‘Sick Enough?’ 2025, is a large imposing installation reaching out and taking over the exhibition space, reflecting the experience of becoming ill. It is a visual journey and exploration of chronic illness and reliance on the medical and pharmaceutical industry in a turbulent and unreliable world of unknowing and the daily confusion this brings. The installation is a combination of mobility aids and two artworks: ‘Memento Mori’ 2024 and ‘Printed Matter’ 2025. The artwork was originally shown for her first degree show.

‘Printed Matter’ is a digital collage of medication information from leaflets provided within packaging. The collage is a mass of scattered information, with warnings, side effects, how-to's and directions, along with information a person must remember and discuss with their doctor. This information, despite its great importance, is buried in the small print and therefore normally overlooked and discarded. The deliberate enlarging of the artwork lifts the lid on the avoided, uncomfortable and overwhelming truth of medications, revealing the daily anxiety and oppressive struggle pharmaceutical companies want society to be oblivious to. Within domestic settings wallpaper is seen as beautiful, adding to the aesthetic of homeliness and cosiness creating a warm and welcoming environment. However, this artwork has the potential to disturb, to intriguing and even educate.

‘Memento Mori’ is a mixed-media textile sculpture, incorporating used and discarded white empty medication packets blanket stitched and then crocheted together with white cotton to form a hanging. This shapeshifting artwork expands in context, having been different artworks in its growing form. Previous variations of ‘Memento Mori’ have entangled and encroached on the domestic setting and labour. As a lap blanket and a throw displayed on a chair, the work questioned comfort, security and our relationships with our everyday surroundings and the objects we interact with. Joanne Tiffany will develop and explore this more in the future.

External Links:

Leeds Beckett University degree show website: https://lbulsafineartdegreeshow2025.cargo.site

Leeds Beckett University degree show website direct to Joanne’s page: https://lbulsafineartdegreeshow2025.cargo.site/jo-tiffany-picture