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Jo Wilmot

Place of birth Birmingham
Country of residence United Kingdom
Contact jowilmot@hotmail.com

There's a seductive nature to luxury cars; a dangerous edge to these powerful machines. While Jo Wilmot’s paintings celebrate this material desire they also seem slightly detached, even cynical.

Wilmot is a painter who revels in the medium. Playing with paint to create claustrophobic scenes, she generates a tension between the gestural handling and her sleek subject - the ultimate consumer object - the car. Her painterly technique constructs work which is dark and foreboding, frequently heading towards abstraction.

Wilmot’s paintings are generally flat with passages of glossy, built-up areas and with visceral areas of crusty paint


Although employing a high-impact, painterly approach, this series is understated with a cinematic air. There’s a sense of a stalled narrative at work in Wilmot’s paintings, asking, ”What next?.


Selected exhibitions:
2008
Men and Motors, Studio 1.1, London
Altered States, Francis Kyle Galery, New York
The Painting Room, Transition Gallery, London


2007
Arboreal, Transition, London (Curated by Tobi Deeson)
Spit roast, Gallery 33, Berlin
Intersection II, Resy Muijsers Contemporary Art, Tilberg, the Netherlands
2006
Intersection, Resy Muijsers Contemporary Art, Tilberg, Netherlands (Curated by Ton Von Kempen)
Beauty and the Beast, Fieldgate Gallery, London (Curated by Richard Livingston and Laura White)
Concrete Allotment, Temporary Contemporary, London
Domesticity, Bournemouth
2005
Young Gods 3, Clapham Art Gallery, London
Fuck Art Let’s Paint, Transition, London
Eng-er-land, Gallery 102, Tea Building, London (Curated by Cathy Lomax)
2004
Attack on Precinct Deborah, Deborah House, London

Exhibitions Start Your Collection 2008!, 01.Aug - 21.Sep.08, Contemporary Art Projects, Men and motors, 04.Jul - 27.Jul.08, Studio 1.1, Arboreal, 05.May - 03.Jun.07, Transition Gallery, Summer exhibition 2006, 17.Aug - 03.Sep.06, Contemporary Art Projects, Winter Exhibition 2006, 26.Jan - 26.Feb.06, Contemporary Art Projects

Publications Garageland : Beauty, 2007, Garageland : Painting & Translating, 2007, Garageland : Nature, 2006

Links London on Loan

 

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