JO DAVIDSON - AUSTRALIAN ARTIST
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 Jo Davidson                            
Outer Magnolia
 854 Forbes River Rd 
 Birdwood via Wauchope 
 NSW 2446
 ph: 02 65 877 178               0419 634 842
[email protected]                                 [email protected]   
www.jodavidson.net        @jodavidsonom          @outermagnoliastudio

lives and works in Birdwood NSW midnorth coast with artist Stephen Killick.
Son Jasper born 1987, daughter Nixi born 1989   both working artists  in Victoria
Tutored by SA artist Ruth Tuck 1967-1972
Studied S.A. School of Art Adelaide 1974-76
1977-1981 Travelled and worked SE Australia
1981-1984 Travelled and worked in UK and Europe

RESIDENCIES shared with Stephen Killick. 
2023  Outer Magnolia Artist in Residence established at their Birdwood NSW property     @outermagnoliastudio 
Gloucester Regional Gallery 2002 & 2005
Noosa Regional Gallery 1999
Hobart Art School 1993
London Air and Space studio 1983
Venice Italy Island of Poveglia 1982
Dalby Qld 1980

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025  Red Gallery  Fitzroy Vic
2019  Urrbrae House University of Adelaide SA  
2014 Port Macquarie Regional Gallery
2006 Blue Poles Gallery Byabarra, NSW
2001 Walcha Arts Council Gallery NSW
1999 Gallery 482 Brisbane
1995 Savode Gallery Brisbane
1994 Anima Gallery Adelaide
1993 Linocuts at Savode Gallery Brisbane
1990 Savode Gallery Brisbane
1988 Nino Tucchi Gallery Gold Coast
1987 Ray Hughes Gallery Brisbane
1986 Ray Hughes Gallery Sydney
             Anima Gallery Adelaide
1985 RHG Brisbane
1984 Reconnaissance Melbourne
1981 RHG Brisbane
          Gallery UpTop Rockhampton
1980 Contemporary Art Society Adelaide

  Most recent group exhibitions  
2022  THREE WOMEN FROM THE BUSH with local artists  Jacky Beckhurst and Colleen Werner   Wauchope Art Gallery NSW
           Hand Casts,  Sound Recordings and Portraits from Whiddon Aged Care with Photographer Kerry Wilson   
                           Wee Waa Regional Gallery NSW
2021  CONSTANT GARDENERS  with Stephen Killick and Samone Turnbull     Adelaide SA  West Gallery Thebarton

 COLLECTIONS
Port Macquarie Hastings Council
 Port Macquarie Base Hospital
Art Gallery of South Australia
 Australian National Gallery Canberra
Qld Art Gallery 
 Brisbane City Hall Gallery
Artbank
 Griffith University Brisbane
Gold Coast Gallery Qld
 QUT
Kelvin Grove Brisbane
 Dalby Art Gallery Qld 
Queenland Teachers Union
 University of SEQ Toowoomba
Australian Foreign Office in Bangkok
 Tate Gallery London

PUBLICATIONS
2017   Flourish autumn 2017  Special Delivery -Art for Babys sake 
2013 Spoonfull issue 1 Belly Up 
           www.couriermail.com.au/.../story-fn8m0u8i-1226598100871
2012 the Art of Pregnancy Australian Women’s Weekly - January
2004 Griffith Review
1997 Germaine Vol 1
1994 McCulloch
1991 Germaine (Women Artists)
1988 From Shadow Into Light South Australian Women Artists by Shirley Cameron Wilson
1985 Art Network winter Jo Davidson Works on Paper  Joseph Airo Farulla
1983 Oct Studio International Australian Artists at Air and Space

MURALS
2022  Hastings Postcards addition to Wauchope Map Mural  with WRAP Group    Hastings Coop
2021  Wauchope Riverside Community Sculpture and Mural 
2015  Wauchope Map Mural 
2008 Sea Acres Rainforest Centre, Port Macquarie NSW
2007 Oncology Treatment Room Port Base Hospital 
             Long Flat Store
2000 St Joseph’s Primary with Aboriginal Tafe students Wauchope NSW
1999 Werrikimbe Mural Bain Park Wauchope
1998 Aboriginal / Landcare Mural Wauchope
1997 Jesters Mural Wauchope Post Office
1996 Yarras School
1995 Long Flat School
Queensland Performing Arts Complex assistant to Lawrence Daws Brisbane 
 1981 Dalby Arts Centre 
  1977 Goodness Gracious Restaurants  in Adelaide and Byron Bay

