Jo Boddy Printmaker


5 x 2.5m collage of prints depicting the River Thames meander around the Isle of Dogs with a tower crane made of wood on either side.

2m tall starboard lateral marker buoy saying 'Welcome' in languages spoken in the countries where Clifford Chance has offices.

Detail showing prints collaged with stitch.

5 x 2.5m collage of prints depicting the River Thames meander around the Isle of Dogs with a tower crane made of wood on either side.
About My Work
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​I am a printmaker based on the Surrey/Berkshire border, exploring our relationship with landscape. I am interested in both how we form attachments to place and how we experience it; the feelings and emotions the natural world evokes in us. These landscapes are not untouched wildernesses but living records of our actions and attitudes over millennia, carrying both visible and invisible layers of memory.
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My prints ask viewers to pause and consider the quiet power of place; how landscapes root us, record our collective past and prompt questions of how to live in the future. Each print becomes both a reflection of place and an invitation for others to reconnect with their own landscapes; helping us each become more ecologically aware through the connection we feel.
The technical side of printmaking requires patience and practise, yet it is an art form which lends itself to experimentation. At the core of my practice is a deep-rooted desire to experiment, explore and ask 'what happens if...?'. Experimenting with a range of printmaking techniques means they inform each other, whilst using a practice-based research approach leads to new ways of looking at the landscape and so process and experience become cyclical.
Alongside editioned prints I also create large, site specific collaged 2D and 3D works incorporating stitch with print.
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You can watch a 5 minute film about my practice.
This was made for the final unit of MA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins in spring 2024.
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I featured in the March 2026 Handprinted 'Meet the Maker' blog.

Awards
​2025
UAL/Clifford ​Chance Sculpture Award 2025 Winner
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2024
Named in UAL 'Future 50 Founders and Freelancers' 2024
UAL Graduate Award Nominee - Post Graduate Show, Central Saint Martins
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2021
Lucie Green Printmakers Prize - Southbank Printmakers Mini Print Competition, London
Testimonials
"The print perfectly captures what it feels like in the forest"
Darren
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​"I love that Jo's work is like having the forest that I love so much on my walls as well as on my doorstep"
Claire
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"You can tell you love that forest as much as I do!"
Heather
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"Once again you have captured the soul of Swinley"
Dan​​
"I could see this at Frieze"
Cia Director at WCPF (now Imprint Art Fair) speaking about
'Where Fortunes Flow and Mud Remembers'
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Education
​2022-2024 MA Fine Art UAL Central Saint Martins (Distinction)
2018-2021 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design West Dean College
​Featured on WeDirectory — curated creative directory
