ABOUT ME

Joanne White is a multidisciplinary artist exploring themes of memory, perception and transformation.

Joanne’s work is rooted in process and material. With analogue photography, she treats each medium as an active participant in the work rather than a neutral tool. Each film type offers a unique colour palette, and paired with different cameras, results are diverse and creative: expired film brings unpredictable shifts in colour and pronounced grain; her Holgas (plastic cameras) offer a unique aesthetic, evoking an atmospheric sense of place, more like a memory recalled; and her Belair 6 x12 double exposures (in-camera) layer impossible landscapes. Experimentation, embracing imperfections and accidental discoveries are key to Joanne’s practice.

The focus of Joanne’s drawings and paintings is mainly figurative. She enjoys life drawing, with the practice and challenge of drawing the figure, but 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 in her photography practice have influenced a shift in her painting colour palette to less realistic tones and a more playful and abstract approach to colour.

Joanne is graduate of Capilano College’s Studio Arts Program, Canada. Her work has been exhibited internationally in group exhibits in Canada, US and Scotland. Publications showcasing her work include PhotoEd Magazine, Black & White Photography, and several Zines. Awards and accolades include Honourable Mentions in the 26th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (2025), and winning Bronze in Analog Sparks, International Analog Photography Contest (2024). And she volunteered as co-creator and co-producer of the C41 Coffee Film Photo Contest, Seasons 1–3.

Joanne lives and works in North Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026
Gallery 881 ANOTHER ROOM: Salon des Refusés, Vancouver

2025
The Glasgow Gallery of Photography (Glasgow, UK): Analogue
The Glasgow Gallery of Photography (Glasgow, UK): Women in Photography
Federation Gallery (Vancouver, CND): Limitless
The Glasgow Gallery of Photography (Glasgow, UK): Landscape

2024
A Smith Gallery (Texas, USA): “open | unmoored”, juried by Debra Klomp Ching
The Glasgow Gallery of Photography (Glasgow, UK): Analogue
Federation Gallery (Vancouver, CND): On the Edge
Welch Street Studios, Group Exhibit (North Vancouver, Canada): True Colours

2023
Harmony Arts Festival (West Vancouver, CND) Group Exhibit

2021
James May Gallery (Wisconsin, USA): Art of Water V

2018
Il Centro Italian Cultural Centre (Vancouver, CND): Venus Rising: Drawings and Paintings
Hot One Inch Action (Vancouver, CND): One-night show of Button Art

2017
Simply Drawing (North Vancouver, CND): Life Drawing Annual Show

2016
Simply Drawing (North Vancouver, CND): Life Drawing Annual Show

2015
Harmony Arts Festival, Group Exhibition (Vancouver, CND): Harmony + Discord
Whistler Arts Council, Group Exhibit (Whistler, CND): From Here to There, a Progression in Art
Whistler Arts Council (Whistler, CND): Whistler ArtWalk
Simply Drawing (North Vancouver, CND): Life Drawing Annual Show

2010
North Vancouver Arts Council (North Vancouver, CND): Anonymous Show
Art Gallery of Victoria (Victoria, CND): Moss Street Paint-In
Hot One Inch Action (Vancouver, CND): One-night show of Button Art

2003
OpenAir Gallery & Studio (Vancouver, CND): Pintura, Artist in Residence Exhibit

2000
Fire Hall Theatre (Vancouver, CND): Lobby Exhibit

1994
Capilano College (North Vancouver, CND): Studio Arts Grad Show

ACCOLADES

Black & White Photography Magazine, 2025 Contest Winner: Pinhole/Plastic Camera

FANS Grant Recipient: Artistic Production. Awarded by the Funds for the Arts on the North Shore, 2025

Analog Sparks, International Analog Film Photography Awards: Honourable Mentions, 2025

International Photography Award (IPA): Official Selection, 2025

26th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards: Honourable Mentions, 2025

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

International Photography Award (IPA): Official Selection, 2024

International Photography Award (IPA): Honorable Mention, 2023

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

FANS Grant Recipient: Artistic Production. Awarded by the Funds for the Arts on the North Shore, 2016

PUBLICATIONS

Black & White Photography Magazine, April 2026, Issue 177

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

Women in Photography Exhibit Catalogue, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, 2025
Landscape Exhibit Catalogue, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, 2025
“open | unmoored” Exhibit Catalogue, A Smith Gallery, Photographic Arts, 2024
“On the Edge” Exhibit Catalogue, Federation Gallery, Granville Island, Vancouver, 2024

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

Professional Skills Development for Fine Artists, Debra Klompching

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