Photo credit Gabriel Clark, 2017
Contact ->>> joshuasantospirito@gmail.com
Feel free to mail me for illustration, curation, festivals, murals, performance, public speaking, publications, music composition, workshops, art practice mentoring or any other art projects and advice.
Many of my illustration clients are NGO’s, CSO’s, universities, individuals and with them I create comics, infographics or illustration works that help convey their stories.
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Art ~> Represented by Penny Contemporary in Nipaluna/Hobart.
New graphic novel out now through Scribe Publications ~> The Islands Where We Left Our Ancestors
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Joshua (he/him) is a multimedia artist, musician and graphic novelist living in nipaluna on palawa land, lutruwita (Tasmania). He is one half of the beloved experimental classical band Bing/Santospirito and is known for creating cross-media performances for art festivals.
His expansive art practice, which includes painting, performance, music, sound, comics and writing, often focuses on identity, place and modern Australia. His writing, editing, comics and illustrations have appeared in the Monthly, Island Magazine, Meanjin and The Suburban Review. Audiovisual performances created by Josh have been featured at festivals such as Mona Foma, Dark Mofo, Something Somewhere Film Festival and the Jogja Biennale. He has collaborated as with visuals and live performance on projects by many other artists as well.
Joshua is the author of graphic novels Swallows Part One (2015) and cult favourite The Long Weekend in Alice Springs (2013) which won the Chief Minister’s non-fiction book award in the Northern Territory. His third graphic novel will be published in 2024 through Scribe Publications.
He is the long-term convenor of the The Small Press Zine Fair in Hobart. Recently Joshua worked with Island magazine as their guest curator for their graphic narratives program (The Nanna Project). In the past Joshua was co-director of the Comic Art Workshop, (2019-2023) was also the Director of Her Majesty’s Favourite Really Great Graphical Festival (2014-16).
Having performed his unusual brand of music live since 2004 with many albums under his belt, Joshua’s performances have captured audiences across Australia and Europe. Since 2019 Joshua has worked alongside violinist Natalya Bing in their collaboration Bing/Santospirito to create LP’s, theatre compositions and create audiovisual concerts for major festivals with their trademark immersive improvisations.
Josh was a registered nurse from 2005-2019 working primarily in community mental health with strong experience in both of the specialist areas of remote and forensic mental health.
Media
Review in The Conversation ~ Sept ‘24
Interview with SBS Italian (podcast) ~ July ‘24
Review by Books+Publishing ~ July ‘24
Interview with Alia Graphic ~ July ‘24
8cc interview (Mparntwe / Alice Springs) ~ July ‘24
The Hobart Magazine interview ~ July ‘24
2019 - Storygraph in Art Guide
2018 – The Monthly Magazine – article about Uti Kulintjaku project – by Kim Mahood
2018 – Sydney Review of Books – by Barry Hill
2018 – Text Journal article – by Ronnie Scott and Elizabeth MacFarlane
2016 – Radio National Art and Books review of Swallows.
2016 – Article in Il Globo
2016 – Alice Springs News MONA FOMA performance review
2016 – Real Time Arts MONA FOMA performance review
2015 – SBS Radio interview about Swallows
2015 – Carlton Football Club Website article about Swallows
2014 The Fertile Space Between Us, by Kieran Finnane
2014 NT Read Non-Fiction Book Award, May 2014
2014 Kieran Finnane writes on What I’m Reading for the Meanjin blog
2014 ComicOz Award for Best Australian Original Comic Book for 2013
2013 The Australian Newspaper major review of “The Long Weekend”
2013 Readings Bookstore – review of “The Long Weekend”
2013 ComicOz review of “The Long Weekend”
2013 Review from the Alice Springs News of “The Long Weekend”
2013 Alice Online article about “The Long Weekend”