Joanne Maria O'rourke
Fine Art MA
Norwich University of the Arts
Graduates: 2026
Specialisms: Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Printmaking / Fine Art
My location: Norwich, United Kingdom
Joanne Maria O'rourke
First Name: Joanne Maria
Last Name: O'rourke
University / College: Norwich University of the Arts
Course / Program: Fine Art MA
Graduates: 2026
Specialisms: Textile Innovation/Textile Art / Printmaking / Fine Art
My Location: Norwich, United Kingdom
About
Joanne O'Rourke is a 2026 MA Fine Art graduate whose multidisciplinary practice explores landscape, material and processes of transformation. Working across monoprint, screenprint, painting, photography, textiles and installation, her work develops through experimentation with colour, surface and process.Her practice is concerned with trace, fragmentation and repetition. Through print and cloth, she works with pressure, transfer, layering and movement, allowing images and materials to change through the process of making.Her background in textile design continues to inform her relationship with surface, colour and material, while her Fine Art practice has expanded these interests through abstraction, scale and installation.
UNFOLDING explores how an embodied encounter with landscape changes as it is translated from experience into image, material and space.“Developed through repeated encounters with the Norfolk marsh landscape at Cley and Salthouse.” Developed through repeated encounters with the cley marsh landscape, photography is used to frame partial views rather than simply document place. These fragments are translated through monoprinting, screenprinting, cloth and installation, where processes of pressure, transfer, repetition, layering and erasure allow the image to shift, disappear and re-emerge. Incomplete impressions, residual marks and folds are retained as evidence of transformation rather than treated as imperfections. Apertures interrupt the image, exploring the limits of seeing and suggesting windows, ruptures or thresholds into another spatial register. As the work moves from paper to cloth and from surface into installation, gravity, movement and the viewer's body become part of the encounter. UNFOLDING asks what is retained, altered or lost when an experience of landscape passes through different materials and processes, and how these transformations might offer
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