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Joe Packer’s paintings could be described as invented landscapes with a psychological element. These paintings try to evoke the memory of a place whilst at the same time, having evolved through making processes that are not preplanned or prescriptive, are images that can visually function in a self -contained way, with a kind of inner life of their own. The paintings occupy a kind of hinterland between abstraction, where the brushstrokes are non-referential, and figuration, where the spaces depicted allude and relate to landscape, without being overtly descriptive.

Joe Packer won the Contemporary British Painting prize in 2018. Recent exhibitions include The Towner International at The Towner Gallery, Eastbourne,2021, Matthew Burrows Selects at Unit 1 Gallery London 2021,Human:Nature, Linden Hall Gallery Deal,2021, Circling Forces at Aleph Contemporary London,2021, ‘Dialogues’ curated by Alastair Hicks at the London Art Fair 2020, ‘Its Gonna Rain’ at Coombs Contemporary, London 2019-20,and The Contemporary British Painting Prize Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London,and Huddersfield Art Gallery, 2019. He studied painting at the Royal College of Art 1992-94 and Norwich School of Art 1989-92. He lives and works in St Leonards, East Sussex.

Website- Joepacker.blogspot.com  twitter- @joepacker17 Instagram- @joe_packer_