Jodie Wingham

With a keen interest in challenging what print can be, artist Jodie Wingham creates printed artworks that cross different mediums, processes, and materials. Selecting particular techniques for specific pieces of work the outcome is varied, such as screen prints on folded metal sculptures, prints cast within the surface of plaster, and more conventional paper prints. Whatever the particular techniques chosen, it is selected to suit the subject matter of the work, rooted in the artists desire to make viewers engage with imagery more than they experience on a daily basis.

From her studio in the West Midlands and Birmingham Printmakers, Jodie tells us that she seeks “to combine traditional techniques with modern technologies, materials, processes to explore the photographic image, crossing disciplines and challenging misconceptions of what print can be.”

Jodie’s practice investigates the nature of looking. Inspired by the act of observing others and the audiences’ enjoyment of this process she focuses on the viewers desire to gain information, what satisfaction we receive when an image is presented to us that reveals something not usually seen, a glimpse into the hidden. Using imagery with voyeuristic tendencies, where private moments are captured, she offers the audience the opportunity to fill in the gaps, and interpret a narrative within the image in order to explore the act of looking and the roles of viewer and ‘voyeur’ in her work. Using this idea of the viewer as voyeur Jodie looks at how this act of looking can be invested with a power which is uncomfortable, even dangerous, but ultimately enjoyable.

By crossing disciplines and creating spaces a viewer can enter Jodie aims to create a greater engagement with the image, contrasting the way we may engage with images on the daily. She tells us; “Bombarded with imagery on social media I question whether we actually take time to look at an image, my work seeks to make an individual once again look, really look, and engage creating their own response”.

Since graduating with a Masters in Fine Art (2016) her work has been selected for shows across the United Kingdom. Recently, she has exhibited at Woolwich Contemporary Print fair (2021/2022), was shortlisted for the Great British art prize in association with Artists and Illustrators Magazine exhibiting at the OXO gallery (2022), was part of START.ART Fair London at Saatchi Gallery (2022), and was part of the Royal Academy Summer exhibition 2021. She is a member of the UKNA, selected for a solo show at OUTPOST gallery in Norwich 2019, and awarded an associate member of the RBSA in Birmingham 2022.

Her passion for printmaking started during her BA in Fine Art, it was here that she began to experiment with what print can be taking it off the flat page and into the space it exhibits within. During her Masters, this enthusiasm for print developed further focusing solely on creating her own print techniques to produce unusual pieces for exhibition. This enthusiasm sees Jodie’s work as a print technician part time at Birmingham City University, as well as helping to set up Holyhead Print Studios at Coventry which she is a director of.

Today, Jodie works on her own projects focusing on Mokulito Printmaking as well as developing her continued interest in pushing print boundaries. With a keen interest in documenting the details, rather than providing the viewer with the full picture, Jodie’s Mokulito prints looks at the subtle clues our gestures can reveal and how these can be read. She states; “The hands have often been considered visual signs to others about what we may be feeling at that particular moment in time. However, the narrative is left to the viewer to decipher. What a particular gesture reveals is left open to question, asking whether what is revealed refers to a universal language we all come to understand and be able to read or is based more on our subjective experiences.”

She also works on commissions, and is currently creating a new piece for public display at Solihull Library, Birmingham, West Midlands. She is featured in ARTSEEN magazine Issue 7, 2023, after receiving The curator’s Salon Prize at Woolwich Print fair from curator Git Joshi.

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