Jo Spence Memorial Archive Richard Saltoun Gallery, London
Exhibitions
Jo Spence: Review of Work 1950-1985, Camerawork Gallery, London, 1985. Exhibition toured by Cockpit Gallery: Dales Brewery, March - April, 1985, Ffotogallery, Cardiff, July 1985 Battersea Arts Centre, Sept 1985 Triangle Gallery, Birmingham, October 1985 The Cockpit Gallery, Holborn, London, January 1986 Phototherapy Road Show, Photographers' Gallery, 1985 Missing Persons / Damaged Lives. Jo Spence in collaboration with Rosy Martin, Ya'acov Khan, David Roberts and Tim Sheard, Leeds City Art Galleries, 1991.
Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead: Techniques of Becoming at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 16 October 2021 - 2 January 2022 Jo Spence : from Fairy Tales to Phototherapy. Photographs from the Hyman Collection, Arnolfini Bristol, (18th May 2020 - 20th June 2021) (this print)
Jo Spence: A Woman’s Place? at Belfast Exposed in Collaboration with the Centre for British Photography. 7th October 2024 – 21st December 2024
Literature
Jo Spence, Putting myself in the picture: A political, personal, and photographic autobiography, 1986 (partially illustrated on the front cover)
One of a set of rare artist-laminated exhibition panels that Jo Spence made in collaboration with Rosy Martin and Terry Dennett. The colour works from this series were made in...
One of a set of rare artist-laminated exhibition panels that Jo Spence made in collaboration with Rosy Martin and Terry Dennett. The colour works from this series were made in collaboration with Rosy Martin and the black and white work in collaboration with Terry Dennett.
Rosy Martin has written of this series of laminated panels: "The individual photos did have their own titles. Jo is using work made in photo-therapy sessions with me in another context - to tell another set of stories."
This work was originally calledTransformations (1984), a series which restaged an old family album. It shows Jo as a child.
Inscribed: image of powerlessness unhappy families? The effects of war"
These laminated panels, from 1984, build from this engagement with Cinderella and also look forward to the centrality of health issues in her later work.
We are grateful to Rosy Martin for her assistance in cataloguing this work.