Jo Neil is an artist and educator whose work includes drawing, painting, textile-based sculpture, creative and academic writing. An experienced educator her work thrives on the interconnected relationships between teaching, making and research, but also a desire to play with and challenge conventional and institutionalised hierarchies within academia and arts practice.
Her artistic research and practice are aligned to an autoethnographic framework where places lived alone, and with others are re-examined to expand and re-contextualise thinking around practice. Through varied approaches to making, ‘making to reflect with’, the wider contexts, phenomena, and global contexts relating to the imagery and objects that are responded to, are interrogated deeply. The possessions and objects worked with are physical artefacts and from memory: objects, photographs, and autoethnographic writing.
Working class experiences and moments of potential cataclysmic disaster, experienced, anticipated and imagined, are themes that reoccur through entanglements of performed materials, making and thought.