https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/04/photography-against-the-end-of-history-photography-exhibition-working-class

After the End of History: British Working Class Photography 1989 – 2024. explores life through the lenses of working class artists, who have not only turned their gaze to their own communities, but also out towards the wider world. The result is a breadth of photographic work that not only celebrates contemporary working class life, championing its diversity and beauty, but also challenges perceptions of it, whilst offering a counterintuitive picture of our broader landscape. I’m really excited to be part of this work visualising working class photographers through the working class perspective. Touring across the UK. https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/touring-programme/hayward-gallery-touring/exhibitions/after-end-history-british-working-class-photography-1989-2024

T H E M I D D L E O F S O M E W H E R E

Rural places are often seen as ‘idyllic’ or ‘remote’. Places that are often seeing the effects of climate first hand. What does this mean for young people who live here? Who can afford to live there? The middle of somewhere is a collaborative work using photography, sound, video and installation to tell a different story around class, climate, the cost of living and the countryside. I’ve been making work in Orkney, and the North East Yorkshire Dales. If you are effected by any of the above I would love to chat to you too. For now I am making work in those two areas but I will be opening this out from summer 2024. This work is made possible by the generous support of the The Vasseur Baltic Artists' Award and will be display May 10th - November 17th at The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead.

More information available here: https://baltic.art/whats-on/0P-joanne-coates-the-vasseur-baltic-artists-award/

If you would like to take part. You can contact me on hello@joannecoates.co.uk

I was asked to write about artist place making for lush Art Network North East. You can read my response here >>> https://anne.art/artists-make-places-joanne-coates/

I’ve had work acquired and now in the collection of Middlesbrough Museum of Modern Art. Liznojan was the project where I found my voice, visually. I walked along point of class conflict from the North West to the North East of England. It was my final project at University, London College of Communication. The work was completed in 2015 and began in 2013. It was an honour to revisit this work. It is where I realised I was able to make work about my rural roots and home. A body of work that enabled me to know it was ok to move home after University. A massive thank you to MIMA, one of my all time favourite collections!

I was invited by MIMA to accompany several artists down to Boulby’s underground laboratory. Images from the trips alongside some reflections can be seen in the newest issue of MIMA zine. (Click on the image to have a read.)

Review of People Powered in Corridor 8 https://corridor8.co.uk/article/people-powered-stories-from-the-river-tees/

I currently have from the series ‘Herdship’ on display at Middlesbrough Museum of Modern Art until 22nd December 2023.
The work was commissioned by the TeesSwale programme, The Northern Pennines AONB and The Yorkshire Dales National Park.

Ingrid Hall, The Well Being Hub Wallsend, for Sabe the children, Cost of Living Heroes. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/09/cost-of-living-champions-women-battling-the-crisis

Talk recording from *Photography & Representation* with brilliant ***Amara Eno, Maryam Wahid and Ciara Leeming.***
https://www.impressions-gallery.com/resource/seminar-photography-representation/

Thank you to Geoff Harris for the mention in Amateur Photographer. Really interesting take on rural depictions. https://amateurphotographer.com/latest/opinion/why-is-so-much-landscape-photography-dishonest/?fbclid=IwAR2nN4kYp1Se5IypXcyd9jM7E2mafgJgIKnq1CIWdMT04ctteDPYCQYpluw

Big thank you to Caught by the river for the write up, https://www.caughtbytheriver.net/2023/04/the-lie-of-the-land-joanne-coates/?fbclid=IwAR0Zvt7SVEx0Yj4EbqSjZz7OuUWKeWG8jci5F6RqtL-DtzCrFHOjRIekhbM

Evocative Photos of Working Class Life in Rural England

Interview with High life North *Award-winning photographer Joanne Coates on her quiet rebellion against inequality*

G R O W & G A T H E R || A commission around the working class hidden history of allotments// Redcar palace // install photos from Millie, Beth & Joe at Redcar Palace // massive thank you to all the team for all your support.

Last week we bound zines and handed them out with a little care / thank you pack. The exhibition was in Redcar June - July 2023.

“Grow and Gather is an art exhibition presented by the Redcar Palace, which explores the theme of gardens, allotments, growing and the joy that these spaces and activities can bring. At the heart of this exhibition is a newly commissioned series of photographs by Joanne Coates which pay tribute to growers, cyclists and dog walkers at Zetland Park Allotments in Redcar and the communities that live around them.”

Thank you to James Beeighton and Beth Smith for all the support and being excited by bringing in different elements into the show. Beth and James gave me lots of freedom around curation: Vegetables in the gallery, free fruit and veg for visitors, tips from the community I worked with on life, meals, growing, Flowers from Beth’’s own allotment, using farm crates to create a show, an enclosure themed window by the artist Sarah Jarman. It was exciting to really think of the space and what we could do to bring the outside in.

