Newsprint on canvas, acrylic and paint marker, 40x50x2cm
About
Joy Martindale is a visual artist and artist educator based in the UK. Her work is held in private collections, and since graduating with a Masters from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2004, she has exhibited in Germany and the UK. To support her artistic growth and painting practice Joy is studying on the Turps Correspondence Course for the fifth consecutive year.
Joy has a studio-based practice, and working with paint and employing collage, she strives to make abstract works that are full of vitality and expression, and have affective impact. Joy loves painting, writing, tracing, cutting out and collaging equally, and feels she can go back and forth between these different approaches to create surprising events and dialogues that she could not have achieved through painting alone.
Artist’s Statement
“[Joy’s paintings are] giving me something that is not cemented in the knowingness of the world, but in my enquiring about it. They are not telling me what I know but are journeying with my thoughts, making the invisible possible.”
Andrea Medjesi-Jones, guest mentor review on the Turps Correspondence Course (2021)
Associative, intuitive and always playful, the paintings, made through a process of documented thinking, construction and collage, are manifestations of reflections on life and the imagination. Using text, imagery, repetition and motif, situations and scenarios can begin with words or images: as, for example, written notes, transcriptions of a conversation, or a saved newspaper story or page, or as notations in paint of moments of reflection, expression, experiment or catharsis. Their potential to make their arguments as paintings is then tested, as ideas, thoughts, gestures, and gathered source material are woven together into dialogue. Decisions are influenced by daily shifts in perspective, mood and energy.
Joy Martindale (2025)
EXHIBITIONS
21st-22nd June 2025, SPLIT 3, Group Show, Candid Arts Trust, Angel, London, EC1V 1HQ
26th April – 7th June 2025, Split 2, Group Show, Dispensary, 114-116 The Standish Centre, Cross Street, Wigan, WN6 OHQ
1st March – 6th April 2025 Split + Us/Together, Dispensary Gallery, Former Asda, Island Green Shopping Park Hill St, Wrexham, LL13 7LW
13th Jan – 4th April 2025 Beep Painting Biennial 2024 at Aberystwyth School of Art
09/11/2024 – 21/12/2024 Beep Painting Biennial 2024 at Elysium gallery, Swansea, Wales
19th-24th Sept 2023 Do Not Swallow, Group Show, Safehouse 1 & 2 139 Copeland Road, Peckham, SE15 3SN
2nd-16th Sept 2023 Under Their Skin, Group Show, One Paved Court, London
15th-20th Nov 2022 Material Presence, Group Show, Fitzrovia Gallery, London
29th July – 10th Sept 2022 BEEP Painting Biennial 2022, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales
16th Mar – 8th May 2022 Nice To Meet You/Som Rado Hoij Tumen Spindzardom, Turner Contemporary, Margate
Jan 2022 In Formation, Group Show, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London
Nov 2021 The Lazy Fox Jumps Quickly Over The Brown Fence, Art.Cohort Group Show
31st Aug- 5th Sept 2021 In Response, Group Show, The Nunnery, Bow, London
29th Feb-19 Apr 2020 Trailblazers, Walmer Castle, Kent
21st-23rd Jan 2020 Savage 2020 Exhibition, St Pancras Crypt, London
Dec 2019 Juried Group Show, Derek’s Room, Studio 3 Gallery, University of Kent
18th-28th Oct 2019 Lilacs In Bloom, Platforma 5 Festival, Jarman Building, University of Kent
16th-23rd Feb 2019 Lilacs In Bloom, My Gallery, Dover Smart Project
Oct 2018 Women Space, Desperate Artwives Group Show, London
6th-21 Oct 2018 Group Show, Wells Contemporary 2018
8th -22nd Oct 2016 Group Show, Wells Contemporary 2016
Aug –Sept 2015 Solo Show, Pop Up Gallery, Deal, Kent
16th -22nd Jun 2015 Exhibition of Works, Margate Harbour Arm Gallery, Kent
2014 Solo Show, 13 Coppin Street Gallery, Deal, Kent
2012 Group Show, Otto Steidle Ateliers, Munich
2010 Universal Atlas, Collaborative-Touring Project
2010/9/8/7 Open Studios, Streatham Artists, ASC Studios, London
AWARDS
March 2025 Sane Award
Dec 2023 Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust
May 2023 Sane Award
May 2023 Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant Funding Award for Mother Trees Connect the Forest (a participatory community art project)
Sept 2021 Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant Funding Award for Nice To Meet You/Som Rado Hoij Tumen Spindzardom (a participatory community art project)
Oct 2020 Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant Funding Award for The Liberating Gesture (Research and Development project)
Oct 2019 National Lottery Heritage Funding for Walmer Castle Art Project (part of English Heritage’s Re-Discovering Walmer’s Lost Pleasure Grounds Project)
Oct 2019 Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant Funding Award for Walmer Castle Art Project (part of English Heritage’s Re-Discovering Walmer’s Lost Pleasure Grounds Project)
Jan 2019 Dover Town Council Project Grant Funding Award for Lilacs In Bloom (Anti-Slavery Refugee Art Project)
Oct 2018 Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant Funding Award for Lilacs In Bloom (Anti-Slavery Refugee Art Project)
PUBLISHED WORK
2021 Savage Magazine Issue 13 (Cover Art) http://www.savageonline.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Savage-13-v.4.pdf
2020 Savage Magazine Issue 12 http://www.savageonline.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Savage-Issue-12-v.4.pdf
2017 The Burden of My Anxieties, Made In Plymouth magazine
http://madeinplymouth.co.uk/project/the-burden-of-my-anxieties/
INTERVIEWS
2017 March 17th, 2017, Interview with Mira Tudor, Founder of The Art Dive
EDUCATION
2024-2025 Turps Correspondence Course
2023-2024 Turps Correspondence Course
2022-2023 Turps Correspondence Course
2021-2022 Turps Correspondence Course
2020-2021 Turps Correspondence Course
2005-2006 PGCE (Post-Compulsory) Art and Design, Institute of Education
2002-2004 MFA Fine Art (Painting), Slade School of Fine Art
1998-2002 1st Class BA (Hons) Fine Art, University of East London
1997-1998 Foundation Diploma Art and Design, Falmouth University
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
17/11/2016 Completed Arts Award Bronze & Silver adviser training
Joy martindale 
I love your work. It reminds me of Rick Astley.