About Joe...

Joe Webb (1976) is a collagist, painter and musician based on the South East of the UK.

Webb is best known for his hand-made collages that touch on environmental, geopolitical issues, through to mysticism… questioning why we are here and what our role might be in the World and beyond into Universe. Making simple edits from original vintage magazines Webb reinvents the original scenes into something altogether different.

Recently he has become interested in smaller, (and sometimes huge), landscape paintings based on frequent trips to Sweden and Iceland…These paintings are an attempt to explore something more serene and spiritual. The paintings attempt to evoke an appreciation of the natural world, translating the landscapes he's viewing in an inquisitive and almost magical way.

Webb’s art has been showcased in galleries internationally, including the esteemed Saatchi Gallery, London.

Joe lives and works in the UK.

Listen to an interview with Joe here

Joe navigates a rich landscape with grace and humor, making nice with many recognizable visual pastimes. He plays them against each other in a way that puts different eras in dialogue, allowing characters to travel far from their 50’s Home Gardening Magazine roots to the far cosmos. He flirts with the themes of nostalgia and loss but ultimately composes lighthearted images that are in dialogue with today’s sampling culture, collapsing and hacking together sources from across the universe in fun and rudely jacked up color schemes.
— Wangechi Mutu, internationally acclaimed artist
I started making these simple hand-made collages as a reaction to working as a graphic artist on computers for many years. I like the limitations of collage...using found imagery and a pair of scissors, there are no Photoshop options to resize, adjust colours or undo.

My collages work to a basic rule of sourcing just two or three images... with these I can reinvent the original scene to communicate a new idea.
— Joe Webb
Studio shot by @fiddessmith

Studio shot by @fiddessmith