SCAPA JOE

Scapa Joe is a collaboration between artist Caroline Appleyard (Scapa) and photographer / 3D designer Dean Hodson (Joe). We aim to raise awareness of the desecration of ocean species, climate change, extinction, pollution, and other global issues. I (Caroline) paint, and we make sculptures together. We show the possible future if human pollution and apathy continue. We describe our work as utopian dystopia.

I have dived for over 25 years and have had some incredible encounters with wildlife, including various wonderful sharks. I had a successful art career, yet wanted to make a difference using art, so in 2018 I teamed up with my friend Dean, and we began working together under the name Scapa Joe. Scapa was my cat, and Joe was Dean’s dad. We exhibit all over the UK. And recently had 4 paintings accepted for the prestigious Discerning Eye Exhibition, at the Mall Galleries,