Contemporary Filipino Artist: Joyce Ashworth
Artwork: Figure 1A: On the Matter of Silence
Acrylic | 3 feet x 4 feet | Framed
FINALIST
20th GSIS National Art Competition 2025
ARTIST STATEMENT
Joyce Ashworth is a contemporary Filipino artist whose work focuses on abstract art and contemporary realism, exploring emotion, memory, and form through color, texture, and gesture. Her pieces vary from quiet, restrained compositions to vibrant, layered explorations, crafted through intuition and rhythm. Rather than sticking to a single mode of abstraction, her approach shifts between minimal and expressive styles, always grounded in emotional clarity.
In her exploration of contemporary realism, she reinterprets familiar objects—such as harvests, vessels, and textiles—against softened or abstracted backdrops, emphasizing atmosphere and memory over literal depiction.
Rooted in the textures of lived experience—rural memory, ritual, intimacy, and the emotional weight of everyday forms—her practice invites viewers into spaces where clarity and feeling converge, each piece a quiet offering of both form and remembrance, celebrated at the Joyce Ashworth Gallery.
PUBLISHED ARTIST
Art Association of the Philippines, Volume 1, 2023
Alphabet of Filipino Contemporary Artists, Volume 2, 2024
GSIS National Painting Competition Catalog
GSIS National Painting Competition Catalog
Official catalog of participating artists showcasing Representation and Non-Representation Artworks, covering the years 2021 - 2025.