Jo Dyer is an artist from Mulubinba - Newcastle, NSW. She respectfully acknowledges the Awabakal and Worimi people as the traditional custodians of the lands on which she lives and works and recognises the rich traditions and continuing creative cultures of all First Nations people of Australia. 
 

Jo’s practice encompasses installation, digital projection, plant propagation and care, assemblage and photography. For Jo, art-making is a relational act: a means through which notions of agency (self-expression) and communion (receptivity) can be enacted and reiterated. Through this philosophical and intimate approach to art making, Jo engages with her chosen materials as agents with whom the outcome of the artwork is playfully negotiated. Though this process is not always oriented toward an audience, Jo invites others to connect through her documentation, and through publicly exhibited works that often continue to evolve throughout their duration. Some projects are created collaboratively or include audience participation. 

Since graduating in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts (Creative Arts) at the University of Newcastle Jo has exhibited her work in group and solo exhibitions in Newcastle, Melbourne and Sydney. She was a finalist in the 2013 Newcastle Emerging Art Prize and in 2024 completed a Master of Fine Art with Distinction from RMIT, Melbourne.