Jo D’Hage is a practicing artist and art lecturer currently teaching in the Bachelor of Visual Art program, University of Canberra, TAFE Queensland Brisbane. During the past three decades of being an art educator Jo believes it has been a privilege to facilitate the creative art process in many students from post-graduate to undergraduate level. Harnessing creativity and channeling it into an expressive, visual language has been at the forefront of Jo’s professional pursuits as both artist and art educator.
Formal Qualifications include:
2017 Doctorate of Visual Art
Queensland College of Art, Griffith University.
1986 M.A. of Art in Art (Studio)
University of New Mexico, U.S.A.
1980 Diploma in Teaching (Art)
Kelvin Grove College of Advanced Education,
Brisbane.
1979 Diploma of Fine Art
Queensland College of Art, Brisbane.
During her long career in art education Jo has taught at a number of universities and Queensland TAFE colleges including Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane (2015-1990) and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, U.S.A. Studying and teaching at the University of New Mexico (1986-1984) was made possible by the support of the Queensland Art Gallery through the Melville Haysom Memorial Art Scholarship.
Artist residencies attached to universities in New Caledonia, Vietnam, China, and Japan afforded Jo the opportunity to not only work as an artist in a foreign country but to witness first hand their art departments, programs and student engagement. In October 2011, Jo was invited to participate in a residency with the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts (Geidai). At the conclusion of the residency, she exhibited her work in a group exhibition at the esprit GST sightseeing Art Project hosted by Geidai at the Sumida Riverside Gallery, Tokyo. These invaluable experiences contribute to Jo’s broader understanding of art and education.
Jo has been invited to give artists talks, deliver workshops and participate on numerous judging panels as part of her professional industry experience. A selection include:
2018
Invited to deliver an Artist workshop hosted by Artisan, Craft Queensland, Brisbane
2017
Invited to participate on a panel as examiner for Honours, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
2013
Invited to deliver an artist talk at the Redcliffe City Art Gallery Artist’s workshop hosted by Redland city council
2011
Invited to deliver an artist talk at the Tokyo University of Arts (Tokyo Geidai), Kyoto Saga University and the Joshibi University in Tokyo, Japan.
2010
Invited to Judge 2010 Queensland Youth Awards Exhibition hosted by John Paul College, Brisbane
2008
Finalist Judge for the Creative Generation Excellence Award in Visual Art and Design
Invited to Judge 2008 Queensland Youth Awards Exhibition hosted by John Paul College, Brisbane
2005
Artist workshop for Secondary Art teachers Association - professional development at Queensland Collage of Art, Griffith University
Artist workshop for Secondary Art teachers Association - professional development – Cairns Community Arts Centre.
Collections:
Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland
Regional Galleries Association of Queensland
Australian Embassy - Hanoi, Vietnam
Gold Coast Art Collection
Selected exhibitions:
2019
Body in Flux – Art Space Rashinban, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2018
Under Civilization – Gympie Regional Gallery, Gympie
Changes – forty years of creativity, POP GALLERY – Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
The Vagina Monologues – Selected works exhibited at Magda Community Artz Inc. Bardon, Queensland
2017
Humanizing the Abject: Metaphors for the Female Body, POP Gallery – Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
Tucker’d Out! Works from the Brian Tucker Collection, KickArts, Contemporary Arts, Gallery One, Centre of Contemporary Arts, Cairns
2013
Crafting Memory – Redland Art Gallery, Cleveland
Shared Vision...Wspólna Wizja. A traveling group exhibition POP/Art Factory Gallery, South Bank, Brisbane, 10th to 17th May
2011
Pop Start – Postgraduate and other projects Gallery, Brisbane
Shared Vision...Wspólna Wizja. A traveling group exhibition to
Poland. WROCŁAW - Academy of Art and Design; 14 - 29 Nov 2011, LUBLIN - Maria Curie-Sklodowska University - Galeria Zajezdnia; 12 - 27 Jan. 2012, SANOK - BWA Galeria Sanocka 3rd to 20th April, ŁÓDŹ - Academy of Fine Arts - Galeria KOBRO, 12 - 31 Mar. 2012, Warsaw - Studio MARMALADA, 14 31 May 2012
esprit group exhibition, GST sightseeing Art Project hosted by Tokyo University of Fine Arts (Geidai), Sumida Riverside Gallery, Tokyo. 23rd to 29th October
2010
Vestiges of hope unseen (scheduled exhibition in September) – Fortyfivedownstairsgallery, Flinders Lane, Melbourne.
2010
The Curious Collector – Project Gallery, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University
2009
Gaia Dreaming –- Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane.
2007
Artists x HMAS Diamantina Installation based work exhibited in a group exhibition on the HMAS Diamantina. 24th August to September - Queensland College of Art Staff Exhibition
Jo D’Hage’s current art practice investigates the metaphorical interpretation of the female body.
Humanising the Abject: Metaphors for the Female Body is an exhibition that contributes to the feminist critique of female representation. By delving more deeply into the materiality of both form and content in her work D’Hage intends to make visible her interpretation of the multiple histories that living has afforded her—the jouissance of being-human.