Jo Willoughby

artistic research - community - education - interactive - collaboration - sculpture - drawing

Jo Willoughby is a visual artist and educator whose practice focuses on collaboration and cooperation. Dedicated to the service and gratitude of radical collectivity, her work emerges from group praxis, or seeks to consider how and why such forms of togetherness are not only necessary but a joyful resistance in times of neoliberal atomization. Her most recent research is based on the artist as a member of an activist group, which tools or inquiries might this practice develop alongside other members to sustain meaningful collectivity?

Jo is a member of the art collective Stair / Slide / Space based between the UK and the Netherlands. She is also a member of Future Field (a collective based in Rotterdam) and Cultural Workers Unite (A network of precarious, wageless and underpaid cultural workers).

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    • The Soil From My Mother's Garden

    Exhibition / presentation

    • 17-11-2020 t/m 14-12-2020
    • In collaboration with: The Growing Space
    • Location: The Growing Space, Wielewaal, Rotterdam
    • The site of the growing space was painted with a poem in English in Dutch written by the artist called 'The soil from my mothers garden'. The work was painted onto the glass of the growing space in mud collected from the Weilewaal and sites of former gardens.
    • https://growingspacewielewaal.hotglue.me/

    The Museum of

    Project

    • 01-04-2019
    • Location: Mathenesserdijk 430, Rotterdam
    • The Museum Van is a small museum experiment and changing display of artworks, collections and ideas questioning: how, what and who is a museum? Situated in the front window of the artist's house which is located near old Delfshaven, the space takes this geography as a starting point to tell stories, follow tangents and unfold history, inviting neighbors, visitors and friends to contribute.

    Love Kept Us Warm

    Project

    • 31-08-2019 t/m 30-09-2019
    • In collaboration with: Northam Community Centre
    • Location: John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
    • Love Kept Us Warm (2019) was a constellation of exchanges with an expanded community to consider shifting ideas of boundaries and belonging. In collaboration with Northam Community Center in Southampton, the project initiated a series of social gatherings and meals within John Hansard Gallery, whilst asking the question: can conversations about the home help us to reimagine the institutional, social and political?
    • https://jhg.art/events/stair-slide-space-love-kept-us-warm/