Silent Notes for Japan Sculpture

JOANNA MOWBRAY January 2021 Short Biography and Practice B.A. hons Fine Art / Sculpture, Exeter Art College 1973/76 M.A. Sculpture / Fine Art Reading University 1976/78 Fellowship in Sculpture at Cheltenham Art College 1978/79. Since 1979 she has lived and worked in West Yorkshire establishing her current studio/home in a former chapel in Huddersfield 1993. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally in one person and group exhibitions including various regions in the UK, London, Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Australia, New York , Japan, Hong Kong, Israel and Palestine. Mowbray has also lectured in Sculpture at numerous Art College / University Fine Art departments in the UK. In 1998 she was appointed Reader-Professor of Sculpture Fine Art at the University of Lincoln 1997-2001 External Examiner / Fine Art Sculpture, University of Wolverhampton 2002-2007 External Examiner / Fine Art Sculpture, John Moores University, Liverpool Sculpture has been commissioned for outdoor public & private sites and her drawings and sculptures are held within various private & public collections. The first sculpture made post Artist in Industry was ‘Movements’ no. 1,2 and 3. (aluminium & expanded steel) for a YSP residency / solo installation 1985/6 As my career developed it was necessary to make more resilient durable constructions for other outside environments, examples of these are: ‘Side by Side’ 1989 (stainless steel) commission, Halifax Building Society. ‘Beyond and Within’ and ‘Inside Out’ 1995 (hot rolled steel) solo exhibition at the YSP both are now permanently sited outside in York & Belgium. ‘Blades’ 2000 (hot rolled steel) Luxembourg ‘Drawing in Space no.2’ 2003 (RHS steel tube) Tweede Natuur,Halle,Belgium ‘Far and Beyond’ 2006 (Cor-ten steel) commission for Ashwood Business Park, Northumberland ‘View from Within’ 2008 (Cor-ten steel) private gardens Suffolk. ‘Surface Tension‘ 2012 (hot rolled steel) Schilde, Belgium Other commissions have included contemporary dance, sculpture and sound/music collaborations ; ‘Some Consolation’ 1988, Mappin Art Gallery,Sheffield. ‘Surface Tension’ 1990, Leeds City Art Gallery & Henry Moore Institute , Leeds. ‘5 x 2‘ New Collaborations 1990, Purcell Rooms,South Bank Centre, London. ‘Vertigo’ 1991, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull.