MsoNormal">Joanne Boyle is a visual artist and art educator working and living in Ireland. Boyle’s practice is studio-based and rooted in painting. Being materials led, Boyle’s paintings explore embodiment through the mimetic nature of substance, the stuff of paint. Boyle utilises hands-off techniques to play with loss of control, through procedure and chance.

Boyle has exhibited throughout Ireland and the UK, in both group and solo shows. Boyle completed two years of Turps Correspondence Course, London(2021)(2022) and is a graduate of IADT Visual Arts Practice (2009). Boyle was awarded the Arts Council’s Agility Award (2022)(2021), Artists Award Scheme, Wicklow Arts Office(2021), RHA microgrant(2020) RCSI Research Residency (2017), Visual Art Workspace Award, Arts Council(2016) Awarded residency Cill Rialaig(2015) Residency at The Guesthouse Cork(2014), Studio & Mentorship award from DLR Arts Office(2009) Boyle was a founding member of Outpost Studios,2014. Recent solo exhibitions include; the Mermaid Arts Centre,2019. The Courthouse Tinahealy (2024) Selected group shows include; ‘Do Not Swallow’, Safehouse 1&2, London, (2023) ‘Connections’, Boyle Arts Festival Exhibition,(2023) ‘Mud for You’, Fitzrovia Gallery, London, (2023) ’Hark’, Hambly & Hambly group show, Enniskillen,(2023) ‘Twenty One‘ Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray(2023) ‘The Pleasure Ground’, Rathfarnham Castle, (2022) ‘St. Bridgets Well’, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, (2022) Artform 44 The Quay, Waterford, (2021) Dunmaise Arts Centre, (2021) PeripheriesOPEN Gorey School of Art, (2017), (2018) Signal Arts Centre(2021)(2009) Mermaid Arts Centre(2013)(2016) Panorama Pallas Projects (2015) Taylor Gallery Summer Show (2014) RHA Annual Exhibition (2014)(2012).

Boyle has been shortlisted for the John Richardson Residency in France through Hambly & Hambly and will show work in Beijing, London and New York in 2024 as well as a solo show in The Courthouse, Tinahealy, Ireland.

Joanne Boyle - 'Echo Locater'

Joanne Boyle - 'Echo Locater'