Joshua Webb

Joshua Webb is an Australian born visual artist (1981), who has exhibited across Australia, the USA and Europe. His artistic practice has been in parallel to his academic pursuits; BFA, Curtin University, Australia, MFA – Sculpture, Rhode Island School of Design, USA, and his experience working as an industrial designer for a select group of technology firms. Webb’s practice employs an intuitively selected set of binary systems, borrowed from the history of ideas to construct art that articulates the potential for a contemporary, alternative model of the grand-narrative schema.

He has received a number of grants and awards, including a Galerie Dusseldorf Scholarship in 2006, an Arts WA fellowship in 2007, the Anne and Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarships and secondary scholarship in 2008/09, the Department of Culture and the Arts: Young People and the Arts International Scholarship 2009 and more recently gained a place in the 2011 class to attend the Skowhegan: School of Painting & Sculpture in Maine USA. Solo exhibition include; APATHY FOR THE SETTING SUN. 2011 / New Violence. 2008 Galerie Dusseldorf, Perth, Australia and New Violence. 2008 Meet Factory, Prague, Czech Republic. Notable group shows include Brand New Bag (2010) at Recess INC. Gallery, Soho, NYC, USA, FACE ON THE BARROOM FLOOR (2010) at the Gelman Gallery, RI, USA, PYT: Pretty Young Thing (2009) at the Sol Koffler Gallery, RI, USA, HIJACKED (2008) Australian Centre for Photography, NSW, AUST, New Disorder (2007) at the Ice Cream Factory, Perth, AUST , and BECKON (2006) Perth Institute of Contemporary Art

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