Jo Naden

Natural forces and phenomena, are explored through synchronistic connections of myth, legend, culture and craft.

Incidental conclusions may be drawn or formed in hand-held shapes or larger human scaled sculpture.

Work is held in private collections both internationally and in the U.K.

Public commissions include Cadbury, Dudley Group of Hospitals and Queen Elizabeth Hospital, BCCC. Park Central Birmingham. The British Art Medal Society, commissioned  TIME SPENT, that explores the dandelion plant in a mythical/ botanical context.

Recent commissions VERNAL EQUINOX: 28 DEGREES 2019 (Goetheanum, Switzerland, hand-held), and GNOMON (Ruskin Mill Trust, Stroud, three meters, still to be sited). 2019 Lijiang Studios, Yunnan, artist residency, RHODODENDRON, the title of a document and installation responding to this experience: -

‘…….under the verandah a wood fire cooks a large pot of potatoes, a line holds the skin and paws of a white rabbit, next to these something resembling an animal gut dries.

he goes into his dark sleeping quarters and brings forth a herbalist’s guidebook

he says he has two copies, one his father’s and one for his son, identical apart from the signs of wear; he only uses his father’s. (The Herbalist).