Joanne Matthews
Edinburgh, GB
Bio
Bio
Producing Practice
Jo offers online support services for artists; “walk and talk” strategy sessions and application writing support for artists at all stages of their careers. Their work is often undertaken at a systems-based level, guided by the ecofeminist tenets of collaboration, entanglement and environmental awareness. This way of working involves radical listening practices, as well as futuring practices, that seek to articulate and actualise more care-full and equitable strategies in the arts.
Jo’s experience and interest in accessibility, equity and environmentally-focused working has led to them to be a key player in shaping policy and working practices in organisations across the United Kingdom.
The projects that Jo usually works on as a producer do not fit into clear-cut categories, and sit across visual and sonic art, live art, theatre and dance. Jo often works at the development stage of projects, setting things up to ensure their longevity. These projects mainly happen in unusual spaces or as process-based works, drawing upon Jo’s experience in cross-sector collaboration, real-time problem solving, as well as the articulation and delivery of work in the in-between.
Areas of Expertise
- Access and disability
- Collaborative and cross-sector working
- Process-based works
- Vision and strategy
- Artist development
- Projects for/in non-traditional sites and venues
- Embodied fieldwork
- Environmentalism, transfeminist and deep ecologies
Collaboration Interests
Jo is interested in working with artists to research, develop, plan, manage, curate and support new projects across visual, sonic and live art and theatre. Jo offers online “walk and talk” strategy sessions and application writing support for artists at all stages of their careers. They are especially good at “the interesting sticky stuff”, as well as at helping to articulate framing and context for projects at the intersections or that don’t quite know what they are yet.
Jo’s services are open to all; however, they always prioritise artists who are disabled, neurodivergent, femme, non-binary or trans.
