Joy Gerrard is an artist based between London and Dublin. The common theme of current work is a concern with space,
site, politics and a visual response to the city as a site of transformation. She looks at ‘the crowd’ framed by urban space
and seeks to address some fundamental questions about the changing political face of the city globally. Recent work
includes large format drawings of crowds forming to mourn and protest and miniature animation and video works that
comment on the politics of congregation and dispersal in urban spaces. This project is also presented as photographs
and sculptures; these works are made using the architectural model as a starting point and are exhibited installationally.

This work is informed by a two-year practice based research MPhil. Project; Space, Multitude and Fear: Visualising the
Urban Crowd as a Site of Transformation completed at the RCA, London in July 2007.