‘Ordered Chaos’

Dark Horse Experiments,
Blender Studios
April 19-May 4, 2024

Jo Ryan’s artwork is composed of a weird psychological and surreal imagery, depicting hidden moments in a familiar world.

The familiarity of suburbia is something that artist placates through her choice of imagery. The absence of life in much of the artwork evokes vast emptiness and creates a window into a familiar dystopian world. Ryan has constructed a mise en scene, that gives the iconography a new and secondary life outside the suburban banality.

Ryan uses design techniques to blur the boundaries of urban art, fine art, and design. Her techniques emphasise this interest in the urban, through her choice of imagery. Dystopian landscapes re-envisioned with passion transforming the ugly and banal.

Dr. Adrian Doyle
Director
Blender Studios