Joe Packer
Joe Packer’s recent paintings could be described as invented landscapes with a psychological element. These paintings try to evoke the memory of a place, whilst simultaneously, they evolve through making processes that are not preplanned or prescriptive. The resulting images aim to visually function in a self -contained way, with a kind of inner life of their own. These paintings occupy a kind of hinterland between abstraction, where the brushstrokes are non-referential, and figuration, where the spaces depicted allude and relate to landscape, without being overtly descriptive.
Joe Packer was awarded the Contemporary British Painting prize in 2018. Current and recent exhibitions include Unseen at the Towner Gallery, Eastbourne until May 2023. One World at Aleph Contemporary until June 2023, Entwined, at the Visual Art Centre, Scunthorpe until May 2023.Paint Edgy at the Ropewalk Gallery, Lincolnshire, 2022. From the Studio, Newhaven Art Projects, Newhaven. Paradoxes at Quay Arts, Isle of White, 2022, Matthew Burrows Selects at Unit 1 Gallery Workshop, London, 2021. Towner International at The Towner Gallery, Eastbourne,2021, We are Such Stuff as Dreams are Made On at the Cello Factory, London and Circling Forces at Aleph Contemporary London 2021 He studied MA painting at the Royal College of Art 1992-94 and BA Painting at Norwich School of Art 1989-92. He lives and works in St Leonard’s, East Sussex.
