Jo Dennis is a graduate of the 2022 MA Painting program at the Royal College of Art, London, and previously graduated from the BA Fine Art and Contemporary Theory course at Goldsmiths College (2002). She co-founded Asylum and Maverick Projects which are artist-run spaces in South East London. She is the director of Peckham 24, an annual photography festival and she co-curates Pigeon Park, a large scale annual exhibition program held in Walworth, London.

Recent exhibitions include her solo shows ‘Autonomous Zone,’ and ‘A Kind of Solid Liquid,’ both at Sid Motion Gallery, London, and a group show ‘God of War’ with OHSH Projects, London. In 2020, she self-published her artist’s book I touched this with my hand, I touched that with my eye accompanied with an essay by the British writer and curator, David Campany. 

Jo Dennis employs diverse aesthetic strategies and mediums including installation, assemblage, painting, found objects and photography. The works relate to ideas of home, shelter, memory and mortality. Found objects and waste items are used as catalysts to explore our emotional connection to places, the transformation of surfaces and objects and how this relates to temporality. A great part of her focus is on the role paint plays in these spaces and processes, and how this surface materiality and texture conveys the passing of time. Dennis amplifies the sensibilities embodied in these structures, remnants and residual materials in paint.