, The Rag Factory, London Visual Diaries, Newashgate Gallery, Farnham Cave, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth Jerwood Drawing Prize Shortlist Exhibition, Jerwood Space, London and touring Say What You See, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth Afternoon Tea, WW Gallery, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Text and Textiles, 4 Person Show, The Point, Eastleigh Anonymous Drawings, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany Drawing the Line, Aspace Bargate Gallery, Southampton Fukt Magazine Presents, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy No Man is an Island, Curated by Rose Lejune, The Empire, London Drawing works, Coningsby Gallery, London Generation, Royal College of Art, London Pull, Terrestrial Television screening of ‘Pull’ BBC2 London
AWARDS & COMMISSIONS 2018 2017
2015 2010
Permanent wall installation ‘Away’ Earlham Street London Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Arts Council England Grants for the Arts, Ryde Arts Festival Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Royal Watercolour Society Contemporary Prize Quay Arts Gallery Purchase Prize, Isle of Wight
P U B L I C AT I O N S A N D P R E S S 2019
2018 2017 2016 2015 2013 2012 2011
Interview with DATEAGLE ART Interview with Nick Maroussas, Assemblage Magazine, Between the Lines, Interview with After Nyne Magazine Mailonline, Femail, by Andrew Bullock 29 December Front Cover page feature, Saatchi Art Spring Catalogue Interview with Katie Tomazi Edwards, Stuff, July 15 After Nyne Magazine November Issue, Women in Art Fresh Paint Magazine The Farmer’s Clock catalogue of works, Text by Letty Clarke Times Newspaper ‘Picking up a Picasso is one click away’ Article by Mark Bridge Jerwood Drawing Prize catalogue, Introduction by Prof Anita Taylor Observer Newspaper ‘Next Generation turns its back on Emin and Hirst’s conceptual artworks’ May, by Vanessa Thorpe Afternoon Tea printed catalogue, WW Gallery at the 54th Venice Biennale, texts by Cheryl Smyth, Helen Sumpter, Chiara Williams and Debra Wilson
RESIDENCIES 2017 2015 2011
Saatchi Art Lounge, Old Truman Brewery, Frieze Week London Social Sculpture, by Kieron Reed, Artsway, Sway Portsmouth Grammar School, Portsmouth
Photo credit: Julian Winslow
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