Work

I’m Home brings together the works of Black British Female Photographers who explore the ideas of the home and family.

Following on from Matron Bell and inspired by recent events in the UK, particularly in relation to the Windrush generation, Alongside Matron Bell celebrates the contribution of Black nurses and health workers to the establishment of the NHS.

I created this residency in 2013 at the Beach House in Jamaica. Each participant examining the work of the house’s notorious former owner, couturier Trevor Owen.

Created for the Diaspora Pavilion as part of the 2017 Venice Biennale 2017 the work is concerned with the invisibility of the remarkable world changing achievements of women throughout history across the world.

Following the success of Radiating Greatness in 2019, BCA commissioned Joy to create Breaking Barriers, the second chapter of a three-year project to make visible the journeys of pioneering Black British women who have overcome adversity to take their rightful seat at the table.

Breath is Invisible is a public art project that acknowledges the ability of art to say things we cannot express with words. It is a project born of urgency to address issues of social inequality and injustice and supports the dialogue that is a necessary part of our community life.

The 21st Century has brought along a blonde with a slightly different hue – harking back to vision of Barbie crossed with the values of a 1950’s housewife.

This work uses the ‘condition’ ‘Blonde’ as a way of describing notions of shifting identities.

This work was commissioned by CCCB in Barcelona to provide an overview / document of London and its connection with the African continent today.

In 2001 my father was diagnosed with cancer which coincided with the arrival of my first cameraphone which unwittingly documents the following few years of my life.

In March and April 2008 I participated in an international artists workshop on the island of Hoy, Orkney. The wintery conditions impacted on the work of all the artists. Central to my inspiration was the time and distance of the journey to Hoy from London overland.

Marjorie Bell MBE was matron at the hospital from 1949-1970 years, which would have seen the formation and development of many changes of the NHS.

In 2009 spent the beginning of the summer on an Artist Residency at Kuona Trust in Nairobi.

N|u is a moribund language of the southern Kalahari

Gomera focuses on the close relationship between the physical landscape and language.

The Language of Flowers, was a popular ‘Victorian’ form of interaction in which every flower had individual meaning.

It later developed as a very personal examination and exploration of personal hopes, aspirations, ambitions and desires.

Who can deny the power of a pair of hairdresser’s scissors, or the bewitching effect of a set of dark false eyelashes?

The people know they can be whom they want, when they want, with whom they want.

The work reflects on the international issue of shared colonial histories, taking the local as a reflection of the global.

These exquisite gloves, imported into South Africa from Europe, manufactured in fine satin, or soft kid with handstitched soft leather, delicate embroidery and careful beading, inhabited a world where in public covered hands and matching garments were de-riguer.

For me what is interesting and intriguing about these objects is their association with a particular society and moment in history.

“What is interesting about the iconographic nature of the Blonde is that no matter how the world moves on, there are still those hanging on by their last finely manicured nail to the image of the ‘bubble blonde’.

I decided to photograph these garments which represent different times and experiences in my life.

Inspired by numerous interviews conducted during a four-month research trip around the Caribbean.

This work is an exploration of gender construction through the obvious association with object and ‘feminine’ description.

‘Memory and Skin’ uses image, sound, objects and text to weave together is a series of narratives, which talks of the Caribbean as a fusion of the cultures and colonial legacies.

500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but al