Joanna Mamede is a Brazilian-British artist and director working across moving image, installation, ceramics and print. Her practice moves between document and myth, exploring the social, political and historical forces that shape bodies, landscapes and collective memories, and the forms of resistance that emerge from them.

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Each work begins by building a world in which bodies, landscapes and histories are brought into relation. Working with performers, actors, academics and community participants, Mamede centres women and marginalised groups as agents rather than subjects. Her recent work, Willow Black, brings together film, performance and ceramic sculpture within a single installation. Her ceramics and prints continue the same lines of enquiry as the moving image work, extending its concerns through material form. Across media, research takes shape through image, gesture and object.

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Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally at the Tate Modern, Aesthetica Film Festival, Festival Ecrã, Videobardo, Deptford X, Ruskin Gallery and Rich Mix. She holds an MRes in Art: Moving Image from Central Saint Martins. She is a Trustee at Equalities Work, a charity advancing social justice through arts and education, and a former Trustee at LUX Moving Image. She is a member of the ICGC, overseeing the Gilberto Chateaubriand Collection of Brazilian modern and contemporary art.