Joy Gerrard is an Irish born artist, based in London.
Gerrard's work represents the complex multiplicity of human and societal relationships. Systems of relations between crowds, architecture and the built environment has been the thematic centre of her practice for the past ten years. Taking the form of drawings, film, sculptures and photographic images, she has used diverse media to invoke the ecstasy of communication, movement and democratic empowerment that exists in mass occupation of urban space. At the same time, she acknowledges the dystopian potential of these spaces and relations: the accumulation of risk, contestation, surveillance and control.