JO DAVIDSON - AUSTRALIAN ARTIST
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​ In September 2015  Jo worked with  local Disability Groups on 'Heading Out'  for                 North Coast Disability Arts Access.
Jo constructed a 4 metre high Whale's Tail  from Polystyrene blocks  for workshop participants to decorate with recycled plastic bottles and led lights.

This sculpture was displayed in  the foyer of the GlassHouse Port Macquarie Regional Gallery and at the Port Macquarie Library.      It was designed to draw attention to the    impact of plastic on Ocean creatures  



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​Kamilaroi  
Festival of the Brolga 
                                                                   
Moree   with Beyond Empathy

      In November 2014  Jo and her artist partner Stephen Killick were commissioned by Beyond Empathy to build a giant Brolga puppet for the Kamilaroi Festival of the Brolga at Moree East Primary with assistance from Moree Kamilaroi artists.  

 Hosted by the Dusseldorp family, the Brolga Festival performance was given again in February 2015 at the
         Dusseldorp Forum Creative Collective's 25th year anniversary celebrations at Sydney Theatre Company Wharf Theatre. 

 Mubali  - Sea of Bellies    with Beyond Empathy since 2004
Jo worked for Beyond Empathy as lead artist and project coordinator of Mubali and Sea of Bellies .              
           This project began in Moree NSW in 2004 and has been translated into Lismore, Nambucca, Bowraville, Coffs Harbour, 
Forster, Taree, Redfern and the Illawarra in NSW ; Strathpine, Salisbury Logan & Capalaba in Qld,  and Derby in WA.
Working collaboratively with midwives from Aboriginal Maternal Health, community workers and art therapists
- offering belly casting for pregnant young aboriginal mums and following up with baby's hands and feet casting,
 as a means of engaging mums-to-be with health and social service providers, informing them,  
and creating  a support framework around them and their babies, through making art together. 
Elder Aboriginal women artists from the community are invited to participate, paint bellies hands and feet, 
and  sharing birthing stories, cultural knowledge and language.   www.seaofbellies.org.au    
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Forster mum Priscilla painting her belly cast at Tobwabba studio
Logan belly cast with dads hands painted by Jo
invitation for exhibition of painted bellies from Woodridge clinic at Logan Regional Gallery
artist Missy Knox with her mural for Logan Woodridge mums and bubs clinic
Moree artists Auntie Paula Duncan and trainee Tornelle Austin at Mubali in Moree
trainee artists and midwives at Mubali in Moree
belly casts in Capalaba waiting for the big paintup on Stradbroke Island
Be emerging artist Valerie Quinlin working on her Coffs bellies
Gunawirra Redfern babies' hands and feet
Gunawirra Redfern workers learning foot casting on obliging baby Kyran
Forster mum Nekiah with her belly cast
Auntie Pauline Briggs painting a Moree Mubali belly
Mubali belly casting in Moree
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Aquasculpture Community workshops
Jo has worked on the steering committee of Aquasculpture -Port Macquarie's bienial sculpture festival and prize 
since it began in 2003.  Working alongside guest artists she has run open community workshops 
to create large scale sculptural works for the festival    


Aquasculpture 2011  with special guest artists Lorraine Conelly Northey and Stephen Killick
 
2009    the Weatherman, Footprints, and  Windflowers made in community workshops with guest artist Alex Burne 
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2007  the Mythical Eagle Coola Bataba made with local Aboriginal artists Sue Evans and Kim Divine , 
 the Recycle Pyramid made with local primary school groups,
Butterfly and Chrysalis made in FreshArt  Youth Arts festival workshops
2005  Drought Mother made with Aboriginal TAFE students   Wauchope
2005 the Submerging City , the Jaws de Triomphe and Careful what you Fish for    made in community workshops with guest artists Tertius, Margrit Richenbach and Claude Tessier
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2003  Message in a Bottle Mandala, the Gift, the Refugee Boat  , and the Ancestors   made in community workshops with guest artists Sandy Elverd, Tertius, Margrit Richenbach and Claude Tessier





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FreshArt sculpture workshops   Port Macquarie 2005
Filling the Space  sculpture workshops  Gloucester Regional Gallery 2005 and 2002
Noosa Regional Gallery residency exhibition with Stephen Killick  1999
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