ABOUT ME

Joanne White is an artist and creative photographer based in North Vancouver. Her work explores themes of memory, connection and transformation.

Joanne’s interest in photography is primarily analogue / film photography, with expired and experimental films, double exposures and transformative processes like Polaroid Emulsion Lifts. Through these creative processes, she challenges traditional image-making and the original state of a photograph, reinterpreting the moment and presenting memories in new forms.

The focus of Joanne’s drawings and paintings is mainly figurative. She especially enjoys life drawing, with the practice and challenge of drawing the figure. Most recently she’s drawn dancers, with the added challenge of constant movement and flow. Her drawings often become studies, inspiring new works and explorations in other media. Expired and experimental films have influenced a shift in her painting colour palette to less realistic tones and a more playful and abstract approach to colour.

A graduate of Capilano College’s Studio Arts Program, Joanne has exhibited locally and internationally in group exhibits, been published in print magazines and several zines, and her analogue photography’s garnered recognition, including awards and honourable mentions, in international contests. She volunteered as co-creator and co-producer of the C41 Coffee Film Photo Contest, Seasons 1–3.  
 

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EXHIBITIONS

2025 – Women in Photography, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography

2025 – Landscape, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography

2024 – “open | unmoored”, A Smith Gallery (juried by Debra Klomp Ching)

2024 – Analogue, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography

2024 – On the Edge, Federation Gallery

2024 – True Colours, Welch Street Studios Group Exhibit

2023 – Harmony Arts Group Exhibit, Harmony Arts Festival

2021 – Art of Water V, James May Gallery

2018 – Hot One Inch Action. One-night show of Button Art, Vancouver

2018 – Venus Rising: Drawings and Paintings, Il Centro Italian Cultural Centre, Vancouver

2017 – Simply Drawing, Life Drawing Annual Show (participated since 2015)

2015 – Harmony + Discord: Group Exhibition, Harmony Arts Festival

2015 – From Here to There, a Progression in Art. Whistler Arts Council Group Exhibit

2015 – Whistler ArtWalk. Whistler Arts Council juried summer event

2010 – Anonymous Show, North Vancouver Arts Council’s lightly juried annual fundraiser

2008 – Moss Street Paint-In. Art Gallery of Victoria’s annual outdoor event

2008 – Hot One Inch Action. One-night show of Button Art

2003 – Pintura, Artist in Residence

2003 – Pintura Exhibit, OpenAir Gallery & Studio

2000 – Fire Hall Lobby Exhibit, Fire Hall Theatre

1994 – Studio Arts Grad Show, Capilano College, Vancouver

ACCOLADES

2025 International Photography Award (IPA)
Official Selection (Non-Professional)
Categories: Analog / Film: Nature & Fine Art

2025 Julia Margaret Cameron Awards
Official Selection (Non-Professional)
Categories: Architecture, Landscapes & Seascapes & Street Photography

2024 Analog Sparks, International Analog Film Photography Awards
Bronze Winner & Honourable Mention

2024 International Photography Award (IPA)
Official Selection (Non-Professional)
Categories: Analog / Film-Landscape

2023 International Photography Award (IPA)
Official Selection (Non-Professional) & Awarded Honorable Mention
Category: Analog / Film-Portrait

2018–2019 West Vancouver Utility Box Art Wrap Program
Photograph selected by the District of West Vancouver 

2016 FANS Grant Recipient — Artistic Production
Awarded by the Funds for the Arts on the North Shore

PUBLICATIONS

PhotoED Magazine, Winter 2024–25: COLOUR Issue (Digital Extra Edition)

PhotoED Magazine, Winter 2023–24: The LAND Issue (Print + Digital Issue)

Pique Newsmagazine, May, 2005: Cover illustration

The Lyre, Volume 10, 1994: Featured Figure Drawings
Capilano College’s journal of contemporary literature and arts

CATALOGUES

2025 – Women in Photography Exhibit Catalogue, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography

2025 – Landscape Exhibit Catalogue, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography

2024 – “open | unmoored” Exhibit Catalogue, A Smith Gallery, Photographic Arts 

2024 – “On the Edge” Exhibit Catalogue, Federation Gallery, Granville Island, Vancouver

ZINES

Plastic Perspective, A Holga Zine
Issue 7, Fall 2024
Issue 6, Spring 2023
Issue 5, Fall 2023
Issue 4, Spring 2023
Issue 3, Fall 2022

Latente, An Analogue Photography Fanzine
Issue 5, Spring 2024
Issue 4, Fall 2024
Issue 3, Spring 2024
Issue 1, Spring 2023

SELF-PUBLISHED

100 Days of Ocean – My 100 Day Art Challenge, in book form, available on Blurb

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Cristina de Middel: Stranger than Reality. Magnum online photography course  

Seeing Through Photographs. MoMA online certificate course

Painting the Figure & Portrait, with Justin Ogilvie. Whistler Art on the Lake Workshop

Expressive Acrylics, with Suzanne Norscott. Whistler Art on the Lake Workshop

Drawing, Mixed Media Painting Techniques. Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver

Textile Printing. Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design, Vancouver

Basic Photography. Langara College, Vancouver

EDUCATION

 Studio Art Diploma, 1994. Capilano College, Vancouver

1st Year Foundation & Textile Design, 1991.
Ruth Prowse Art School, Cape Town, South Africa 

Graduated High School, 1989, Fish Hoek Senior High, Cape Town
– with 2nd Art Subject off-site 1988-89. Textile Design, Frank Joubert Art Centre