Joanna Mowbray

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 ...

BA hons Fine Art Sculpture,Exeter Art College. 1973-76

MA Fine Art Sculpture, Reading University. 1976-78

Fellowship in Sculpture, Fine Art, Cheltenham and Gloucestershire College of Higher Education. 1978-79

35 Years of WYPW, West Yorkshire Print Workshop, Mirfield. 2019

'From the Kitchen Table'/ Drew Gallery Projects' Southwark Park galleries, London. 2019

ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, The Mall, London. 2018

'From the kitchen Garden' / Drew Gallery Projects. Herbert Read Gallery, UCA Canterbury. (Retrospective project related to '3rd Generation Women Sculptors' ) 2018

'Recent sculpture of Joanna Mowbray' , Solo exhibition, Lia Schelkens Gallery, Tweede Natuur, Antwerp, Belgium. September 2015

'North Base' 108 Fine Art, Harrogate. Exhibition of 12 artists working in the north. Oct-Nov. 2015

'Lentetentoonstelling' Joint exhibition at the Lia Schelkens Gallery, Tweede Natuur, Antwerp, Belgium. 2012

‘Drawn To Sculpture’ Fermynwoods Contemporary Art Ltd. The Water Tower, Brigstock, Northamptonshire. 2008.

'Encompass' sculpture installation,Clifford Chance Ltd,Canary Wharf, London. 2007

'Sculpture in Schildehof' International exhibition of outdoor sculpture. Antwerp,Belgium.2003

'A Shriek from the Invisible Box' The Meguro Museum,Tokyo, Japan. group exhibition.2001

'Incisions Recesses' Exhibition of drawings and 'To receive' small sculpture. European Art Gallery, Hull, UK, toured to...