Joanna Vestey (b. 1972) is a British artist based in London known for her images of absence. Her work increasingly spans both painting and photography exploring fundamental structures of perception, media, and memory.  She says of this:  “I am increasingly interested in making ‘images’, seeking to collapse traditional boundaries between mediums to make work that is less rigidly either ‘photographic’ or ‘painted’ in both its creation and outcomes.”  Since 2015, she has been developing ways to make work ‘beyond’ using traditional methods of photographing experimenting with long durational exposures and visualising sound and data-scapes.

She has recently completed an MA in Painting at the RCA.  Previously she studied photography at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design|UAL and at Bezalel Academy, Jerusalem, an MA in Social Anthropology and Development from SOAS and a PhD completed 
at the European Centre for Documentary Research; Conditions of Knowledge: Photographic Materiality and the Process of Order. Her work is held by The National Portrait Gallery, The Bodleian Library and The V&A Museum. It has been exhibited and published widely. Books include London in Lockdown by Hoxton Mini Press (2022) and the monograph, Custodians, which was published by Ashmolean Press (2015). Her work has appeared in; CNN, 
The Financial Times, Le Monde, The Telegraph, BJP, Aesthetica Magazine, Uncertain States.  Recent exhibitions include, The Fitzrovia Chapel, (2024) Messum’s Gallery (2023), Format Festival, (2023) The Royal Photographic Society (2023), The South Bank Centre (2019), OffShoot Gallery, London (2020).

Joanna’s practice has been featured and reviewed on Sky, CNN, BBC, BBC radio Arts live with Will Gompertz, Exposed Live at the Ashmolean Museum and The BBC Breakfast Show with Gaby Roslin. Her most recent work ‘Solace’ has been nominated for Prix Pictet 2025. She is the recipient of several awards and bursaries including from Arts Council England (2024), 
She was winner of TPA/RPS Environmental Bursary (2022) and has been shortlisted for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and the RA Summer Exhibition.

She is a trustee of At The Bus and is an advisory board member of the Ian Parry Award. Her work is represented by Barron Art Agency.