Joanne Reid

Working primarily in sculpture, Joanne Reid’s often intuitively responds to materials, objects and spaces that form our built environment. Her work includes references to architectural forms, materials of construction sites, craft and labour, and the history of art. Reid’s material vocabulary draws primarily from the urban environment and construction sites, often using steel, plywood, timber, plaster and concrete in her practice. The tools, structures, signage and debris that Reid photographs at these sites, is an ongoing source for her work. Reid is interested in our desire to reproduce the natural world and the history of ornament in architecture and is drawn to architectural and decorative features and motifs and art histrocial traditions such as the still life.

Joanne Reid lives and works in Ireland and studied at the Institute of Art, Design + Technology, Dublin. Select exhibitions include Residues of The Garden of Eden, The Complex, Dublin, 2025; Thresholds to the Unseen, Solstice Arts Centre, Co Meath, 2024; Sample Set, Open Studio, Studio 1, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 2023; Home Bodies, Glandwr, Chapelizod, Dublin, 2021; ARTWORKS: Dearly Beloved, Visual Carlow, 2019; Futures, Series 3, Episode 2, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 2018. Select awards include the Draíocht Artist Studio Residency Award 2024; Fingal and RHA Studio Award, 2021; Basic Space Artist Residency Award, 2016.