Joanne Ruth Clark - Artist
Joanne Ruth Clark is an 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.
Using resin, concrete, cnc technology and oil painting, Joanne attempts to create artwork for the public. Joanne Clark has a background in architecture and her work address’s identity between cultures.
She earned a Bachelor of 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.
Her artwork has been featured in The Local Project and Grand Designs Magazine and her product design has been featured in GQ magazine UK and The Square Mile magazine.
Joanne has worked as an artist and exhibited her artwork in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Port Hedland, and Perth. Joanne Clark's work investigates the poetics, of capturing 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
2017
Form Art Gallery presents The Courthouse Gallery, Group Exhibition, A Dot on the Run
January, Port Hedland, Australia
2016
Blank Canvas Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Ellington
July, Perth, Australia
2016
The Courthouse Gallery, Group Exhibition, A Dot on the Run
March, Port Hedland, Australia
2015
Stairwell Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Ipseity
January, Perth, Australia
2015
Windows of the city, Collective Exhibition, City of Perth
September, Perth, Australia
2014
Bund 22, Architecture collective exhibition,
October, Shanghai, China
2014
D and S Gallery, Group Exhibition,
May, Shanghai, China
2014
The Bird, Youthless Exhibition, Group exhibition,
March, Perth, Australia