Joanne Linsdell is a Ballarat based artist and teacher, living and working on Wadawurrung country. Her artwork explores our relationship to everyday domestic and industrial objects. Through drawing and sculpture she recreates these items and develops personal meaning with decorative gestures.
She has recently held a solo exhibition at Backspace gallery through the Art Gallery of Ballarat where she reproduced a collection of her late father’s tools gathered from a workshop on the family property in Bacchus Marsh prior to sale.
Her parallel practice in ceramics and drawing, combine together to create handmade, utilitarian, production pieces. Linsdell develops original moulds, shaped to cast in either slip or plastic clay. These are illustrated with decals of her drawings reflecting her cultural and natural environment.
Linsdell has exhibited widely throughout Victoria and New South Wales and has been awarded artist residencies, twice at Hill End, through Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, also at Noosa Regional Art Gallery and Gippsland Institute of Technology. In 2003 she was awarded the Muswellbrook Open Ceramic Award and was a finalist in the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize.
In 1995 she completed her Master of Fine Art by Research at Sydney University (Sydney College of the Arts). This included a six-month exchange at Glasgow School of Art.
Joanne has worked as an arts educator in a range of settings and as a Props Maker at Sydney Theatre Company, both of which continue to influence her art making. She is currently teaching ceramics at aged care facilities around the Ballarat region.
You can contact Joanne directly at jinsdello@gmail.com