(This talk re-arranged from 15/11/2024)
Joanne Coates is a working class visual artist using the medium of photography. She lives and works across the North East of England.
Joanne's work explores rurality, hidden histories, and inequalities relating to low income through photography, installations, and audio.
Educated in working-class communities, and then at London College of Communication (where she gained her BA Hons Photography) Joanne uses photography to question stories around power, identity, wealth, and poverty.
Participation and working with communities are important aspects of her work.
Educated in working-class communities, and then at London College of Communication (where she gained her BA Hons Photography) Joanne uses photography to question stories around power, identity, wealth, and poverty.
Participation and working with communities are important aspects of her work.
Coates is a farm labourer practising active nature friendly methods, this forms an intersect with her art.
She is deeply attached to places, the memories they hold and the people who inhabit them.
She is deeply attached to places, the memories they hold and the people who inhabit them.
Joanne is the recent winner of the Vasseur Baltic Artists' Award for "Middle of Somewhere" which is on show at Baltic until 17th November 2024 (10am-6pm, Free entry. See https://baltic.art/whats-on/0P-joanne-coates-the-vasseur-baltic-artists-awardmiddle-of-somewhere/ for more detail)
In 2021 Joanne was a recipient of Shutterstock Females in Focus Award.
In 2022 she was also winner of the Jerwood / Photoworks award.
Over the past five years she has achieved worldwide recognition from Magenta Flash Forward, British Journal of Photography, The British Council, Arts Council England, Women Photograph, Firecracker and more.
In 2022 she was also winner of the Jerwood / Photoworks award.
Over the past five years she has achieved worldwide recognition from Magenta Flash Forward, British Journal of Photography, The British Council, Arts Council England, Women Photograph, Firecracker and more.
For more on Joanne Coates' work see:
https://www.instagram.com/joannecoates_
There is a BBC Radio Four Documentary Feature on her work at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09hr3bv
There is a BBC Radio Four Documentary Feature on her work at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09hr3bv
Jerwood / Photoworks winner 2021 https://jerwoodarts.org/2021/09/20/announcing-heather-agyepong-and-joanne-coates-awardees-of-the-fourth-jerwood-photoworks-awards/
Friday 16th May 2025
Meeting opens at 7.00pm for Tea, Coffee and chat.
Talk starts at 7.30pm prompt.
Meeting ends 21.00
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