Eva Joy London, United Kingdom
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Eva is a multidisciplinary artivist whose ideas circulate around protest, connection, apocalyptic possibilities, climate change and utopia. She often takes an anarchic view to traditional spaces for art and prefers using public interventions and community collaborations to spark energy for change.

Eva graduated with a BA in Fine Art and Art History from Manchester School of Art and The University of Barcelona. She is currently based in London and has always lived in cities; the grit and absurdity of which are often captured in her works. Her practice sits on a line between humour and horror, humour being a useful tool with which to approach hyperobjects such as the climate crisis and neoliberal global capitalism. She regularly uses recycled materials and objects collected from the streets to make work as an act of community cleaning and through which she enjoys subverting the elitism which surrounds the art world.

Links: 'SILENCED ~ REACTIVATED' residency with Idensitat in Alicante, Spain. https://www.idensitat.net/en/current-projects/transversal-aesthetics-2/id-cmcv/silenced-reactivated/1792-open-studio-shell-talk-3 https://www.beonloop.com/shell-talk-arte-ecologia-y-accion-comunitaria/

Sky Arts Interview for 'Unmuted' Season 2 Episode 5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7YAYIXut-c&t=7s&ab_channel=LicklemorProductions

'Radical Hope' (2021) billboard display and virtual exhibition for 'Future Visions' with CPP Hounslow Council. https://hounslowvisualarts.org.uk/future-visions-online-exhibition/

Artwork

Shell Talk (La Concha Que Habla), Sound Sculpture / Public Intervention, 2023

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All this Wanting, graphite and acrylic on wood, 2022, 40x42cm

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Hate is Incompatible , oil and collage on watercolour paper, 2021

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Pandemic Spring, Mixed media on canvas, 2020

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Venting in Ryebank, Film, 2020

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A Curious Electricity Pylon, mixed media on scrap metal frame, 2020

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Se Despiertan (They Awaken), bronze, 2019, as a pair £2,750, prints also available

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Medusas (Jellyfish), recycled plastic, metal and thread, 2019, individually on request

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Outside There Were Flowers, Installation: sterling board flowers, children's drawings, sound., 2018

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Bleach, Rise , spray paint and acrylic on board, 2018

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Concrete Dutch Landscapes, Paper collage and acrylic on board, 2017

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I Wish I Could Laugh, nitrous oxide canisters, tape, glaze, acrylic, 2020

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It's a Sign (The Beginning, The Flood, War, Utopia), mixed media on concrete/plastic panels on wooden post, 2017

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Turbines by a River, Lino print and mixed media, 2017

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MIRAN (They Watch), ink drawings onto original photographs, 2019

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Suburb Life, collage, oil and acrylic on scrap board, 2017

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And So We Dig, thread, oil on paint rag, 2018

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Scraps, mixed media on canvas, 2017, on request

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JOY, Paste-Ups, spray paint, ceramic, work on canvas/ scrap materials., Ongoing

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Radical Hope, Digital Collage, 2021

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OJOS, Placards: mole and mixed media on canvas, wood, ribbon, acryclic., 2022

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Pinche Pemex, Mole Salsa, acrylic and crayon on board., 2022

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Projects and exhibitions

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SILENCED ~ REACTIVATED an Idensitat exhibition

14/09/2024 — 02/11/2024

SILENCED~REACTIVATED united artistic projects which took place in Alicante, Valencia, and Benicarló, within the Transversal Aesthetics residencies programme, conceived by Idensitat in collaboration with the Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana. Projects including 'Shell Talk' by Eva Joy & Sally Maclachlan. The exhibition includes...

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Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras, Alicante, Spain Details

The PATHs Artivist Awards Biennale

03/09/2024 — 03/11/2024

The “PATHs” exhibition at Palazzo Pisani Revedin, curated by Peter Hopkins with co-curation by Diana Hohenthal und Bergen, offers visitors a vibrant artistic experience featuring installations, videos, photographs, paintings, and performances. Artists from around the world present works that delve into the complexities of identity in a...

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Palazzo Pisani Revedin, Venice Details

Yard Show

17/08/2024

A fundraising pop-up arts event curated by Earthlings for The Refugee Community Kitchen with a exhibiting artists, independent stalls and DJs.

