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First Name

Jo

Last Name

Thomas

Country

United Kingdom

City/Town/Village

Reading

Country (secondary)

Email

jo@jothomas.net

Statement

Jo is an artist, teacher and researcher based in Reading. She completed a practice based PhD in 2013 (Oxford Brookes University) entitled 'Presencing Place: an enquiry into the knowing and shaping on place through expanded art practices. She is drawn to local everyday places seeking a shift from the non–place to the rediscovery of the particular in these places. She makes gestures in place that amplify and enhance our ways of knowing and sensing. These gestures are small actions that confirm and enhance the quality of our connections with the world we are part of. Through these actions we can experience a sense of interconnectiveness in everyday places. There is a phenomenological and holistic outlook in these gestures.