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Welcome to the official blog of Joanna Neary, where you can catch up on Jo’s bewildered world past, present and looming. Mainly, this blog consists of scanned pages from her sketchbook with a running commentary, dashed off between duties, work and other hobbies. As well as banging on about art, there’s also past gigs, and music, such as the one about being interviewed for Prog Magazine in 2019, which led to some delightful exchanges with fellow nerds. It was all very civil, even when Jo had to admit she’d got a Frank Zappa fact wrong.
Curious People: Explaining the dolphin at Nine Lessons
Even though the Nine Lessons shows by Cosmic Shambles Network, are some of the most diverse, inspiring and bonkers nights I have ever had the pleasure of joining in with, when I was onstage at Nine Lessons For Curious People at King’s Place in London last December, doing this character, my Dolphin who talks about […]
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School Run, Sweets And Swears.
A Family Portrait. School Run, Sweets and Swears. Laddie was livid this morning because I wouldn’t let him have sweets for breakfast. He punched a pillow and angrily muttered words that weren’t swearing because he knows that’d be overstepping the mark. He didn’t even use the D-word. Last week he asked if he could tell […]
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5th November 2021 Newsletter / Tickets for autumn shows
Hello you lot. This year has been about getting back into being a theatrical-comedy horse with five different live shows packed into various suitcases and ready to go After weeks away from home, eating too much and washing too little, all I want for Christmas is some homemade hay and a newly-plaited tail. But first… […]
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All About Celia And Friends. Tune In, Turn Up and Drop Scones.
Attention. The first episode was supposed to include a recipe for sago pudding, but it got mislaid in the library. If found please pop through the letterbox at 169 Acacia Avenue, Lower Upping, Toxborough, CT16 4NL.
Read moreClearing out Kondo Style continued.. 2019
Here are some other pictures from my year so far. I really like the Marie Kondo method and Shinto and all that, but I am also doing comedy about it, though I’ve had to draw the line at doing an impression. (I did have one but it was vetoed by my audience member. I am […]
Read moreJo Blogs ‘Showtime Guide’ Guide
Dear Fan* I’ve been everso busy with my writing and here’s the proof. Me and George Egg did a vaguely food/bread themed show last Tuesday called Jo Neary Kneads An Audience and George Egg Has Something To Prove. This is the Show Time Guide we made to give away. If you’d like us to do […]
Read moreJo Blogs Tries Harder with Drawing and Colouring In
My sketchbooks are exactly that, sketches attempting to capture moments and times I don’t want to forget and lists of things to do or have done and slightly insulting records which I have to clear with my family before posting. Anyway, here are the nearest examples I have of commissions or finished bits of work. […]
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