Unit 3 Gallery, London Details

Shell Talk, Residency with Idensitat and the Consorci de Museus de la Comunitat Valenciana

10/12/2023 — 15/12/2023

Activating community connections and public spaces with collaborations and workshops to culminate in a parade of talking Pinna Nobilis audio sculptures. These shells amplified the stories collected over the course of the residency through internal speakers made from recycled materials. The Nacra, or Pinna Nobilis, is a Mediterranean inhabitant...

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El Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras, Alicante Details

The Exquisite Corpse

15/06/2023 — 21/07/2023

With SHIM Art Network and Amy Jackson, photographs of my bronze cast virus forms 'Se Despiertan' were exhibited as part of The Exquisite Corpse collating environmental-artworks. The concept of the Exquisite Corpse allows artists from all over the world to achieve representation in exhibitions without the need for expensive and unsustainable...

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Bla Bla Projektraum Germany & World of MOCO USA, Berlin & Bridgeport Details

The Absurd

26/08/2021 — 30/08/2021

Curated by FUBAR Collective, The Absurd featured the work of forty artists responding to the theme. Set in the amazing space of London’s Crypt Gallery, visitors were invited to wander around the 200-year-old crypt & immerse themselves in visual, interactive & performance art. I displayed five works; my Venting in Ryebank short film, large A...

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The Postcard Project

14/08/2021 — 15/08/2021

At the beginning of November 2020, and the start of the UK’s second national lockdown, ARTISTS RESPONDING TO ... sent 200 postcards across the UK to 200 artists. These artists were invited to reflect on the year 2020 and create artwork directly onto the postcards. The artistic responses in the project range from paintings, drawings, lino...

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147 Stoke Newington Highstreet, London Details

Unmuted Sky Arts

04/08/2021 — ongoing

I was featured on Licklemore Production's 'Unmuted' to discuss my work and how art can engage in protest and environmental discourse. Series 2 Episode 5.

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Photopocene Podcast

27/06/2021 — ongoing

https://anchor.fm/photopocene/episodes/Photopocene-with-Eva-Lawrence---Episode-10-e13egp7

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Inner-City: Out of Place VR Exhibition

24/04/2021 — ongoing

https://loisemmaharkin.wixsite.com/innercityoutofplace

Inner-City: Out of Place was designed to challenge the possibilities of contemporary exhibition design and Post-Studio practice. With no physical site to attend, measure, design or curate, this exhibition takes a step towards representing and understanding a turn of abstraction in...

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Little Voices, Kensington + Chelsea Art Week

11/10/2020

A group exhibition curated by Amy Jackson as the closing event of Kensington and Chelsea Art Week consisting of both emerging and established artists addressing the topic: transforming society to solve the climate crisis and the greatest inequalities of our time. Little Voices comprised of sculpture, performance, spoken word and visual art...

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Chelsea Telephone Exchange, London Details

Black Lives Matter Protest

07/06/2020

I set up this event with the help of BLM West London and Extinction Rebellion Richmond to provide an opportunity to protest for those who did not want to risk going into Parliament Square to join the bigger marches in town. I timed the silence, publicised the event and provided large banners to line this busy street. I believe this protest...

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Kew Green, London Details

Street Exhibition

16/05/2020

As an alternative to the final show of my degree I decided to put on an exhibition along the brick walls and back fences of my small street, inviting local kids and artists to join me. The day brought a sense of community to streets around us and has inspired me to keep making more unconventional spaces for art. You can view the exhibition at:...

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Walled, Hulme Community Garden Centre

29/02/2020 — 03/03/2020

A group exhibition organised by the Arts Society at Manchester School of Art, thematically exploring environmental concerns within an urban context. The works were displayed around this much loved community garden centre alongside workshops blending arts and permaculture practices.

Hulme Community Garden Centre, Manchester Details

All-Saints Takeover Protest

14/02/2020 — 14/10/2020

I organised this protest event to raise awareness of the Save Ryebank Fields campaign among the student population as it is Manchester Metropolitan University who are selling off the land given to them by the council to be used as a student resource. The event coincided with a Climate Strike march into town and with Valentines Day hence the...

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All Saints Square, Manchester Details

30 Pieces of Bronze

13/06/2019 — 15/06/2019

In this beautiful squatted art center in the hills of Barcelona myself and other artists from my metalwork class at The University of Barcelona Belles Artes put on an exhibition of our works in bronze alongside La Experimental’s weekend program of music and meditation events.

La Experimental, Tibidabo, Barcelona Details
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