Jo Hummel / United Kingdom
nueva exposición, Víctor Lope Arte Contemporáneo, Carrer Aribau 75, 08036 Barcelona”
27/02/25 - 29/3/25
artist: Jo Hummel / title: Consious Dust / medium: watercolour paper stained in nettle, gorse and avocado dye bath / dimensions: 150 x 210 cm / year 2024
artist: Jo Hummel / title: Beats in Yellow / medium: acrylic on paper with steel fixings / dimensions: 123 x 143 x 5 cm / year: 2023
artist: Jo Hummel / title: Ever IV Cropped / medium: acrylic, clay pigment on paper and poplar ply / dimensions: 65 x 75cm
artist: Jo Hummel / title: Never Never / medium: acrylic an paper and plywood / dimensions: 150 x 220cm
Jo Hummel by Maria Bell Photography
Jo Hummel’s work is deeply rooted in reductionism, evident through symbols and geometry.
This exploration of minimalism mirrors ancient spiritual concepts such as Sunya, the Sanskrit term for void and infinity, which speaks to the balance between emptiness and possibility. Also evident is her interest in the principles of sacred geometry, natural cycles and human rituals.
Colour assumes a pivotal role in Hummel’s work, valued both for its subjective sensory impact and its psychologically transcending qualities.
Speaking about the making of the work, Hummel describes her chosen material (paper) as domestic and ephemeral, an everyday surface manipulated with urgency using household tools such as scissors and knives.
Created using primitive building methods such as weaving, marquetry, joinery, and layering, the sculptural paintings are formed through a careful balance of shape, colour, form, and material, generating a fragmented spectrum of the human condition.
The nature of collage is that each work is in constant flux. Working within the dependable environment of ritualistic systems and repetition, Hummel explores the unpredictable nature of spontaneity, each piece serving as a passage into the realm of a subconscious exploratory activity. In doing so each painting contains something profoundly personal from the artist, knowingly intertwined with formal abstraction.
Jo Hummel b. 1982, UK. Graduated Royal College of Art
Jo has exhibited extensively internationally. Solo and joint: Somewhere here, But far away, 45 Parklane London, Template, Fold Gallery London, Looking Out, Barnard Gallery Cape Town (2023)
Love Letter, Gruin Gallery, LA (2022) A True Story, Nordic Art Agency, Malmo, Rock, Paper,
Scissors, Fold Gallery London, Automatic, Victor Lope Gallery Barcelona (2021) Group: Interface,
Curated by Annuschka Leung Le grand Palais, Lille, Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London
(2021/22/23) Studio: Response 01 Saatchi Gallery, London (2021) Simulation Paintings, After
Nyne Gallery London (2021), Transformer I & II, And Gallery Edinburgh, and Nordic Art Agency
Malmo Sweden (2019) Deep End Echo, Sid Motion Gallery, London (2018) Jerwood Drawing
Prize, Jerwood Space, London (2012) Notable selected exhibitions include RA Summer Exhibition,
Jerwood Drawing Prize, Afternoon Tea curated by WW Gallery, 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice.
Collections include: Christian Dior Collection Paris, Kilburn Collection Cape Town.
Press:
Observer, ‘Next Generation turns its back on Emin and Hirst’s conceptual artworks’ Vanessa
Thorpe, (2011)
Times, ‘Picking up a Picasso is one click away’ Mark Bridge, 2012
Mail online, Femail, Want to make a healthy return as an aspiring art investor? Andrew Bullock,
(2018)