Jo Chapman CV
Born 1965, London, UK
Education and Training
PGCE education, Anglia Ruskin University, Suffolk, 2008
Artist Training in working with adults with learning difficulties, Project Artworks, Hastings, 2006
Mentee on the Commissions East Mentoring program, 2004 - 2006
MA Fine Art, Norwich School of Art & Design, 2002 – 2004
BA Hons Embroidery, UCE Birmingham School of Art, 1983 – 1986
DATEC Diploma in Art/Design, Hounslow Borough College, 1981 – 1983
Public Commissions
Alkerden Hub, integrated artwork for new community centre, Ebbsfleet, 2025 - current
Ascent, public art integrated commission, Thames Tideway, Cremorne pumping station, London, 2020 - current
Other Poems, public art commission, Harlow, Essex, 2025
Confluence, Browns Wood Public Art Project, Milton Keynes, 2024
Chalkstack, gateway sculpture, Ashmere, Ebbsfleet Garden City, 2023
Timekeeper, site specific sculpture, Ironworks, Cambridge Investment Partnerships, Cambridge, 2021
Flotsam & Lagan, Boston Buoys, two public sculptures, Boston, Lincolnshire, 2021
Fire Festival, sculptural fire screens for Seachange Arts Out There Festival, Great Yarmouth, 2021
Breathe, commissioned brise soleil, Hadleigh Leisure Centre, Hadleigh, Suffolk, 2021
The Blackwall Line, landmark sculpture and large scale glazing, Blackwall Reach, London, 2020
Highwire, metal entrance gates, Seachange Arts, Great Yarmouth, 2019
Inosculation, sculpture for private garden, Cambridge, 2019
Field, gateway sculpture, Colindale Gardens, Art Projects/Redrow Homes, London, 2017
Landmarks, public art project for Cumnor Hill, Oxford, 2016
Mermadelica, fountain bar, Seachange Arts, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, 2016
Da Lightsome Buoy, Pelagic Sculpture Project and Residency, Lerwick, Shetland, 2016
Artisan, signage and vinyl hoardings, RHS Chelsea Flower Show, London, 2015
Barley, Gleann Na hEorna, Percent for Art commission, Respond Housing Association, Tallaght, Dublin, 2015
Infectious Agents, public art commission with Hawkins Brown Architects, UTC College, Cambridge, 2014
Amaze, interactive tarmac design, Stoneham Park, Brighton & Hove, 2013
Mumbadevi, internal mural and series of limited edition prints, Abode Hotel, Mumbai, India, 2013
Protector, site specific sculpture and landscaping project, Art, Villes & Landsacpe, Amiens, France, 2013
Exchange, external wall artwork and signage, Kenninghall Primary School, Norfolk, 2013
Da-h-lias, three sculptures, signage and logo for the Fresh area at RHS Chelsea Flower Show, 2012
Tall Oak, internal artwork for new dementia care unit, Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, Norwich, 2012
Woodlanded, private commission, Cambridge, 2012
Forget-me-not, internal artwork for the dementia care ward, Coventry and Warwickshire hospital, 2011
The Takeaway Garden/Le Jardin a Emporter, Festival International des Jardins, Chaumont-sur-Loire, France, 2011
Unpicked Meadow, public art project in local nature reserve at Melbourn, Cambridgeshire, 2010
Beyond the Frame, curator for touring exhibition of 5 artists and 5 museums, Essex County Council, 2010
Farm Arts, The Great Outdoors, temporary artworks in two farms, Suffolk, 2010
Fruitpicking, commission for new library and community art project, Wisbech Library, Cambridgeshire, 2009
Secret Garden, external artwork and landscaping, Sedley Court, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 2009
Lost & Found, internal artwork for new centre for homeless young people, Bretts's Warehouse, Great Yarmouth, 2009
East feast, core artist on the Eastfeast NPCL, working in 3 schools in Suffolk and Essex, 2008 - 2009.
