About Jordanna Greaves
Artist | Curator | Co-Founder Grow Hackney, Alice Billing House & Grow Plymouth | Cultural Strategy & Adaptive Reuse
Email: greavesjordanna@gmail.com
ARTIST CV
Jordanna Greaves
Born 1979, Lives and works between Plymouth and London
I am an artist working across installation, digital media and spatial cultural practice. My work explores the oscillation between the psychic strain of life within a neoliberal spectacle and the persistent longing for other, more regenerative futures.
Rather than producing discrete objects, I construct conditions. Through adaptive reuse, digital platforms, public programming and relational governance, I create durational environments that operate as living artworks, spaces where art, community, hospitality and economic systems intersect.
My practice draws on socially engaged art, feminist systems thinking and ecological inquiry. I am interested in how infrastructure itself can become artistic material, how power circulates through space, who participates, and how collective life might be reconfigured from within the structures we inherit.
Education
2019
Re-tuning to Nature: Exploring Ecopsychology
Centre for Ecotherapy
2015–2017
MA Fine Art (Distinction)
The Cass, London Metropolitan University
1999–2002
BSc Social Science – Psychology (2:1)
Leeds Beckett University
Selected Projects, Essays & Residencies
Ongoing
Grow Hackney (London)
Co-founder & Curator — An ongoing, artist-led regenerative cultural project developed through adaptive reuse, integrating art, music, hospitality and community programming. Operating as a durational public work exploring cultural infrastructure and collective space.
Alice Billing House (Stratford, London)
Co-founder & Strategic Lead — A heritage-led studio and cultural workspace developed in collaboration with Creative Land Trust. A long-term infrastructural artwork examining affordability, stewardship and public programming within urban regeneration contexts.
Grow Plymouth (Devon)
Co-founder & Curator — An evolving artist-led studio and cultural space integrating live programming, community engagement and sustainable practice. A durational exploration of place-based regeneration and ecological-cultural infrastructure.
2023–2024
Visiting Artist
Fine Art Department, University of Plymouth
Climate (Re)Considered
Collaboration with University of Plymouth, Sustainable Earth Institute and Low Carbon Devon exploring climate, systems and local economies.
2021
Grow Change
Public programme exploring ethical economics, community resilience, gentrification, education beyond institutions and climate action (including digital series Grow at Home).
Curation of sustainability-focused community workshops including canalside floating planter installation, herb planting and reclaimed-material furniture-making.
2019
Essay:
Neoliberalism is the Root of Our Personal and Environmental Illness
Centre for Ecotherapy (Unpublished)
Curation of V&A Lates at Grow Hackney, showcasing artists reclaiming space amidst rapid urban change.
2018
Island of Ground + Water
Mentoring students from Bartlett UCL Architecture School to build sustainable installations.
2017
Essay:
Abolish Alienation
Exploring William Morris, the Situationists and Banksy in relation to capitalist alienation.
Artist in Residence
Sydenham Gardens (2015–2017)
Is It About You? Is It About Me? Is It About Us?
Collaboration with Moé Sekiya examining authorship and cultural identity.
2016
Your Work Here
Peabody Trust, Hackney Wick
Open House
Balfron Tower, London
Artist Connects Collective Occupation
Islington Arts Factory
Selected Exhibitions & Installations
2025
Challenging Inertia — Group residency and exhibition
Grow Plymouth
2024
DIY Digital — Plymouth Art Weekender
Grow Plymouth
2023
Promise Me Utopia: Yesterday’s Idea of Today’s Tomorrow
Lea Bridge Library, London
2022
Studio Projections — #DIYEXPERIMENTS (British Art Show 9 Fringe)
Large-scale projection and film installation onto the Grow Plymouth building
2021
Open Fragments — Online exhibition
Pragmata Collective
2019
Let Battle Commence (with Peter Bennett)
The Lift Gallery, Hackney Wick
Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad — Chinese Year of the Pig
Elements Gallery, Leicester Square
2018
Nothing to Hear Here — Interactive installation (with UCL)
Collusion — Experimental spoken word & performance festival
Grow Hackney
DollyOlli Open Studios, Hackney Wick
2017
DISCO TERMINI — Other Worlds (MA Show)
The Cass, London
— Curated by Gavin Turk
Hackney WickED Open Studios
The Image Obsession Question
Bob and Roberta Smith’s Studio, Ramsgate
51% Remember Her — International Women’s Day
Tower Gallery, London
Passing Through (with Ali Bahreini)
The Cass, London
2016
Is It About You? Is It About Me? Is It About Us? (with Moé Sekiya)
Photomonth, Darnley Gallery, London
Hackney WickED Open Studios
Stour Space, London