PROJECTS
2024      Sculpture Commission for Guulabaa Koala Breeding Centre  Wauchope - Human viewing and info Pod
2022     Curator :   Wauchope Arts Council 25 Years Exhibition ;  Climate Change Australia Art Prize,  Wauchope Art Gallery, 
               Wauchope Community Mural  Hastings Coop
2021    Wauchope Rocks Ferry Community Sculpture project and collab with Biripi artist Angela Roberts on Bunyah LALC childrens Mural 
2019    Sea of Bellies   NAIDOC exhibitions Brisbane and Taree Manning Regional Gallery with launch of Sea of Bellies TOOLKIT                                   
2018        NAIDOC Exhibitions  "Because of her We Can"    Sea of Bellies in Origin HQ Brisbane Sydney and Melbourne       
                                                          Binjil Dubais   Lismore Regional Gallery  &   Mubali  Moree BAMM Regional Gallery 
2017        Sea of Bellies NAIDOC Exhibition Tobwabba Gallery Forster     http://www.seaofbellies.org.au/ 
2014 &16  Gamilaroi Beyond Empathy Festival of the Brolga  Moree NSW 
2013 -17 CCD for Beyond Empathy Sea of Bellies in Yuli BurriBa Capalaba, Strathpine, Salisbury in SEQ; Lismore-Binjil Dubais , Moree- Mubali,  Galimbilla                                Coffs Harbour, Tobwabba Forster and Gunawirra Redfern in NSW.
2012 - 08 CCD Lead artist for Beyond Empathy Sea of Bellies Ngarrwa Young Mothers Project Bowraville,
                Mubali Young Mother’s Project -Moree
                Belly casting in Logan, Illawarra Armidale and Derby WA
2011  Relativity Installation with Stephen Killick for Beyond Empathy  NERAM ARMIDALE NSW 
2011,09,07,05,03 CCD lead artist for Aquasculpture + steering committee
2008 Beyond Empathy Connections and 6x6 Moree
           Beyond Empathy Mubali Exhibition /Young Mother’s Project, Moree Regional Gallery, 
2004 HIP HOPERA- community multi media project Wauchope
           Beyond Empathy CCD artist Mubali Young Mother’s Project Moree
        Wauchope Street Banner project CCD with Tertius
          Project Officer for Port Macquarie City of the Arts  Confluence sculpture forum and events planning for 2003
Rubbish Rescue - the feasibility of setting up a Reverse Garbage style recycle operation for art/craft/diy operators in the Hastings region 

PERFORMANCE
1999 Soundtrack Journey to the Source Camden Haven MusicFestival
1998 Bellingen Global Carnival parade: giant processional lanterns for  Slippry Sirkus
      Soundtrack and puppet building with BadDags Theatre The Journey to the Source Wauchope Festival
1997 Soundtrack and puppet building BadDags The Summit Meeting
           Wauchope and Elands Festivals, Bellingen Global Carnival
1996 Soundtrack for Wauchope Regent Square Festival BadDags
1994 Soundtrack for BadDags production The Sword and the Grail
1992-96 Played synthesizer in various Bands - Geckos,    Kukaru      One Hell of a Holiday
1986 Sets and puppetry for meanwhile with Fast Foreheads  Bondi Pavillion
1979 Sets with Stephen Killick for Big Beak productions
1977 Performance with Howard Stanley's Dog Show La Mama Melbourne

 TEACHING part time
2022-2005 WRAP (Wauchope Regional Arts Program) workshops with local disabled artists in Mural painting , sculpture, lantern making, etc
2017-2004 Beyond Empathy workshops & camps; plaster casting,painting, silk screen printing, puppetry, jewellery
2009 Wauchope Tafe Cert 4 FA
2007 Great Lakes and Wauchope Tafe, DipFA, Cert4 FA, AACP
2006 Great Lakes and Wauchope Tafe, DipFA, Cert4 FA, AACP
2003- 2005 Wauchope Tafe, Fine Arts (history and theory) Aboriginal fibre/sculpture
            Wauchope Tafe, printmaking, art history, design, contemporary art
          Yarras Primary School art and craft
          Slippry Sirkus lantern workshops Taree Envirofair, and giant puppets Bingarra NSW
2002 workshops at Port Macquarie Regional Gallery masks
           Wauchope TAFE and Yarras Primary School
           Gloucester Gallery workshop/installation/exhibition
           Slippry Sirkus Pappinbarra camp workshops with indigenous/youth
2001 Wauchope and Kempsey TAFE, Yarras Primary School
2000 Wauchope TAFE Yarras Primary School
          Gloucester High School Printmaking Workshop,
            Sculpture by the River workshop with Friends of Gloucester Gallery
1999 Wauchope, Pt Macquarie and Kempsey TAFE painting, drawing and printmaking
          Yarras Primary School art and craft
1998 Wauchope TAFE arts and craft, printmaking
          Yarras Primary School art and craft
            workshops Bellingen Global Carnival with Slippry Sirkus processional lanterns
1997 Wauchope TAFE arts and craft, jewellery making
           Yarras Primary School art and craft
           workshops at Bellingen Global Carnival for procession event
1996 workshops at Coff's Carnivale processional puppets
1985-6 Kelvin Grove CAE Brisbane -painting












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