joanne mulcahy-zubani

  Joanne’s early artistic career started as a popular Sydney performance artist and poet. After attending The National Art School, she began to exhibit her quirky artworks.

Joanne has since obtained sought after artist residencies; been a finalist in several renowned art prizes; won place in two leading sustainable art prizes; and been gifted an award in Tuscany, Italy for her etchings on recycled white goods. 

Her sustainable sculptures and life drawings are sold privately, exhibited in national and international galleries and marketed online. 

She now resides in the Northern Rivers where she also continues her work as an educator for TAFE NSW and Community Colleges.

  I am an animist; I harbour an obsession with junk. Image making is both a pathway to my inner workings, and an ephemeral appreciation of the simple splendour I see in an oxidised piece of metal; weathered paper or broken wood. I can be inspired by anything, however I have been working consistently with oxidised metal for over a decade.

I grind, cut and augment my treasures, paint, collage or draw onto them to enhance the narrative that time originally created.

  I absorb the world around me, it's beautiful ugliness and the desires and vulnerabilities of its people.

Through the up-cycling of discarded materials I aim to reduce carbon footprint and at the same time contribute to the survival of 'culture' in a tangible material way.

My work highlights the needless waste I see in our society; the price of vanity (Not My Bag Exhibition); the decline in culture and community (Woe Betide Series), and the subsequent effects on the environment (I Harbour An Obsession Lansdcape Exhibition) and our psychological wellbeing.