Jo teaches in the outback and has taken up kayaking. She photographs the banks of the Warrego with a GoPro. Jo is interested in all aspects of portraiture and landscape. Jo's recent exhibition was called Communities Coming Together. She writes and illustrates travel articles and is working towards the River Lights Festival in April 2024 and a solo exhibition in September.
Jo is an artist heading from teaching Art, English and History into a retirement filled with photography, painting, digital art, animation and writing. Travel writing has become Jo's passion because she can combine writing from within an approach often called transmedia as she tours the outback. Red is the colour of the outback of Australia. Red dirt, red sky and red, hot heat are assuaged by the hot springs that dot the countryside. Jo contrasts this aridness with the lushness of her holiday writing retreat in Golden Beach, Qld. AU. A Master of Education (The Arts) will be combined with a Master of Applied Linguistics, enabling a transmedia project called Te Te Trashes the School to Prison Pipeline. This is a long-term ongoing project that provides stimulus for regular exhibitions. Red was a fortunate theme for Jo because red is definitely the colour of Australia's outback, often called the Red Centre. Jo has taught in a variety of settings, including TAFE Colleges, Universities, and schools, both public and private. Her time spent teaching Indigenous students in a variety of prison settings has informed her approach to education and to the way she designs language approaches that account for linguistic and dialectic differences within the cohorts she teaches and writes for. You will see two portraits included because the refer to the elders of the small community where Jo teaches.