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Episode 531 / Jo Dennis
Jo Dennis (b. 1973, UK) is a British artist based in London. Her practice spans two decades,
working across painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. Dennis explores our
psychological and emotional connection to place and memory, specifically in relation to ruination,
surface, and decay, and how these themes link with notions of mortality.
Dennis received her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2022) and her BA in
Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Theory from Goldsmiths College, London (2002).
Recent exhibitions: Never the Straightest Path (solo) Belenius, Stockholm, Sweden 2026: A Letter
to my Daughter (solo) Carvalho New York 2025: The Long Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, curated
by Phillipa Adams 2025: David Zwirner PLATFORM (group) curated by Elisabeth Johs 2025, A
Glass of Absinth (solo) at JO-HS, Mexico City 2025.
A Hopper Prize grant winner (2025) and a recipient of an Arts Council England Grant (2023-24),
Dennis is the co-founder of several artist lead projects in London; Pigeon Park (2021-22)
Peckham 24 Photo Festival (2016 - 2024) AMP Gallery (2015 - 2018) and Asylum Chapel (2010 -
current) She has collaborated with Sid Motion Gallery on five solo projects (2017-2023)
including the launch of her artists book ‘I touched this with my hand, I touched that with my eye’
(2020) Dennis is a trustee and sits on the Artists’ council for the Artists’ General Benevolent
Institution.
Her work was recently included in The Book Of Ladders, 100 Contemporary Art Works, edited by
Paul Carey Kent and Adeline de Monseignat (2023), and Site Specific by Tall Poppy Press (2023).
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Episode 531 / Jo Dennis
Jo Dennis (b. 1973, UK) is a British artist based in London. Her practice spans two decades,
working across painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. Dennis explores our
psychological and emotional connection to place and memory, specifically in relation to ruination,
surface, and decay, and how these themes link with notions of mortality.
Dennis received her MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, London (2022) and her BA in
Fine Art and Contemporary Critical Theory from Goldsmiths College, London (2002).
Recent exhibitions: Never the Straightest Path (solo) Belenius, Stockholm, Sweden 2026: A Letter
to my Daughter (solo) Carvalho New York 2025: The Long Now, Saatchi Gallery, London, curated
by Phillipa Adams 2025: David Zwirner PLATFORM (group) curated by Elisabeth Johs 2025, A
Glass of Absinth (solo) at JO-HS, Mexico City 2025.
A Hopper Prize grant winner (2025) and a recipient of an Arts Council England Grant (2023-24),
Dennis is the co-founder of several artist lead projects in London; Pigeon Park (2021-22)
Peckham 24 Photo Festival (2016 - 2024) AMP Gallery (2015 - 2018) and Asylum Chapel (2010 -
current) She has collaborated with Sid Motion Gallery on five solo projects (2017-2023)
including the launch of her artists book ‘I touched this with my hand, I touched that with my eye’
(2020) Dennis is a trustee and sits on the Artists’ council for the Artists’ General Benevolent
Institution.
Her work was recently included in The Book Of Ladders, 100 Contemporary Art Works, edited by
Paul Carey Kent and Adeline de Monseignat (2023), and Site Specific by Tall Poppy Press (2023).

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