About
Joanne Tiffany (she/her) is an artist based in Wakefield currently studying Fine Art at Leeds Beckett University.
Tiffany’s work, from both a political and poetic viewpoint, explores the social contract, expressive of accepted social norms, as an invisible agreement. Whilst this purportedly offers benefits for all, the self-same supposedly ‘inclusive’ social contract can also serve to restrict personal liberties. This is best exemplified in issues of access which can be infuriatingly restrictive. Her work confronts the hypocrisy within this and the inherent practices therein that disadvantage or worse still even negate certain constituencies. Living with disability and chronic illness her multi-disciplinary practice whilst highlighting health and wellbeing draws primarily but not exclusively upon her own lived personal experience to be both progressive and positive.
This can be seen in her work Idle Hands (2022), a crocheted lap blanket encompassing hidden narratives of the history of the West Riding Pauper Lunatic Asylum. It was shown in the exhibition Recollections May Vary at the Mental Health Museum, Wakefield. Tiffany is also an Ambassador for the Charity ‘Outside In’ attached to the exhibition.
Curated Exhibition’s
2025 Radical Connectedness - External Link White Column LSA
Group Show’s
2025 Radical Connectedness - External Link Joanne Tiffany — White Column LSA
2025 Big Screen - Leeds School of Arts Short Film. April, outdoor screening of two 60-second films, Leeds and Bradford
2024 Aire Place Studios: ‘Let Us See You’
2024 White Column: ‘This is My Default’ - External Link https://whitecolumn.art/this-is-my-default
2024 R3connect Project - External Link R3connect project – Louisa Peters Research, Pilgrimage - YouTube
St Thomas Centre, Manchester
Left Bank, Leeds
Lawrence Batley Cellar Theatre, Huddersfield
2023 White Column: ‘Xmas Singles’ - External Link https://whitecolumn.art/xmas-classic-singles
2023 Sunny Bank Mills: ‘Ones to Watch’ - External Link Joanne Tiffany - Sunny Bank Mills | Art Gallery & Business Space in Leeds
2022 Henry Moore Institute: Student Takeover - Leeds School of Arts Collaboration
2022 Mental Health Museum: ‘Recollections May Vary’
2022 Media Wall - Leeds School of Arts Short Film Competition. Short films by Leeds Beckett University students of Fine Art, Games Design, and Graphic Design in collaboration with Columbia Threadneedle Investments.
2022 Outside In (Online): Another space with in- External Link https://outsidein.org.uk/exhibition/another-space-within/
Museum’s
2023 ‘Idle Hand’s’ enshrined in The Mental Health Museum, Wakefield’s collection.
Publication’s
2024 Asylum: the radical mental health magazine- Autumn, Volume 31, Number 3. edited by Hel Spandler- External Link Asylum Magazine (Volume 31, Number 3) - Autumn 2024 - Asylum Magazine
2024 The Jingle Book - book, edition of 200 published by Bluecoat, edited by Alan Dunn; contribution of creative content on theme of dementia activities - External Link https://alandunn67.co.uk/jinglebook.html
Workshop’s
2024 CoActive Arts: Pride and Protest
2023 Recollections May Vary Legacy Workshop: A Stitch in Time
Professional Appointment’s
2022 Outside In Ambassador
Membership’s
2023 Working Class Creatives
2022 Outside In
2022 DISrupt
Other
2025 Disability Arts Online - Disabled artists make connections in Leeds - Gill Crawshaw Review on ‘Radical Connectedness’ project and Nature Sensory Exhibition - https://disabilityarts.online/blog/gill-crawshaw/disabled-artists-make-connections-in-leeds/
2025 - YVAN Artist Spotlight - https://www.yvan.org.uk/artist-spotlights/joanne-tiffany
External Link’s
Instagram:
Art: https://www.instagram.com/joanne_tiffany_art/
Photography: https://www.instagram.com/joanne_tiffany_photography/