About Joe...
Joe Webb (b. 1976) is a Brighton (UK) based artist working with collage and painting. His work tackles everything from environmental issues and politics to the existential confusion of being a human in a massive universe. Lately, he has also gone back to his roots with painting, focusing on ways of capturing light.
Since graduating from the University for the Creative Arts in 1999, Joe has shown his work all over the world, including stops in Australia, Greece, and China. He has had two solo shows at London’s Saatchi Gallery, and you can still buy his prints in their shop.
“Joe navigates a rich landscape with grace and humor, making nice with many recognizable visual pastimes. He plays them against each other in a way that puts different eras in dialogue, allowing characters to travel far from their 50’s Home Gardening Magazine roots to the far cosmos. He flirts with the themes of nostalgia and loss but ultimately composes lighthearted images that are in dialogue with today’s sampling culture, collapsing and hacking together sources from across the universe in fun and rudely jacked up color schemes.”
“I started making these simple hand-made collages as a reaction to working as a graphic artist on computers for many years. I like the limitations of collage...using found imagery and a pair of scissors, there are no Photoshop options to resize, adjust colours or undo.
My collages work to a basic rule of sourcing just two or three images... with these I can reinvent the original scene to communicate a new idea.”
Photo by @stewartbywater