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
