JoWOnder previously know as Joanna Woodward is internationally recognized as one of today’s leading artists. She has been instrumental in the establishment of animation as a vital form of contemporary art, and in so doing has helped to expand its status in terms of content and historical reach. Using the power of image to challenge established notions; she has made paintings and animations out of living materials and unseen entities and is an award winning film maker. She was educated at St Martins School Of Art in London and The National Film School in the UK.

Jo explores the power of images to challenge our most basic assumptions. Combining the traditions of stop frame animation with improvised stories, she has created short narrative films for television broadcast, video installations, for diverse settings such as Guildford Cathedral, and a body of painting, the essential quality of which is humour and irony that is underlined by a sophisticated cartoon like visuality. It could be argued that Jo`s animators eye, and narrative concerns have now been developed into a unique language of painting.

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Her single channel videotapes have been widely broadcast and presented cinematically.

Some of the themes of her work express far reaching interests that question the nature of life with both a tragic and satirical eye. She has been funded to carry out research into the links between creativity and learning and is particularly interested in the possibility that an aesthetic symbolic language can increase interest in science and stimulate the mind to understand more about the complexity of life. Her paintings have been sold to private collections and she has been commissioned to perform with some of her more recent interactive animation to the public.
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