Welcome to Studio Integrifolia, the creative practice of artist Jo McLean.
Bringing together art-making, gardening, and playful experimentation, Jo works with living plants and their many symbolic and representational forms.
On an industrial site on the fringes of inner city Newcastle, Jo is creating a garden. Grown organically and planted to attract both pollinators and people, the studio garden is a space to engage with nature and explore new ways of noticing, making, and connecting - facilitated by Jo through creative workshops and immersive experiences.
The studio garden
A Plant-filled play date!
An immersive afternoon of creative experimentation in the studio garden
Work with Jo
Got a project brewing, an event in need of a little wonder, or an overlooked corner crying out for some plant-inspired magic?
Let’s collaborate.
Pick your own floral arrangement
Select flowers and foliage from the studio garden to create your own botanical arrangement
Projects & Past Work
The Pretty / Provocative Thought Garden, 2022
Participatory installation at Make Space, Newcastle
New Annual Festival 2022
24th September - 8th October
Plant Play Date, 2022
Mixed media (Acrylic, chalk pastel and oil stick) on canvas
100cm x 120cm
Tethering the mind to the weeds while I walk, engaging curiosity to stay present, 2022
Participatory installation at Straitjacket Artspace
17th August - 4th September 2022
Perennial Border, 2021
Mixed media (Acrylic, chalk pastel, oil stick and collage)
60cm x 70cm
Sprig, 2022
Mixed media (Acrylic, collage, chalk pastel and oil stick) on canvas
90cm x 120cm
Botanica, 2021
Mixed media (acrylic, chalk pastel and oil stick) on canvas
80cm x 80cm
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