Jo Austen
In both my artwork and writing, I explore the incongruous, the unexpected, and patterns both unintentional and designed.
I am drawn to landscapes and fairy tales, and the resonance of the processes of change.
Portfolio
A selection of prints.
Dungeness Beach — viscosity print, exhibited in the Turner Contemporary in 2022.
Collapse of the Wave Function — etching shortlisted for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2023, and the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2023.
Headland — etching.
Only If You’re Quiet — etching.
You Left Without Saying Goodbye — etching.
Over and Under — etching and aquatint.
Floral Entanglement — etching.
Alliums — etching.
Protea Cocktail — etching.
Oare Marshes — etching.
Writing
Novels:
Pomegranate
Dyscircadia
Forty-Two - Long-listed for the MsLexia Novel Award, 2022.
Short Stories:
‘Marmalade’ — Highly Commended in Leaf Writers Competition and published in Foresight with Hindsight (2010)
Articles & Essays:
Female Initiation Rites in Fairytales: why the good mother has to die
- content journal, issue 4: capri, 2018
Poisonous Apples and Grim(m) Gingerbread Houses: on the subversive role of food in fairytales - content journal, issue 3: ukiyo, 2018