Professor of Printmaking at the Royal College of Art since 2008, Jo Stockham was educated at Hertfordshire College of Art & Design, Falmouth School of Art, and Chelsea School of Art. She was Kettle’s Yard/Henry Moore Fellow at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge in 1989, which led to solo shows at Kettle’s Yard and Camden Arts Centre. Other residencies include The Mead Gallery University of Warwick, ‘Kunstbrucke’ residency Berlin and a Yaddo Fellowship in New York. Commissions for public works include a permanent site specific sculpture for LIPA Liverpool (with Darrel Viner), and contributions to “Triplicate” shown at Tate St Ives, Southampton and Eastbourne City Art Galleries. A lottery funded commission “If Not Now, When?” in Dilston Grove 1999 resulted in an installation and catalogue for Café Gallery Projects London.She is currently exploring the impact of digital technologies on our senses of embodiment, materiality and memory.

Jo has also exhibited widely in group exhibitions in the UK and internationally, including shows in New York, Berlin, Trier and Hannover. She has won the Neville Burston Trust award, the Conder Group sculpture prize at the Whitechapel Open, and has work in the Arts Council of England, New Hall College, Kettle’s Yard Collections in the UK and various private collections internationally.

Along with her fine art practice, Jo is a respected educator, having taught on many fine art courses throughout London (principally at Chelsea and Goldsmiths ) and across the UK, as well as in Weimar, Leipzig and Berlin. She has also undertaken educational work for major galleries including the Tate, Whitechapel and Serpentine Galleries and been resident in several schools.