Unframed
A collection of small artworks from nine
Prime Women Artists
89 Redruth | 30 April - 7 May 2025 | 10am - 5pm
Into bodmin
Join Josie at the launch of Into Bodmin’s Spring Trail on Saturday 29 March.
Plus, get creative at the community embellishment session on 23 April 2-4pm at the Old Library Cafe.
Find out all about it at: Into Bodmin Spring Trail
Survey Help
Can you help Josie with her anonymous survey?
Please take this short survey all about abstract photography and freshwater environments.
Visit the survey here to take part.
Riverside Relationships
Come join Josie as she takes you for a meander along freshwater habitats as part of the Right to Roam Kernow festival. She will be sharing thoughts from her PhD research and encouraging everyone to discover how to build kinship with freshwater environments and even see them in new ways, as we work towards better access to the watery, wild spaces we are currently excluded from.
Free to book - click the image or search for:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/our-riverside-relationships
Food Stories
Within the pages of FOOD STORIES from Shutter Hub, selected photographers invite you to join them at the table as they serve up a slice of their own food stories. Find Josie’s story inside.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions in November 2024.
An eco-photographic and eco-acoustic workshop with Westcountry Rivers Trust as part of the charity’s pilot project to inspire river kinship through arts and science.
First session in St Agnes, 5 Oct 2024.
Photo-Art call out
NOW CLOSED
Submit today to The Waters of Sulis & Beyond.
Josie is curating this creative aspect of
Fringe Arts Bath to highlight the chemical challenges our rivers face.
With water ‘on tap’ in the UK, participating artists are asked to share what freshwater means to them by creating abstract images with the full collaboration of the riverine.
The images shared will help to raise the profile of our water security and offer mediation between people and freshwater.
Deadline: 12 April at 23:59pm GMT
All the info at fringeartsbath.co.uk/waters
More at FAB-2024
IN THIS TOGETHER
A joint show with diverse artists curated by Ilya Fisher to inspire conversation relating to environmental matters and our future on the Earth.
You can also hear Ilya speaking to Josie on the Photopocene podcast.
Art from Heart
Artist of the Month - Feb/March 2022
Incredibly honoured to be an Artist of the Month with Art from Heart. This showcases my 2020 Elemental Eidos series which uses the microscopic world of sand and a seemingly collective human love for kaleidoscopes to draw attention to sustainable mining practices.
Inspired by a waveform array sometimes seen in a geological sampling technique, Cathodoluminescence, this series is created using hybrid lumen/digital processes, combining negatives from Cathodoluminescence images and/or sand and earth.
Visit artfromheart.co.uk to see more or head over to my portfolio page.
Listen (or read) as Josie chats to the wonderful Jo from Jo’s Art History Podcast all about Anna Atkins and the cyanotype process. Shared to mark International Women’s Day 2021.
OF Earth - For Earth
As one of six commissioned artists funded by IMP@CT (Exeter Uni/EU), Josie will be part of an international sustainable mining conference taking place 9-12 March 2020 at Heartlands, Cornwall.
It is designed to create dialogues around how our modern behaviours demand that the extractive industries provide resources without damaging
the planet.
More info at: #OEFE2020
Starting Space
Selected for The Photo's Edge Presents first exhibition for experimental, analogue photography.
November 2021
Follow on Instagram @thephotosedge
Festival pil’ours
Time to Think
145 female photographers from across 15 different countries on display with ShutterHub in sunny St Gilles Croix de Vie from Sunday 7 July 2019 for the Fourth Edition of Festival Pil’Ours.
IM(MATERIAL)
A 360 virtual exhibition exploring the tangible and intangible concepts surrounding materials with Curating Futures.
From 15 January 2022
cyanotype by the sea
All cyanotype workshops are being rescheduled
for 2021 - more info soon
Josie hopes to be back at Bedruthan Hotel & Spa on the North Cornwall coast and Cohort Hostel in St Ives in 2021 so that you can spend a wonderful
few hours learning all about the vintage photographic process, Cyanotype.
Harness the power of nature to create your one-off bluetiful prints, tote or scarf.
The Photopocene Collective
Come and join the first Photopocene Collective for eco-conscious photographic artists in Cornwall & beyond.
Building on Josie’s Photopocene podcast, this is an opportunity to enjoy a relaxed natter about all things eco-conscious photography related such as creating a sustainable practice, work-in-progress, hints and tips on eco-photo processes, discussing those we are inspired by, making collaborations and more.
Call in between 9.30am to 11am on Sunday 9 June at Josie’s studio workshop, based at Roots Press, Mount Pleasant Eco Park, Chapel Hill, Porthtowan, TR4 8HL.
It’s great to be one of 120 photographers in Shutter Hub’s year-long TO THE SEA exhibition in St Gilles Croix de Vie, France. Images encompass multiple visions of the sea – environmental, actual, emotional, and more.
Oct 2023 - Oct 2024.
River to Sea Cyanotypes
A fab seaweed and cyanotype printing workshop with Westcountry Rivers Trust’s #BringingRivers2U campaign & Natural England and friends for #NNRweek2023 at #KennackSands
Photography & Protest
Bootcamp was held in January 2022, a free two-week online programme with Hundred Heroines, the only UK charity dedicated to women and photography.
