Joanna Buckley

Vessel is the exhibition outcome of a research inquiry into states of consciousness associated with love, such as in connection with natural environments, spiritual experience, love between beings, and self-love. These works explore the possibility of encountering such experiences in cultural environments through materiality, light, movement, sound and poetry.

As in Luce Irigaray’s ideas on self as intrinsically relational, and Byung-Chul Han's discussion on revitalizing vita contemplativa, these works seek to cultivate a contemplative space of sensory perception and play, that refers to an expanded notion of self.

Joanna Buckley’s art practice involves sculpture, painting and site-specific installation with an interconnected relationship to nature and abstraction. With an upbringing in the Northern Territory of Australia on Arrernte and Larrakia land and initial studies in built environment design and art in public space, Buckley has exhibited internationally, produced work for various commissions, and is represented in private collections in Australia and Europe. In 2017 she was awarded the Australia Council Arts Projects for Individuals grant for the Light and the Ground at the Abbotsford Convent Melbourne, and in 2021 was co-recipient of Seed Project funding for Melbourne Monash Consciousness Research. Joanna Buckley is currently an Associate Member of Artery Co-operative Ltd.