Dr. Natasha Kidd is an artist predominantly known for her automated paintings systems. Situated within the expanded field of painting, her machines emerge out of a desire to make visible the process, action and event of painting itself, and to place the viewer directly inside the production of painting.
Jo Addison is an artist making objects in which a familiar world is disclosed through the reinterpretation of everyday objects and motifs. Her work draws on the crossovers between individual recollection and shared cultural memories. Jo is particularly interested in the synthesis of making and learning. Alongside her studio practice, she has always worked within education, in both museum and higher education sectors. Jo is a founding member of A Particular Reality, and Material, Pedagogy, Future.
Through performance events designed to stage the act of learning beyond the constraints of academia, Jo's long-term collaborative research with Natasha Kidd explores learning as form. Jo lives and works in London.