Joanna Hartle is an Essex-based artist and creative maker from the West Midlands, known in recent times for her roles as Production Director and Executive Producer, and as a change maker across the Creative Industries, for which she was recognised as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2023.
Her work as a lighting and production designer has been seen worldwide since 1989 by an estimated 300,000 humans.

In the last few years, she has stopped hiding her art practice under a bush. She creates work that explores liminal spaces and the unseen, often unspoken emotions attached to people, places, and things.

Joanna creates work that spans writing, film (still and moving image), sculpture and installation, combining natural found objects and materials, resonance; her recent work explores the emotions of lived experience with authenticity, capturing moments exploring her relationship to the wider world as she rounds off one chapter and moves afresh back to her inquisitiveness of colour, shape and form. 

Her last piece, 'underglow' - a short experimental film, touched on themes such as time passing, sea defences and reclamation of the land by the sea, was part of the Estuary Dreams project funded by Creative Estuary and featured as part of the Estuary Festival Anthology Programme.

She is currently starting on the next exploration, returning to her first love - lighting and colour and the frequencies that can be shown through sound and vibration, underlying the exploration of how she can express her view on the world as a person with synesthesia.