Josie took part to help raise the profile of women in photography and develop an idea for a new series relating to England’s land access rights.
The results of this collaboration can be seen at hundredheroines.org/photo-gloucester-2022/silent-protest/
Flotsam
Join Josie and 9 other artists in Lyme Regis from 1 - 7 July.
Josie will be showing images from The Fallen and her new repurposed cyanotype paper flower series, 985 Blue.
Hundred heroines 2022
It’s great to joining the HH Bootcamp again in 2022. This year’s focus is Photography & Protest.
Of earth - For earth
I’m in a book!
Very honoured to ba a part of this art exhibition, book and conference relating to our relationship to mining practices.
To find out more, or to order a copy, please visit: oefe.co.uk
Thanks to the #oefe team and all the contributing artists - a wonderful experience and a great topic.
Postcards from Great britain
Selected for Postcards from Great Britain by
Shutter Hub.
Postcards from Great Britain launches in Haarlem on 5 March at the city’s famous Hotel Lion d’Or.
Reflect bude
A weekend of sound, light, music and art bringing local communities, regional and international artists together to explore the connection between coastal living and wellbeing.
A photographic installation, Intertidal Blue,
in situ on one of the benches above Bude Sea Pool.
4 - 6 October 2019
Shutterhub…
Ty PAWB OPEN
An Exhibition Celebrating Lockdown Creativity
The exhibition will be open to the public from October 2020 – Feb 2021
(Covid restrictions allowing)
The galleries will be open 10am-4pm,
Wednesday-Saturday
Book via:
Photopocene
Photography has had a significant impact on the world we live in.
Join Josie on her Photopocene Podcast to hear her chats with other photographers passionate about using their creative talents to raise awareness of environmental issues.
You are invited to take part too...
Please get in touch if you would like to share your ecologically conscious visual work in an audio way.
Email josie[at]josiepurcellphotography.com or via the Contact page to let her know how your photographic work promotes environment-related topics - include a link to some examples too.
She will be in touch soon to let you know if a recording date and time can be arranged.
Your info will only be used in connection with this podcast call-out.
Feb 2024 - Abstracts
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Looking forward to being included in a paper about eco-conscious photographic practices by Marthe Fjellestad and Hanne Hammer Stien for the Danish peer reviewed Periskop Journal.
Marthe is a curator with Perspektivet Museum, Tromsø, and Hanne is an associate professor in Art History at The Artic University of Norway.
Blue Your Minds
A wonderful ocean-inspired workshop to support the mental wellbeing of students at Falmouth University.
May 2023.
Exposure Photography Festival - Canada
Join Josie and the TEND COLLECTIVE online for a curator talk and meet the artists’ session showcasing the group’s Silent Protest project
12 February
SustainablE Photography Matters
Josie will be delivering a one-day online course with The Photographers’ Gallery
on Saturday 8 October.
Book via https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/course-greener-photography
A further evening online four-week course will take place later in the year or in early 2023.
Details to follow.
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Josie joined other photographers to speak with Affinity Spotlight editor Melanie Khareghat for an article on sustainability in photography.
Read more at affinityspotlight.com
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Talking about my photographic story with Harry Fricker from Diorama Days.
Find out more: Studio
Shutter Hub OPEN 2020/21
This brings together international photographers in a selected exhibition, celebrating the future of photography through diverse and creative imagery.
01 September – 10 October, London.
Info via
https://shutterhub.org.uk/exhibitions/shutter-hub-open-20-21-london/
Catalyst
Enter a virtual gallery and experience 'Catalyst', an online exhibition celebrating nearly a decade of arts/science collaborations as part of the ESI Creative Exchange at the University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute.
artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/news/experience-catalyst-a-new-virtual-exhibition
From April, for 12 weeks, the ESI will also be sharing more about the artists and researchers involved in each collaboration via short blogs on its website and social media.
Keep your eye on their Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to discover more.
Read Josie’s 6000 Flowers exhibition article, created with ESI scientists by clicking the highlighted link.
Postcards From great britain
I’m very excited that my Bird’s Nest image is part of this largescale pop-up photo project from ShutterHub.
Photographers are sharing their visions of British culture through photographic images to create conversations and exchange.
My photograph is included in the Porto, Portugal, display running to 27 June.
Find out more on the ShutterHub blog.
ILFORD Feature
Even when you have a love of film and traditional darkroom practices, there’s always room for alternative photo process experimentation - find our from ecological photo-artist Josie Purcell as she chats with Ilford Photo.
March 2021
Bootcamp 2021
Honoured to be part of the HH Bootcamp 2021
Read my profile submission at:
Beauty in imperfection
Reclaim Photography Festival
Lighthouse Media Centre, Wolverhampton
6 - 30 January 2020 (NOW EXTENDED)
HARENA NOW
Exhibition & talk at
The Devonport Guild
14 - 26 September
Artist talk: 1pm 14 September
Find out more about the inspiration behind
Harena Now
#globalsandcrisis