jOY Gerrard makes drawings and paintings that investigates different systems of relations between crowds, architecture and the built environment.
ARTIST BIO
Joy Gerrard was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1971. She graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, and an MA and MPhil from the Royal College of Art, London. cent solo and group exhibitions include Royal Academy of Arts, London (2022); Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Norwich (2022); Ulster Museum, Belfast (2022); The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, Ireland (2022); Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, travelled to Butler Gallery, Kilkenny and Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland (2021/2022); Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast (2020); Glucksman Gallery, Cork (2020); Cristea Roberts Gallery, London (2019); Ormston House, Stockholm (2019); Wexford Arts Centre (2018); Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2017); Drawing Room, London (2017); MAC International, Belfast (2016); Hayward Gallery Touring show (2016); and Peer UK, London (2015).
She has installed numerous commissions including major works for Facebook and Tideway in London (2017/18); Chelsea and Westminster Hospital (2012); and the London School of Economics (2009). Her work is held in many private and public collections including the Arts Council of Ireland; the Crawford Gallery, Cork; the Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Cork; Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol; The Museum of Central Finland, Jyvaskyla, Finland; Il Bisonte International Centre of Graphic Art, Florence, Italy.
Gerrard was the Centre Culturel Irlandais artist in residence in Paris in 2020, and is a 2023 Golden Foundation Artist in Residence, New York.
Put it to the People, London (colour and pins), Joy Gerrard, giclee print, pins, sticker mounted on board, 2023.
Above left: Installation view of Precarious Freedom: Crowds, Flags, Barriers, Joy Gerrard, The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, 2022. (Photography: Ros Kavanagh)
Installation view of Precarious Freedom: Crowds, Flags, Barriers, Joy Gerrard, The Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, 2022. (Photography: Ros Kavanagh)
Protest and Remembrance, Joy Gerrard, Protest Crowd, London ( Brexit 2, June 2018 ) 2018. Ink on paper mounted on aluminium.
THROUGH HER PRACTICE, GERRARD investigates protest crowds and occupation of urban spaces, archiving media images from mass marches, THAT INCLUDE Trump Resistance, Occupy movement, Arab Risings, Black Lives Matter, Women’s March amongst many more.
Work in progress on drawing, Joy Gerrard, 2019.
Exploring the historical and iconographic qualities of these images, her work (re)presents them in detailed pen and ink drawings, large ink works on canvas, and more recently EXPERIMENTAL COLLAGE WORKS.
TITLE
Women’s March, Chicago (circles)
ARTIST
Joy Gerrard
ABOUT THE WORK
This work is part of a new variable edition of 12 works titled, Testing/testing. Lines, Pins, Circles, especially commissioned for UPHOLD. Gerrard selected three recent drawings; a Woman’s Day protest in Chicago, A Brexit protest in London and an Abortion Rights rally in Poland and has made prints of these. Each of the 12 works have separate elements added to it including, hand painted circles, taped lines, stationary stickers, and tiny pins. The prints are experimental, both serious and playful. The graphic additions transform the ink drawings in different ways, potentially prompting us to consider data, mapping and how we receive and consider images consumed through the media.
DATE
2023
DIMENSIONS
45cm x 30cm
MEDIUM
Giclee print, with watercolour on paper.
ORIGINAL WORK / EDITION
Original work
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Joy Gerrard lives and works in Belfast. She graduated with a BA from NCAD, Dublin and an MA and MPhil from the Royal College of Art, London. Gerrard is known for work that investigates different systems of relations between crowds, architecture and the built environment.
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