2012-
Moorfields Arts Committee
1990-
Ongoing professional practice as visual artist
2008-
Workshops for Visually impaired visitors to The Wallace Collection
2000-2010
Chair - Artists at Home
2005-2008
Mentor to Disabled Artists
2003-2005
London Print Studio
2003-2005
MA at University of Brighton
1986-2006
Development Director/Consultant to Sadler's Wells, Rio Tinto, Spanish Arts Festival etc.
1969-1985
Director: St John's Smith Square
As well as exhibiting at galleries, Joanna Brendon holds an Open Studio once a year as part of Artists at Home, of which she was Chair and Co-ordinator from 2000-2010. http://www.artistsathome.net
For the past few years, she has also held one in December - 4 Christmas, which she shares with three other artists.
Her main body of work is landscape-based, but she has also produced a series of conceptual prints, exploring the theme of vision, as a means of confronting her own visual impairment. Three pieces from this series are in the permanent print collection at the V&A Museum and six works were displayed in the Saatchi Gallery in 2010. One print, Just Looking has been created for the benefit of Moorfields Eye Hospital.
In 2007, she was Artist in Residence at Brantwood, John Ruskin's home in Cumbria. This proved a fruitful period and led to a solo exhibition there the following year.
In October 2011, she had a solo exhibition at the Holywell Music Rooms in Oxford, being the featured visual artist to mark the 10th Anniversary of the Oxford Lieder Festival.
Prior to her commitment as a full-time painter, Joanna Brendon was founder-director of the concert hall, St John's Smith Square. As well as concerts, she has presented poetry readings and exhibitions and has been deeply involved in fund-raising for the arts and other charitable causes. She is a committed member of the Development Board of Interact Reading Service - http://www.interactreading.org . She also runs occasions workshops for visually imapired visitors to The Wallace Collection
