About
Joan Murray

About Joan Murray

Joan Murray lives and works in East Anglia, England, where she has a studio at her home in Lowestoft, the most easterly town in Britain. Joan explores her chosen themes through a wide variety of materials. Her artistic practice includes drawing and ceramics. Using the images of cartography, her recent map drawings make reference to the way we record and inhabit our built environment.

Joan has recently had drawings from her Map series selected for the Kettle’s Yard Open 2006, Cambridge, and the Mapping exhibition at Bury Art Gallery, Museum + Archives, Bury, Lancashire.

Her ceramic work has been exhibited in London and widely in East Anglia. She exhibits annually at Aldeburgh with the Suffolk Craft Society. Joan’s clay stamp has been in use since 1986 and can be found illustrated in British Studio Potters’ Marks, compiled by Eric Yates-Owen And Robert Fournier, A & C Black. 1998. Her ceramic work and working methods are described and illustrated in The Art of Hand Built Ceramics by Susan Bruce, The Crow Press, 2000.

Joan continues to divide her time between her own work and part-time lecturing at Lowestoft College. She has been responsible for organising community workshops, summer schools and public exhibitions. Within InPrint she is presently collaborating with Rupert Mallin and Tonia Jillings on a Coastal project.