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 1.5 million humans.

Joanna makes work that spans writing, words, film (still and moving image), sculpture and installation, combining and exploration of textures, colour with an interest in resonance and connection to human and non-human experiences - exploring with curiosity and inquisitiveness. She is an advocate and participant of Art in Recovery. Joanna creates work that explores liminal spaces and the unseen, often unspoken emotions attached to people, places, and things.

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. 
Her latest piece - more will be revealed, starts the colouration and link to communication.