Josie Perry: Betrayal Hurts

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Josie Perry
Betrayal Hurts
2022
colour pencils on paper
29.7 x 42 cm
Framed

Produced within the framework of collaborative project ‘Plasma Spring’ with Daphne Simons

Artist biographies

Josie Perry and Daphne Simons have been collaborating since 2019, when they self-published their first comic Plasma Spring. They have since released three more comics, the most recent published by Glom Press (2022) and PrintRoom Rotterdam (2021). Expanding from the fictional world of the comics, their work also includes video, multimedia installations, sculpture, and colour pencil drawings by Josie. Recent exhibitions include at 16 Nicholson Street (Glasgow), Stichting SIGN (Gröningen), Het Archief (Rotterdam), Alta Art Space (Malmö) and The Audio Foundation (Auckland). They have shown video work online for WET Film, and presented a show on Radio Sloppy (Bruges).

Josie Perry has also exhibited and performed at Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam), Centre Cívic Can Felipa (Barcelona), Stichting Perdu (Amsterdam), Twenty One, venue of Focal Point Gallery (Southend- on-Sea), DE PLAYER (Rotterdam), LaVallée, (Brussels), Torpedo theater (Amsterdam) and Joey Ramone
Gallery (Rotterdam). She is part of the Glasgow CCA Intermedia Gallery’s upcoming programme and will present a collaborative exhibition with Francis Jones in 2024. Her MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute was funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

Daphne Simons has also exhibited and performed at Te Tuhi Art Gallery (Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland), The Performance Arcade (Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington); Pension Lutz (Munich); RM Gallery (Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland); Artspace Aotearoa (Tāmaki Makaurau, Auckland); Enjoy Contemporary Art Space (Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington); Blue Oyster; (Ōtepoti, Dunedin) and The Physics Room (Ōtautahi,
Christchurch).