ABOUT ME

Joanne White is an artist and 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, and she 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 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.

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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GROUP EXHIBITIONS

PHOTOGRAPHY

2025
The Glasgow Gallery of Photography (Glasgow, UK): Women in Photography
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

PAINTING + DRAWING

2025
Federation Gallery (Vancouver, CND): Limitless

2024
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

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

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

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