Jo Paul creates mainly three dimensional works and installations. Often using delicate fabrics and threads as a metaphor for fragility and vulnerability, her work examines and attempts to voice the wider context of grief in a society that maintains a narrow view of its definition and a low tolerance for its expression. Where grief traditionally encompasses loss, change and endings, Jo’s work also explores the disenfranchised grief of things in life that never happened, the pain of oppression or difference, and connection or disconnection with society or the self.

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Jo completed an MA in Scenography [distinction] at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, London. Her work as an artist combines with her work in the arts sector, designing/ making for theatre and outdoor arts, community arts facilitation and coaching for arts and theatre organisations across the UK. Companies she has worked with include Battersea Arts Centre, Candoco, Diverse City/Cirque Bijou, Emergency Exit Arts, Extant, Graeae, Heart FM/ Plusnet, National Theatre, Spare Tyre, Mat Fraser and Opera by Definition to name a few. Jo also facilitates training and advises on disability equality and creative access for projects and venues.

Linked to her work ‘One for Sorrow’, Jo has co-authored a chapter in the Routledge Book ‘The Maternal in Creative Work’, edited by Marchevska and Walkerdine.

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Jo currently lives in London, continuing to work within the arts sector, with her visual arts practice and her daughter at the centre of her life.

Jo welcomes approaches from curators, galleries and potential collaborators and is available for commissions.