Johanna Lynch

Johanna Lynch (1997. Newcastle) is an Australian environmentalist and artist of Irish descent 

based on Awabakal and Wonnarua Country, with an interdisciplinary output spanning poetry, 

video, digital and print media, installation, sculpture and performance. 

Since 2018, Jo has been engaged in community organising in the Hunter and coal mining 

regions across NSW for environmental and social justice. Both her creative and activist 

practices interrogate modes of entanglement and collective response to the intersecting 

climate, ecological and social crises unfolding in contemporary Australia. 

The nexus of nature, labour and culture guide Jo's injury, and the transformative effect of 

extractivist industry on bodies, ecosystems, identities and politics in her places of origin 

provide raw material for creative exploration and political expression. Jo is interested in the 

reclamation and transmission of intergenerational knowledge, and acts of individual and 

collective revival and resistance in response to cultural dispossession and poly-crisis. 

Jo holds a Diploma and Advanced Diploma of Visual Art from Hunter Art School - TAFE (2015) 

and a Bachelor of Fine Art (Distinction) from the University of Newcastle (2017).