Joanna Rose Tidey

Interested in the way in which we try to control the natural world around us for both work and pleasure. From Bombyx Mori silk worms to harvest silk; to domesticating wild animals for pets. Giving them "human" names such as "Lenny" causes us to empathise, forgetting that these animals still have innate wild tendencies. Questioning our actions of domestication, and their implications.

I have been looking into the way we inhabit spaces and how the environments we exist in effect that of nature. We co-exist within a space, they get accidentally contained, struggle to get free from the containers we live.

Domestications to the wild and research come from my interest in science. Both the creation and manipulation of species (Frankenstein and Victoriana cabinets of curiosities) and the makeup of the universe, creation and recreation of mini worlds/ cultures.

Inspired by science: The Earth's history, evolution, the origin of life and the solar system. One being that we are all made up of the same matter which the universe was formed.

"We are a way for the universe to know itself. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return. And we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star ...

UEL, London, BA, Fine art,
Camberwell, London College of Art, Foundation Degree

01 June-31st August- Dream Weavers-Solo Show- Whitchurch Silk Mill

2 x 1/2 day workshops at Sir Harold Hillier Gardens (dates to be confirmed)

19th April-29th June Southampton City Art Gallery, Arches Studio, group show Foyer Exhibition

May 18th- 20th October- Hillier Art in the Garden, Romsey

1st June-23rd, Rare Breeds, Residence Gallery, London

May 17th-24th- Breath, Core@Nolias Gallery, Great Suffolk Street

December 2nd- Royal Festival Hall, White room, Intrinsic Unity

September 20th-13 October- Curious Duke 1st Birthday, Curious Duke Gallery, 207 Whitecross Street, London

August- 23-26th- SAL Summer Exhibition- Brick Lane Gallery, Annexe

July 2012- Romford Arts Trail (installations in various public spaces)

June 3rd- 9th June Sense of Place, Collaboration With Kirsty Packer, Council Funded installation/ community arts programme

June 2nd-10th 2012- Stratford Upon Avon Fringe Festival, Butterfly Farm

May 10th- Future Newham- The Hub- 123 Star Lane, Canning Town, E16 4PZ

April 18th 2012- Alchemy 2- Slack space ColchesterApril 3oth 2012- Sketchbook, part of 'The Sketchbook Project' Brooklyn NYC

April 18th 2012- Pigeon Hole Project- Slack Space Colchester

April 3rd-7th 2012- 'A Drawing i...