Thursday 24 July

Les Joynes

A Place Beyond

Les will present on his series FormLAB, exhibited in Brazil. Singapore, Mongolia, South Korea, France and China. He talks about how collaboration can activate a shared mind and create new pathways towards artmaking. DSA Artist-in-Residence Les Joynes is a New York-based multimedia artist, educator and research scholar working across installation, video and socially-engaged art. His work explores how place is constructed through fieldwork, immersive environments and performative encounters and has been exhibited at galleries and museums internationally. He holds a BA (Hons) Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, an MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, and PhD from Leeds Metropolitan University. He is 2025 Research Scholar at Columbia University and explores emerging models for art education.