Born in Northern Ireland and currently based in Ramsgate, Joni Belaruski can usually be found either making art or making music.
Her work celebrates the weird and the wonderful, the dark and the silly, drawing inspiration from pop culture to pornography to David Attenborough, and fishing around within the dark depths of the human psyche where dreams and nightmares reside... Topped off with a healthy touch of gallows humour.
A former Fine Art student of the University of Ulster in Belfast, Belaruski transferred to London Metropolitan in 2010. After several years in the capital, she now resides on the Kent coast, where she is perhaps best known for creating the crow artwork for rock band The Libertines, which adorns the sign outside their hotel/bar/recording studio The Albion Rooms in Margate (as well as featuring on their T-shirts and own-brand Wasteland IPA!).
She continues to exhibit regularly in London and Kent, as well as painting murals around the coast, and has had her artwork used by numerous bands as album art, including Foy Vance and the Urban Voodoo Machine. She is also the drummer for punk folk favourites ‘The Great Malarkey’, with whom she tours frequently across the UK and internationally.
Email: jonibelaruski@gmail.com
PAST EXHIBITIONS
The Unifinished Art Exhibition group show, Piefactory, Margate (2023)
Annual Holiday Mini Art Exhibit group show, Ghost Gallery, Seattle (2023)
That's just the way we are solo show, The Mascot Gallery, Ramsgate (2022)
The Wooden Box Gallery Grand Opening group show, (2021)
Viva Apocalypse solo show, The Pub, Ramsgate (2021)
Rebel Rebel solo show, Beaucatcher Salon, London (2021)
Small Wonders, group show, Well Hung Gallery, London (2021)
Isolation Nation , Online Art Fair run by DWD Exhibitions. 45% of sale price goes directly to NHS Charities. (2020)
Womxn's Strike Exhibition , The Old Baths Hackney, London (2020)
The beautiful and Damned group exhibition, BSMT Space, London (2020)
Erotic Art Exhibition London, Oxo Tower Wharf, London (2019)
REAWAKENING Group Show, The Natural Room Emporium, Newtownards, Northern Ireland (2019)
Sexhibition Erotic art group show, Seespray Gallery, Hastings (2019)
5th Birthday Bash group show, Well Hung Gallery, London (2018)
Affordable Art Sale, Flaxon Ptootch, London (2018)
Group show, See Spray Gallery, Hastings (2018)
Punk Rock n Roll Group Show, Underdog Gallery, London (2018)
Monstrous! Solo show, Flaxon Ptootch, London (2018)
Jupiter Waiting for the Moon Duo show, The Beaucatcher Salon, London (2017)
Punk Rock n Roll Group Show, Underdog Gallery, London (2016)
Movement:Artworks Group show, A-Side B-Side Gallery, London (2014)
Movement:Artworks Group show, Pictorem Gallery, London (2014)
Atrocity Exhibition Group Show, The Others, London (2013)
Flaxon Ptootch Duo Show with Lupen Crook, London (2013)
A Swell in a Blue Period Group Show, Mori & Stein Gallery, London (2013)
Yeastie Girls Group show, Cultivate Gallery, London (2013)
Survival Solo Show, Hackney Trashbar, London (2012)
Art is Not just for Xmas Group show, Cultivate Gallery, London (2011)
Schism Group show, Bardens Boudoir, London (2011)
Flaxon Ptootch Group Show, London (2011)
PRESS/INTERVIEWS
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The International Artistrviews Interview
Cowling and Wilcox Featured Artist
Joyzine Interview: Extinction Rebellion
Freq Magazine Feature and Interview
Creative Fluff Magazine Feature
Joyzine Mag Flaxon Ptootch Exhibition Review
The Unexposed Magazine Issue 3 Feature (Pg.88)
Alliterati Magazine Issue Feature (Pg.69)
"Her work has savvy grit and vigour....to neglect her is to neglect the new babylon" Nina Antonia (author of 'Johnny Thunders: In Cold Blood')