I’m excited to have access to a hot desk at Newbridge Studios in Newcastle. I use a barn space as a studio working from there when I can but it is an empty dishevelled barn that in winter is unbearably cold. (It’s not a fancy barn!) What it means is I can explore working in the landscape, scale of works and how works engage with nature. If you fancy a meeting in Newcastle I can come and share work with you somewhere warmer and more accessible for most. Being a very rural artist can be hard. I’m excited to be part of Newbridge’s Collective studio programme and meet other artist’s in the region.

Itv visited us at Ormesby hall to meet some of the Sheroes I photographed and to see the work on display. Lovely feature with the amazing Zak and Christine who took part in the series.

Shazia, Photographed in her chosen location of Roseberry topping for ‘Sheroes’ A borderlands Creative people and places commission.

Farm outdoor art installation — Article and review of the outdoor art installation at Langdon Beck. Bringing work and showing it within the communities and context it was made is vital.

I am increasingly bringing my practice into the spaces I work with outdoor installations both Urban and Rural. This show at Langdon Beck was a bringing the story to the community it was set in whilst reaching tourists who visit the area.

Review of outdoor installation in the North Pennines https://www.culturednortheast.co.uk/2023/05/16/exhibition-herdship-by-joanne-coates/

BBC News Herdship https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-65582079

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/farm-photographs-go-display-landscape-2692709

A commission for Bloomberg. I went to Middlesbrough to response to crime statistics.

A focus on rural North Cumbria and higher interest rates for Bloomberg

A year in review! 2022 ‘how was it for you?’ Interview with A-n on what I have been up to. https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/2022-how-was-it-for-you-1-joanne-coates/

A beautiful film by the very talented Piotr Sell about making work in the North East of England, focusing on The Lie of the Land. https://photoworks.org.uk/jpa-joanne-coates/

Interview with the lovely NEPN https://northeastphoto.net/news/joanne-coates-interview/

Creating space for Authentic identities article on British journal of Photography https://www.1854.photography/2022/10/joanne-oates-and-heather-agyepong-create-space-for-their-authentic-identities/

Reframing. Reclaiming at The Arthouse Wakefield. Working with Hannah Starkey and making work around farm labour and gender. https://the-arthouse.org.uk/exhibitions/reframing-reclaiming/

Speaking with Ben Smith on A Small voice podcast listen here https://bensmithphoto.com/asmallvoice/joanne-coates

Editorial Photographers today showcase http://www.epuk.org/showcase/female-farmers-in-rural-britain-by-joanne-coates

Work around females labour in rural spaces with accompanying sound piece at The Art House Wakefield October 2022 - February 2023

A huge honour to be on women’s hour talking about women in Agriculture. A dream! Link HERE

Sheroes event at Ormesby Hall in Middlesbrough. https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/gallery/sheroes-teesside-celebration-event-honours-26424516

Our Country Lives exhibition at Bowlees visitor centre 2022. Working with young people in rural upper Teesdale on what it means to grow up in a space increasingly changing

A huge thank you to the BBC In Pictures team or featuring the Daughters of the Soil work on their site and homepage.

Proper honoured to have my image on the cover of this important book by Menelaos Gkartzios. An important read!

a female florist and farmer looks out towards the land. — Solo Show at The Gymnasium gallery, Berwick-Upon Tweed. Till June 5th 2022.

Talking about rurality with It’s nice that. For so long I thought artists who worked in the countryside could only be outsiders, towns folk who go in and out. Since studying I’ve always explored rurality. My final project whilst at The university of the arts in 2015 was focused on the eerie aspects of the countryside, but exploring how it feels to leave and come back (See the Liznojan project for more information.) I love Liz Gorny’s words here and she totally grasped the work. https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/joanne-coates-photography-040322

A screenshot showing an article from the BJP on Women in Farming — Really lovely to speak to the talented writer Ellie Howard about Women in farming Residency with Maltings and Newcastle University. Featured in the British Journal of Photography early 2021. https://www.1854.photography/2020/12/joanne-coates-gender-inequality-farming/

North Sea swells highlands and islands fishing industry book by Jo Coates — What an experience! I worked with Ian over at Another Place press on this zine around my series North Sea Swells. There was two print runs and both SOLD OUT! I’m overwhelmed. Thank you so much for all your continued support. It was a lovely way of getting this work around masculinity, class, fishing and rural places out there!

I finally entered Portrait of Britain for the first time. They offered reduced price and that was me able to commit. I’m so happy to be one of the winners this and have the work shown across the UK. Especially to focus on my portrait of Ian, the youngest white fish skipper in the UK. Have a look at all the winners here: https://www.1854.photography/2020/08/portrait-of-britain-2020-the-winners/

A massive thank you to mega talented writer Kerry Manders for the interview over on Women Photograph https://www.womenphotograph.com/news/2018/12/9/women-talk-joanne-coates

Really honored to be interviewed by the brilliant writer Eli over on Mere Mortal. Eli is doing brilliant work across the UK. Speaking to working class photographers and writing about images. One of my favourite interviews to date. https://meremortalmag.wixsite.com/meremortalmag/blog/joanne-coates-women-in-photography