press release

Joanna Jones | Change | Painting
9 September – 20 October 2017
Opening at Galerie Gilla Lörcher: Friday 8 September 2017, 19 h
Pohlstr. 73, 10785 Berlin
Wed-Sat 13-18h

Öffnungszeiten zur / Opening hours during Berlin Art Week (14-17 September):
So/Sun 12-19h

Galerie Gilla Lörcher | Contemporary Art is very pleased to present „Change“, the solo show of British artist Joanna Jones (born 1945).
Joanna Jones’s practice over several decades has included painting and performance. Interested in the inter-connectedness of things, thoughts and encounters she has developed a performative process in painting that positions her body as an agency of a particular kind of knowing and takes painting into the territory of an event.

Further paintings by artist Joanna Jones are on view at the group show „Narration“ at Kühlhaus, Berlin, curated by Marianne Kapfer. Location: Kühlhaus, Berlin | 9.-18.09. Opening 8.9.,19 h | open daily from 13-18h, during Berlin Art Week extended opening hours: 12-19 h | Kühlhaus: Luckenwalder Str. 3, 10963 Berlin – next to the Art Berlin fair (14.-17.09.)

British artist Joanna Jones lives and works in Dover (UK). Following a foundation year at Northwich College of Art, she continued her studies in London at the Byam Shaw School. Jones received her National Diploma of Design in painting from Goldsmith`s College, and graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 1970. Joanna Jones is a recipient of several art awards including the first prize in the Greater London Councils painting competition (1969), a scholarship from Künstlerhaus Balmoral in 2000 and an Arts Council England Year of the Artist award for a work at Samphire Hoe in 2001.
Her work has been shown in many international art institutions and galleries s.a.: Arts Council England, Dover (UK); Royal Academy, London (UK); Wrexham Arts Centre, North Wales (UK); The City Gallery of Leicester, Leicester (UK); Leicester City Museum, Leicester (UK); National Gallery of Canada, Montreal (CDN); Taipeh Gallery, New York (US); Künstlerhaus Balmoral, Bad Ems (D); London Biennale 2004, London (UK); Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, curated by Peter Wairmeir/Ingrid Mössinger, (D); Stadtmuseum Bad Ems, Bad Ems (D); Museum Mühlheim, Mühlheim (D); Offenes Kulturhaus, Linz, curated by Sigrid Schade, (D); Pharos Center for Contemporary Art, Nicosia (GR); Pharos Trust, Melina Mercury Cultural Center, Nicosia (GR); Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt (D); Städtische Galerie, Bad Soden (D); Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin (D); Space Gallery Folkstone, Folkstone (UK); Galerie Kyra Maralt, Berlin (D); Galerie Wild, Frankfurt (D); Galerie Klaus Werth, Frankfurt (D); Galerie Gilla Lörcher | Contemporary Art, Berlin (D) a.o