JO DARBYSHIRE
Jo Darbyshire is a mid-career Western Australian painter whose work is represented in significant Australian art collections including the Art Gallery of Western Australia, Murdoch University, Bank West, Royal Perth Hospital, Department of Culture and the Arts, Edith Cowan University and the Cities of Stirling and Wanneroo. Her work has also been selected for inclusion in many curated and award group exhibitions, notably the Joondalup Art Award (2004 and 2005), the Bank West Contemporary Art Prize where she won the open prize in 2005, and most recently she was a finalist in the Fleurieu (Water) Art Award (2011).
Darbyshire has been the recipient of research grants awarded from the Western Australian Ministry or Culture and the Arts and the Australia Council. In 2007, she was juried into the international thematic residency Imaginary Places, at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Darbyshire received both her Bachelor of Fine Arts and her Master of Creative Arts from the Curtin University of Technology.
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