Halo Nevus
Jo McGonigal’s practice begins with a visual analysis of historical Baroque painting as a basis for understanding the medium as a complex spatial construction. These observations materialise into ‘spatial paintings’ constructed out of physical things in real space, where architectural concerns become complicit with the work. She uses both found and everyday materials, to examine the formal grammar of pictorial language - the vernacular of painting, where moments of drama, stillness, distance, translucency, edge and colour, co-operate to develop an understanding of painting as a retinal, physical and spatial event, activating the body as much as the eye.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Blinder, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow UK
2018 Act Seven: Paler, Blinder University of Leeds UK
2017 SWG3 Glasgow (Produced in partnership with Patricia Fleming Projects), Glasgow UK
2017 Raumx Projects, London UK
2016 SHIFT, Patricia Fleming Projects, Glasgow
2015 Between Painting and Place, Platform A, Middlesbrough
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Fully Awake, Edinburgh University Galleries for Edinburgh Art Festival UK
2018 After an Act, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2017 International Biennial of Non-Objective Art, Lyon France
2017 The Solo Award, The Cello Factory, London UK
2017 Eccentric Geometric, Arthouse1, London UK
2016 From A to C; This Being B, Caustic Coastal, Salford UK
2016 Ingredients, Method, Serving Suggestion, APT Gallery, London
2016 The Marmite Prize for Painting V, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland
2016 The Marmite Prize for Painting V, Block 336, London
2016 Transparent Things, Vane, Newcastle
2015 Cascading Relevant Information, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
2015 Gray Face, Perennial, Bristol
2015 Real Painting, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester
2015 Poppositions 2015, Art Brussels (CePRA Award, University of Leeds)
2014 Something Like Now, Cardroom, Manchester
2014 Neo Print Prize, Neo Gallery, Bolton
2014 Society of Island Universes, Manchester (Curated by Lisa Denyer)
2014 Straddle the Line, APT Gallery, London (Curated by Della Gooden and Catherine Ferguson)
2013 Contemporary Art Society Event, Mirabel, Manchester
2013 Summer Show, MALGRAS l NAUDET, Manchester
2013 Some Recent Examples, Lever Street, Manchester
2013 Housing a Pig, Flood Gallery, Dublin
2012 Cabedal, Platforma Revolver, Lisbon
2012 60 Drawings, Bankley Studios, Manchester
2011 We are all in this together, Bureau, Manchester
2011 Untitled, FAFA GALLERY, Helsinki
2010 Uncertain Limitations, Bankley Studios, Manchester
2010 Hive Gallery, Manchester
2009 Kiss of a Lifetime, BEARSPACE, London
2009 Northern Print Biennale VANE, Newcastle
2008 Future 50s PSL [Project Space Leeds] & Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
2008 Economic Thought Projects, Ard Bia Gallery, Berlin (Curated by Russel Hart)
AWARDS
2016 Selected for Marmite Prize for Painting