Hello everyone!

I am very pleased to have been awarded one of twenty commissions to celebrate Camberwell Art Festival's twentieth birthday!

http://www.camberwellarts.org.uk/camberwell-arts-commissions

I will be performing 20/20 in and around Camberwell this Sunday June 15th. Come and find me between the hours of 11.30am and 5.30pm, where as journalist TwentyTwenty I will be on the hunt for stories to capture and illustrate, leaving the resulting little pictures on display on clip boards throughout Camberwell, for the duration of the festival, until June 22nd. Locations to include The Tiger Pub, Camberwell Green and Butterfly Walk.

More info. on C.A.F. here:

http://www.camberwellarts.org.uk/

HOORAY for Chutney! 

image by Sarah Sparkes

For the closing celebrations of Camberwell Arts Festival I will be taking part in the fabulous Chutney Preserves 8, on Sunday June 22nd, at Camberwell Green from 1-6pm.

I'll be celebrating Camberwell's forgotten Fun Factory with a neon cake sculpture, cup cake target practice and a custard pie fight!

Curated by artist Sarah Sparkes, more info. here:

http://chutneypreserves.blogspot.co.uk/

And on Saturday June 21st I am very pleased and delighted to have been invited to present a new live art piece called "Love/Hate" - RAte, at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition's Midsummer Fete. Curated by artist Frog Morris, with Daniel Lehan and Calum F Kerr. The fun starts at 6pm and goes on until midnight. This event is ticketed, for more info and to book tickets go here:

http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/152  

And last month I had the excitement of being asked to perform Sweetalking at The Camberwell Society's AGM.

Here are some photos and a link to a little video taken by Sarah Sparkes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYnicPnqMuc&feature=em-upload_owner

Enjoy! With love and best wishes - Joanna

                    TONIGHT!

I will be performing as The Grim Rapper at Frog Morris's Return to The Montague Arms, at The Montague Arms Pub, Queen's Rd, SE15 2PA. More information here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1415694355371897/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming

I hope to see you there. - toodlepip!

HELLO!

Last night at Dulwich Festival's Launch Party as Sweetalking I collected 57 secrets. Here are a few:

The fun continues in Dulwich until 18th of May, for more information follow this link:

http://www.dulwichfestival.co.uk/

And tomorrow, Sunday May 11th, Vox Wonder will be manifesting somewhere around the South Bank, sometime about 2pm. Come and request a drawing! See it appear before your very eyes as if by magic! For more info. on Vox Wonder go here: 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vox-Wonder-Voice-Activated-Drawing-Machine/144052712310033

Happy weekend!

​Hello everyone!

This Friday, May 9th, I will be performing Sweetalking at Neil and Steve's Dulwich Festival launch party:

DULWICH FESTIVAL LAUNCH PARTY
When? This Friday from 6pm
Where? Neil & Stevie's 125 Court Lane SE21 & Ingrid & Tom's 182 Court Lane

ALL WELCOME!!!

Come and enjoy the party!

With love and best wishes - Joanna

OPEN STUDIO AND ART SALE

SATURDAY APRIL 5th 2014 11am-6pm

GREEN SHOOTS - Besson Street Community Gardens, London SE15, just behind Kender Primary School, Kender Street, London SE14 5JA

For the past year and a half I have had my studio space at Kender Primary School. I have been working with the children on art projects, in exchange for use of a large classroom space, in which to explore my own art practice.

I am moving to a log cabin in the playground at John Donne Primary School in Peckham, but before I go I will be displaying a sample of my work and giving you a taste of my studio space by setting up a mini installation at Green Shoots, Besson Street Community Gardens, SE14 5AE.

Almost all of the art work will be for sale, so come and grab a bargain. It would be lovely to see you! 

With love and best wishes – Joanna

         “Pink Moon” Jan 2014, watercolour on board, in collaboration with artist Alice Renouf.


    This event is part of the Telegraph Hill Festival.
Follow this link for more info. number 17 on the map:
                http://www.telegraphhillfestival.org.uk/742351710796.htm

Hello everyone,

SINGING!

Next Wednesday evening March 26th, I will be singing at a Celebration of J.S. Bach with Roger B. Williams and Union Chapel Singers, at The Union Chapel in Islington. More info here:
http://store.unionchapel.org.uk/events/26-mar-14-a-celebration-of-js-bach-with-roger-b-williams-union-chapel/

Then the following evening, Thursday 27th, I am very pleased and excited to be performing my Singing Ghost live art piece at Saint Giles' Church on Camberwell Church Street, SE5 8RB, for Camberwell Free Film Festival, to accompany their screening of the Japanese horror film Kwaidan.

More info here: http://www.ghosthostings.co.uk/?p=507

and here: http://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2014/03/camberwells-free-film-festival-returns-from-20th-30th-march-2014-heres-the-full-programme-of-free-events/

The film screenings will be surrounded by art installations and performances, artists include Miyuki Kasahara, Calum F Kerr, Charlotte Squire, Anne Robinson and Sarah Doyle. This event is curated by Sarah Sparkes, as part of GHost.

