About Jo Brown
1945 - Born in Tunbridge Wells, Kent
1963-66 - Bretton Hall College Music and Art. Cert of Education
1966-73 - Teaching in West Yorkshire
1980-87 - Teaching in West Yorkshire
1990-95 - Sheffield Hallam University BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting
1995 - Selected to be an artist in residence at Dean Clough, Halifax.
1995 - present - exhibiting regularly in public and private galleries
Selected solo exhibitions
Artsmill Gallery, Hebden Bridge
Dean Clough Crossley Gallery Open Pathways
Control Tower Gallery Corporate Spaces, Kings Hill Kent (With Frickleton Fine Art)
The Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth The Sunbeam and the Storm
20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Scunthorpe The Sunbeam and the Storm
Cupola, Sheffield New Paintings
According to McGee, York Ice and Fire
Huddersfield Art Gallery Interface
Rotherham Art Gallery Interface
Bexley Wing Atrium Gallery, Yorkshire Oncology Centre, Leeds
Wakefield City Art Gallery Only the Timeless
The Piece Hall Art Gallery, Halifax Only the Timeless
Workhouse Fine Art, London
Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax Walking the Coast
Smith Art Gallery, Calderdale Home from Home
Trinity Arts, Tunbridge Wells Home from Home
The Ceilidh Place, Ullapool
Morven Gallery, Isle of Lewis
AXIS Gallery, Leeds The Mullion Series
Selected two person/group exhibitions
Linden Hall Studio Gallery, Deal
Water Street Gallery, Todmorden Represented Artist
Gallery 68, Ulverston, Cumbria
Dean Clough Crossley Gallery Showcase
Cupola Gallery, Sheffield Ongoing exhibitions
Kunsthuis Gallery, Crayke OUR EARTH
Black Box Touring Boecker Contemporary, Heidelburg, Germany; Kunstlerhaus Saar, Saarbrucken, Germany; La ‘S’ Grand Atelier, Vielsalm, Belgium; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Metz, France; Centre d’Art
Contemporain, Luxemburg
Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks Edgelands
Trinity, Tunbridge Wells Art Rocks! Collaboration with American sculptor Karen Gardner
Cricket Fine Art, Chelsea, London Art London
The Green House, Berlin
Piraeus Museum and Art Gallery, Athens
The Menier Gallery, London
Silson Contemporary Art, Harrogate
Dean Clough Galleries, Crossley Gallery Landshapes. Artists from UK and the Netherlands
ArtMobile, Stockholm Open Art with SCI Arts
Water Street Gallery, Todmorden Landmarks, Small Things
SHINE Business Centre, Harehills Leeds drawing exhibition
Orange County Center for the Arts, USA
The Cello Factory, Waterloo, London with The London Group
The Lime Gallery, Laguna Beach, California, USA
‘Ljosnott’, Iceland
Bruton, Leeds The Music Show
Quay Art, Hull Into the Light
Orange Street Gallery, Uppingham A is for Abstract
Selected awards
2005 Arts Council Award research and development and making new work
2001 Individual Artist Award from Yorkshire Arts
1999 Individual Artist Award from Yorkshire Arts
1998 Award from Manchester Academy of Fine Art
1996 Individual Artist Award from Yorkshire and Humberside Arts
Selected work in collections
The Hepworth Wakefield
The Dean Clough Collection
Rotherham Art Gallery
Huddersfield Art Gallery
Bradford MBC
Calderdale MBC
Union Properties, London
Mrs Rotraut Hard
Carey Jones Architects
Deutsche Bank, London
Art in Hospitals Trust
Calderdale Healthcare Trust
TWGGS Tunbridge Wells
The Hon. Mrs M. Lumley Saville