ArC 08, Artist Curator, Firstsite Gallery and Colchester consortium schools, 2008
Gallery Games, commissioned interactive learning resource for the ArC exhibition, Firstsite Gallery, Colchester, 2007
Marathon Oil, wall piece commissioned by Workplace Art, 2003
LTS Architects, London series of wall pieces comissioned for new offices, 2001
The King of Saudi Arabia, wall piece commissioned by Workplace Art, 1998
Flow and Flux, commissioned to make artwork for the new headquarters, The Co-Operative bank, Rochdale, 1996
Awards and Residencies
Fish Factory, Creative Centre of Stöðvarfjörður, Iceland, November, 2021
Firstsite Collecters' Group Bursery Award for the purchase of a printing press to develop new work, 2017
Sculpture is Sculpture, Firstsite, Colchester, family workshop and installation, 2014
Spacemakers, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, 2 year built environment project, 2012
Vital Communities, Ramsey, Cambs, residency working with a dancer and community groups, 2009
Culture of the Countryside, outreach project, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, 2008
Vital Communities, Cambridgeshire, community residency, Parson Drove, 2008
ArC 07, Firstsite Gallery and Bishop William Ward school, Colchester, school residency, 2007
Vital Communities, Cambridgeshire, 3 residencies in schools, 2007
ArC 06, Firstsite Gallery and Montgomery Infants school, Colchester, 2006
Weatherdays Residency, Wysing Arts, Cambridge, 6 month residency, 2005
Arc 05, Firstsite Gallery and Kings Ford primary school, Colchester, 2005
Artist Space, Firstsite Gallery, artist in residence and exhibition, 2005
The Drawing Room, Firstite Gallery, project with 8 schools and sixth form colleges, 2005
Greshams school, Norfolk, artist in residence, 2004
Exhibitions
Out on a limb, 303 projects, Lowestoft, 2026
Home, Royal Sculptors, London Art Fair, 2026
Everything is Art, silent auction, The Minories, Colchester, 2025
Summer Contemporary, Britten Pears Arts, Suffolk, 2025
London Art Fair, 303 Projects, Lowestoft, 2024
For Folks Sake, The Cut, Halesworth, 2024
Animal Vegetable Mineral, The Art Station, Suffolk, 2023
Art at Home, Kath & Co, online and solo exhibition, London, September, 2021
Curating for Corona, Kath & Co online exhibition, 2020
Old Jet, Bentwaters, Suffolk, 2019
Memory, The Bank Gallery, Suffolk, 2014
Blue Sky, Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 2009
Kettles Yard Open, Cambridge, 2007
Drawing: Imagination, Investigation and Process, Hay Gallery, Colchester, 2005
Salthouse 05, Salthouse Church, Norfolk, 2005
Emergency 2, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, 2005
Artist Space, Firstsite Gallery, Colchester, 2005
Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, 2005
MA Fine Art exhibition, Norwich, 2004
Ben Nicholson gallery, Greshams school, Norfolk, 2004
Material Spaces, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle, 2003
Art 03, England & Co Gallery, Business Design Centre, London.
Art 02, England & Co Gallery, Business Design Centre, London.
Passing Place, Sevenoaks Museum & Gallery, 2002.
Recent Work, England & Co, London, 2002
Showhome, Cadogan Place, London, 2001
Art 01, England & Co, Business Design Centre, London.
Art Textiles 2, Bury St Edmunds Museum & Gallery, Suffolk, 2000
3x3, SE1 Gallery, London, 2000
Art 00, England & Co, Business Design Centre, London, 2000
Solo exhibition, England & Co, London, 2000
Continuation, England & Co, London, 1999
Art 99, England & Co, Business Design Centre, London.
Art Futures, The Contemporary Art Society, Royal Festival Hall, London, 1998
Art 98, The Contemporary Art Society, Business Design Centre, London, 1998
Small Works, England & Co, London, 1998
Vital Art, Atlantis Gallery, London, 1998
Chelsea Crafts Fair, London, 1997
Small Objects of Desire, The Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, 1997
Pallent house, Chichester, 1997
Spheres & Surfaces, Orleans House Gallery, London, 1996
The Contemporary Art Society, Royal Festival Hall, London, 1994/5/6
The Art of the Stitch, Commonwealth Institute, London, 1990
A Sense of Order, McCormac, Jamieson & Pritchard Architects, 1990
Art For Offices, London, 1998
Workshops
Art + Nature, Trees - West Earlham Infants School and the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich 2026
Wild Wood, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Young Artists Studio, 2024
Art and Nature, West Earlham Infants, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, 2024
Creative Space, online visual arts activities designed for people living with Long Covid, Co Here Arts 2023
Art + Science + Nature, West Earlham Infant School, Sainsbury Centre, John Innes Centre, Norwich 2023
Clay Sculpture, half term workshops with the Art Station, Saxmundham, 2023
Open House, Kettle's Yard series of workshops with people living with chronic health conditions 2019
Sculpture is Sculpture, community art project, Firstsite, Colchester, 2014
Spacemakers, built environment outreach project, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, 2012
Culture of the Countryside, outreach art project, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, 2008
Vital Communities, three residencies in schools, Cambridgeshire, 2007-2009
Arc 05 – 08, Art researching citizenship project Firstsite Gallery and schools, Colchester, 2005 – 2008
Eastfeast, artist for NPCL project, three schools in Suffolk and Essex, 2008
Gallery Games, commissioned interactive learning resource for Firstsite, Colchester, 2007
As part of my public art projects, I have facilitated many creative workshops with wide and diverse groups of people
that have supported or developed the outcome of the public artwork.
Publications
Spacemakers project, Kettles Yard publication
Unpicked Meadow, book of poetry and images to accompany the project.
The Elephant in the Room, illustrations for an anthology of poetry Cambridgeshire libraries.
Kettles Yard Open catalogue.
Firstsite Paper with commissioned essay by Rebecca Wills.
Textile Perspectives in Mixed Media Sculpture.
Art Textiles 2, catalogue.
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