The live art piece "Singing Ghost" explores the context of song lyrics. In particular how the meaning of songs shift sharply when sung by a ghost. The piece is a medley of covers, interwoven with my own 'song poems' and ghostly sounds, creating a multi layered performance examining notions of love, loss and contemporary perceptions surrounding the meaning of death. For "Kwaidan" on March 27th The Singing Ghost will have a Japanese twist. Here is Singing Ghost at Westminster Library in 2012

On Wednesday April 2nd I will be singing with Union Chapel Singers again, delivering an evening of carousing, merry making and drinking. Come and join us for a sing along in Union Chapel's gorgeous bar! Entry is free, but donations are welcome, with all profits going to the charity Wateraid.

More info and a poster that I made for the event can be found here: http://store.unionchapel.org.uk/events/2-apr-14-drinking-songs-union-chapel/

P'INGS AND THINGS!

I have a watercolour, pastel and ink piece called "Chalkhill Blue", in the Stop The War exhibition at Indra Samia Gallery, 19 Henriques Street, London E1 1NB

The opening party is on Friday March 28th from 6pm - 9pm and the exhibition continues until April 30th. More info here:

http://indraandsamia.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/stop-war-art-show-invite-and-press.html

Come and see my studio before I move! I'm opening my studio at Kender Primary School, Kender Street, SE14, as part of Telegraph Hill Festival, on Saturday April 5th, from 11am - 6pm. More info on the festival can be found here:
http://www.telegraphhillfestival.org.uk/welcome2014.htm

More info on Kender School can be found here: http://www.kender.lewisham.sch.uk/page/default.asp?title=Home&pid=1

And finally, here are some pics from The Mad March Chutney Tea Party, that took place at Hundred Years Gallery at the beginning of this month. Thank you to photographer Jemima Broadbridge for those.

It was a wonderful live art performance in celebration of March madness, with artists Sarah Sparkes, Sarah Doyle, Philip Goodman, Calum F Kerr, Frog Morris, Ben Foong, Caroline Gregory and Rebecca Feiner.

Alice Renouf and I created a mysterious singing concoction, inspired by the 1965 Joseph Beuys performance "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare", and celebrating spring. I was the female personification of Joseph Beuys, and Alice was the spirit of the hare. I made a Vox Choc cake. An inedible delicacy cast in plaster from cake, biscuit and chocolate packaging, and decorated with paint, buttons, shells, beads and gold leaf. It was cut up and distributed to members of the audience who were also invited to paint harey eggs with Sarah S., open Magpies with Sarah D., be analyzed by scientist Frog and insulted by Philip's course hare  and of course to join in the singing. It was collaborative, creative chaos, mayhem and March madness. A Chutney Preserves event, in the true spirit of Chutney, curated by Sarah Sparkes.

I hope to see you soon, with love and best wishes - Joanna

Hello everyone!

This Saturday February 15th, one of my paintings will be in Mikey Georgeson's art raffle, all proceeds will be going to the Kids co. charity.
Mikey will be playing a live set with his band The Civilised Scene. It all starts at 8pm and entry is free - at Paper Dress Vintage, 114-116 Curtain Road, London EC2A 3AH. More info here: 
http://therebelmagazine.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/mikey-georgeson-civilised-scene-live.html?spref=tw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTEf8mDwaI&feature=youtu.be&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2mTEf8mDwaI%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&app=desktop

Then on Saturday March 1st Alice Renouf and I will be taking part in Chutney Preserves' Mad March Chutney Tea Party at The Hundred Years Gallery, 13 Pearson Street, E2 8JD.
It starts at 4.30pm and ends at 6.30pm.

Come and see the giant Vox Choc cake and sample inedible morsels from it! During the madness and mayhem I will be manifesting as the female personification of Joseph Beuys during his performance "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare" and Alice will be embodying the spirit of the hare. There will be singing and dancing...

More info. here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/211847792344099/?ref_dashboard_filter=upcoming&source=1

At Chinese New Year Alice and I took part in the Chinese Open 2014 Year of the Horse Exhibition in Q Park, a car park in Soho. It was organised, curated and hosted by Vanya Balogh, Cedric Christie and Geoffrey Leong. 

Thanks for the photographs of our installation and performance taken by India Roper-Evans and Damian Cosmas, below. Here is a link to a video of our live art singing piece, thanks to Philip Raymond Goodman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mTEf8mDwaI&feature=youtu.be&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D2mTEf8mDwaI%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&app=desktop

A film of the exhibition, by Monika K, can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCYgf0uUYUc

Back in December I won second prize in the Peckham Space (now Peckham Platform) Open performance night, for my live art piece Sweetalking. A photo of Sweetalking taken by Emily Druiff is below.
I swapped sweets for secrets and read the secrets out at the end of the night. A lot of them were open secrets, such as "Peckham Space is going to be called Peckham Platform" and

"Always be courageous in order to live an authentic, meaningful life of love."

Some of my favourite secrets were "I love you", "I paint my toenails", "You are the best artist in the world", and "What is unseen is more important than what is seen".

Toodlepip and I hope to see you soon!

With love and best wishes - Joanna

 

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Joanna McCormick, artist. www.joart.info