Jo Frederiks is a passionate animal rights advocate, speaking through her art to create powerful social statements. She is an award-winning, full-time practising artist, currently working towards her next exhibition exposing the well-hidden plight of helpless victims we belittle as 'livestock.' Frederiks draws on her experiences growing up on her father's million-acre cattle station in central Queensland, Australia. Working in varying mediums, Frederiks favours graphite and oil paint. She previously studied at The Arts Academy in Brisbane, graduating with Honours. She has had many solo, joint and group exhibitions throughout the years. Her work has been displayed in the USA, the UK, Ukraine, Italy, Russia, Germany, Israel, and Australia. And her images are now popular as powerful placards in animal rights protests across the globe. Frederiks is most known for the ground-breaking 'Animal Holocaust' exhibition - a vast body of work comprising 50 major paintings and approx. 150 works on paper; a project which she continues to develop and expand. She featured in the popular TV series Colour In Your Life, which brought animal rights art to mainstream media and aired in many countries around the world. Although Frederiks's art is controversial, the works are sensitive, exquisite and beautifully detailed, highlighting the unique character of each individual or, on the other hand, to depict their deliberately well-hidden fate.