038 - Juno Calypso
'12 Reasons You're Tired All The Time' © Juno Calypso
Juno Calypso is a 2012 graduate of the BA Photography course at the London College of Communication, where her degree show was awarded both the Hotshoe Portfolio Award and the Michael Wilson Photographic Prize. In 2013 The Independent noted Juno Calypso as ‘One To Watch’, as have numerous other publications since.
The Catlin Art Guide featured Juno as one of 40 of the most promising new artists in the UK, subsequently shortlisting her for the 2013 Catlin Art Prize, where she won the Visitor Vote Prize. In 2015 she also won the BJP International Photography Award. Her work is featured in the current issue of Foam magazine as one of 24 young artists shaping the future of photography. Juno has exhibited internationally with group shows in London, Miami and New York, and her work has been featured in The Sunday Times Magazine, Wonderland, Dazed & Confused, and The Huffington Post among many others.
“I recently began working with self-portraiture, which led to the creation of a character named Joyce" says Juno in an artists statement. "Within elaborately staged large format photographs I draw upon personal experience to perform critical studies into modern rituals of beauty and seduction. Objects once perceived as radical, innovative, fun and nutritious – an electronic anti-wrinkle mask, computer equipment from the 1980s, baby oil, a tin of cold meat – have become joyless and oppressive. Joyce appears alone, consumed by artifice. Her glazed appearance acting as a mirror to the exhaustion felt whilst bearing the dead weight of constructed femininity.”
In episode 038, Juno discusses, among other things:
Showing up to everything
Her mum
Where the name 'Joyce' came from
The inspiration of humour and horror
Self sufficiency (and confidence)
The significance of masks (and meat)
Relaxing in supermarkets
Realising you have to "keep climaxing 'til you die"
“I’m, like, half shy, half loud. I’m shypolar.”
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