Jo Milne is a visual artist who works between Edinburgh, London and Barcelona. Awarded a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Barcelona in 2016, her research focusses on the methodologies used by scientists, artists and visionaries to visualize the invisible. This research has led to collaborations with programmers and scientists at CitiLab (Cornella), the VHIR, Barcelona and the Chemistry Department of the University of Barcelona and more recently at the Museu Moli de Paper in Capellades.

Her consideration of the visualisation of the invisible has led her to form part of the research groups IMARTE (UB), ARE (Art, Resilience and Economy (Independent) and the Visionary Women Research Group led by Dr Pilar Bonet. .

She teaches visual creation at EINA, Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art in Barcelona and has lectured at the University of Barcelona, Winchester School of Art, Duncan of Jordanstone, Europaïsche Kunstakademie Trier and MassArt (Boston). Her work has received awards from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation (Canada), the RSA, Arena Foundation, AENA and has undertaken residencies at the Museu d’art de Sabadell and the Irish Museum of Modern Art.

As the 2020 Artist in Residence at the Institute of Research of Biomedicine (IRB) in Barcelona her current research looks at the visualisation of the molecular world, exploring the possibilities of contagion between scientific and visionary practices; a research project supported by the Generalitat de Catalonia.

Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including solo shows at Fundació Vila Casas (Barcelona), Museu d’Art de Sant Pol (Sant Pol), La Sala (Vilanova), Can Manyé (Alella) and Talbot Rice Art Centre (Edinburgh), Widener Gallery (EEUU), Forum (Switzerland).

She participated in science & art communication projects including dance & coastal geology, electronic music & ecology, photography & marine sciences; and neurosciences & visual art collection.

{Her current interests also include social inclusion in/through science communication.}