WHAT’S ON OFFER
Bookable support, consultancy and advice sessions offering support for artists at all stages of their careers working across visual art, dance, theatre and performance.

“Walk & Talk” — 1.5-hour online artist strategy sessions to talk through half-finished ideas, shape an idea for an application, work on time management, set goals, and all the sticky, indescribable stuff in between. The Walk & Talk is based on in-person sessions that Jo has had with various artists at R&D stages.
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Funding application writing support — 1 day (minimum) support planning, shaping, editing, scribing and writing a funding application (budgets and evaluations). **
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RATES

“Walk & Talk” — Strategy session (online, 1.5 hours): £100
Application Support — Editing and consultancy (online, day rate): £300

Some one-off applications (e.g., for commissions, residencies) offer a set fee, and I am open to taking on this work for the fee offered by the organisation/opportunity.

PRIORITIES
Jo’s services are open to all; however, they always prioritise artists who are disabled, neurodivergent, femme, non-binary or trans.

NOTHING IS CREATED IN A VACUUM
Jo would like to give credit and thanks to those individuals who have been key in shaping how they work; none of their working strategies would have been made possible without Phoebe Davies / Fieldwork, Sam Trotman, SSW, Kathryn Cutler-Mackenzie, and Emma Jayne Park.

Joanne (Jo/Jojo) Matthews is an artist, producer/project manager and radio show host based in Scotland.

SPECIALISMS
Jo has built a career, knowledge of and skills working in the key areas of accessibility and disability, transfeminist ecology, and performance art & activism. 

Jo is an artist with lived experience of disability, and has an embodied knowledge of collective access practices. 

They are especially good at “the interesting sticky stuff” and at supporting artists to develop and organise thoughts, strategies and ideas. 

Jo’s experience and interest in accessibility, equity and environmentally-focused working has led them to be a key player in shaping policy and working practices in organisations across the United Kingdom.
 

EXPERIENCE
Over their 15-year-long career, Jo has worked with leading arts organisations to create, deliver and manage projects, artist bursary programmes, residencies, festivals and learning programmes.

Select clients include Scottish Sculpture Workshop (Aberdeenshire) where Jo recently worked for two years as Programme Manager, Battersea Arts Centre (London), Artsadmin (London), British Council (UK & Lebanon), Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Aberdeen Performing Arts, Unlimited (Wakefield), Yaraqa (Beirut), Dance Base (Edinburgh), Art Walk Porty (Edinburgh) and Embassy Gallery (Edinburgh). Jo has recently joined Creative Scotland’s cohort of Access support workers - a pilot programme to pair support workers with Artists to help them write funding applications.

Jo has worked with countless artists over the years whose work spans activism, public interventions, performance, film, sculpture, dance, education, sound art and research.

Jo has been selected to take part in several international labs, including the Cifas Producer Academy 2023 (Belgium), Artsadmin Imagine 2020 Summer Lab (London) and the 2018 Emerging Producers Development Programme at Edinburgh Fringe with British Council.