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Jo Boddy Printmaker

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I am a printmaker based on the Surrey/Berkshire border, exploring our relationship with landscape in the Anthropocene.  Living in a country where human activity has shaped almost every square mile, I am interested in how assumptions of ownership, control and access are embedded in our attitudes towards land.

   

My work invites viewers to reconsider their position within the landscape by imagining alternative points of view and question what it feels like to be in a landscape that is not ours.  I explore how a fuller understanding of place can emerge when human and ecological histories and processes are considered together.

   

I begin with my own connection to place developed through walking, sketching, and occasionally printing in the landscape, alongside secondary research. In the studio, I use a range of printmaking techniques to develop images as part of an ongoing process of enquiry. I am particularly drawn to the ways different printmaking processes generate a range of marks and textures that echo the complexity of the landscape itself and therefore employ a range of printmaking techniques. Alongside editioned prints, I also create large, site-specific collaged works incorporating stitch as well as print.

   

My aim is not to present an idealised version of nature, or a human arcadia, but to make visible the multifaceted, more-than-human character of place and to unsettle the idea that humans are central within it.

   

You can watch a 5 minute film about my practice.  

This was made for the final unit of MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in spring 2024.

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I featured in the March 2026 Handprinted 'Meet the Maker' blog.

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Awards

​2025

UAL/Clifford ​Chance Sculpture Award 2025 Winner 

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2024

One of UAL's 'Future 50 Founders and Freelancers' 2024

UAL Graduate Award Nominee - Post Graduate Show, Central Saint Martins 

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2021

Lucie Green Printmakers Prize - Southbank Printmakers Mini Print Competition, London

Testimonials 

"The print perfectly captures what it feels like in the forest"

Darren

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"You can tell you love that forest as much as I do!"

Heather

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​"I love that Jo's work is like having the forest that I love so much on my walls as well as on my doorstep"

Claire

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"Once again you have captured the soul of Swinley"

Dan​​

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