Joshua Webb is an Australian born visual artist (1981), who has exhibited across Australia, the USA and Europe. His artistic practice has been in parallel to his academic pursuits; BFA, Curtin University, Australia, MFA – Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design, USA, and his experience working as an industrial … Read More
Joshua Webb is an Australian born visual artist (1981), who has exhibited across Australia, the USA and Europe. His artistic practice has been in parallel to his academic pursuits; BFA, Curtin University, Australia, MFA – Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design, USA, and his experience working as an industrial designer for a select group of prototype engineering or technology firms. Webb’s practice to date explores the oscillating frontiers of an unknowable thesis in relation to art. The work reflects an ongoing philosophical expedition that transverse a wide selection of meta-data sourced from history, language, culture, politics, technology and capital. With each artistic endeavour Webb embodies theory as form, the resulting sculptural and filmic containers left behind become the debris of an endless philosophical negation.
He has received a number of grants and awards, most notably a Galerie Dusseldorf Scholarship in 2006, an Arts WA fellowship in 2007, the Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships and secondary scholarship in 2008/09 and the Department of Culture and the Arts: Young People and the Arts International Scholarship 2009 and most recently the Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Studies Grant, 2010 – selected by curator Susan Cross, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston & MASS MoCA, USA. Solo exhibition include the scheduled 2011 show at Galerie Dusseldorf and previous shows; New Violence – Australia (2008) at Galerie Dusseldorf, Australia and New Violence – Prague (2008) at the Meet Factory Gallery, Czech Republic. Notable group shows include Brand New Bag (2010) at Recess INC. Gallery, Soho, NYC, USA, FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR (2010) at the Gelman Gallery, RI, USA, PYT: Pretty Young Thing (2009) at the Sol Koffler Gallery, RI, USA, HIJACKED (2008) Australian Centre for Photography, NSW, AUST, New Disorder (2007) at the Ice Cream Factory, Perth, AUST , and BECKON (2006) Perth Institute of Contemporary Art. Read Less
