Joe Richardson
PGCert Academic Practice - Central Saint Martins, 2023
Joe Richardson’s paintings strive to capture stills of the daily fluctuations and interactions of nature and construction in acrylics, oil and dynamic collage to freeze the frenetic activity on the streets and canals that surround his studio. Richardson works with colour inspired by architecture in the south of France and Italian Renaissance painters, such as Titian, to illuminate the greyed-out quotidian scenes he draws upon in his immediate environment. Richardson’s observations operate in the space between the performance of an action and its anticipated outcome, for example, smashing glass, a character falling in a canal or a breakthrough in communication. His works perform as double acts, facades and stages that deconstruct everyday scenarios through repetition to the point of absurdity, to produce purgatorial experiences of waiting, spaces of absurd nothingness and the opportunity to navigate uncertainty.
Awards and residencies:
Awards
Shortlisted - Collyer Bristow Graduate Art Award, 2019
Winner - Red Mansion Art Prize, 2018
Winner - The Cass Art Prize, 2016
Shortlisted - Graduate Art Prize, 2016
Shortlisted - Hollyport Commission Prize, 2015
Residencies
2020 Wilson Gallery, Cheltenham (virtual due to Covid-19)
2020 Gloucester Guildhall, Gloucester (virtual due to Covid-19)
2019 Red Gate Gallery, Beijing, China
2018 Stokkoyart, Stokkoya, Norway
2018 Arebyte Gallery, London
2015 Pratt Institute, New York
Instagram: @joepdrichardson
“Richardson's observations operate in the space between the performance of an action and its anticipated outcome, for example, smashing glass, a character falling in a canal or a breakthrough in communication”
