Jo-Ann Shaw is a Sydney based photographer and artist. Her photography covers portraiture, real-estate/architecture, automotive, social-documentary, multi-scapes, landscapes and nature; exploration of the realms of identity, irony, illusion, social commentary, photo-journalism, geometry, narcissism, perception, ritual, time, style, spirituality. In other work she engages text, performance, sound, dance, installation and collaboration.
Recent bodies of her work include 2012:Back to the Future, Where We Sleep, Power Animal/Shaman series, Goddess series, Boot, Autoerotik,Once Upon A Spell, Witch Bitch, Oyster suite,and I Killed Kitty.
Jo-Ann Shaw has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney where she studied Fine Art & Photography, a Masters of Art Administration from COFA, the University of New South Wales. She also has a Diploma of Asian Art from The Art Gallery of New South Wales.
She shares a resonance with photographers Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Max Dupain, Robert Mapplethorpe, Yasumasa Morimura, Destiny Deacon, Tracey Moffatt, Garth Knight, Craigie Horsfield, Erwin Olaf,and Annie Leibovitz. Other styles that are points of reference with her work are Chinese, Japanese, Nonya, Egyptian, Greco-Roman, Viking, Gothic, French Court. Other inspirational artists include Beardsley, Dore, Degas, Munch, Rembrandt, Braques, Giacometti, Rodin, Norman Lindsey, Gaudi, Le Corbusier, Mondrian, Geoffrey Smart, Matthew Barney, Cocteau, Kurosawa, Kubrick, Wenders et al galore.
