Eva Joy

Eva Joy is a multidisciplinary "artivist" whose work explores themes of protest, connection, apocalyptic possibilities, and the climate crisis. A graduate of Manchester School of Art and The University of Barcelona with a BA in Fine Art and Art History, Joy currently resides in London. Her urban upbringing informs her artistic practice, with the grit and absurdity of city life frequently captured in her works. Since her first major post-graduate exhibition with Kensington & Chelsea Art Week in 2020, Joy has exhibited around the UK and internationally in Denmark, Germany, Italy, India, the US, Mexico and Spain. She often challenges traditional art spaces, preferring to use public interventions and community collaborations to ignite social change. This methodology is exemplified in her recent residency with IDENSITAT in Alicante which united many facets of the community to focus on an endangered species and our collective changing human relationship with our oceans. Her passion for public art with social commentary is also evident in her solo interview with 'Unmuted' for Sky Arts which first aired in 2021. Currently working as a Workshop Leader and Street Art Tour Guide in East London, she daily enthuses new people about art in public space and encourages them to join this mischievous movement. Joy regularly incorporates recycled materials and found objects into her art, an act of community cleaning that simultaneously subverts the elitism of the art world. Her practice balances humour and horror, recognising humour as a valuable tool for engaging with complex and overwhelming issues such as the climate crisis and colonial capitalism.