Joe Felber’s art practice is informed by cultural diversity. He has lived, worked and exhibited in more than three continents since the 1970s. He now lives in Adelaide after migrating to Sydney from Switzerland in 1980 and has spent the proceeding years living between the two continents and exhibiting in Switzerland, Germany, Cologne, Frankfurt Hamburg and New York.

In the 1990s, Joe lived in Cologne for five years as peripatetic nomad: his art practice a ‘performance’ of physical and discursive displacement. He was invited to be Artist in Residence in the international art programme at Castello di Rivara, Italy, where he was introduced to the origin of Arte Povera collection. Post 1992 his practice became interdisciplinary and acquisitive: absorbing, assembling, composing and de-composing, playing and re-playing elements from a vast collection of fragments, each a caught glimpse (a musical notation) of a moment, a movement through public/social space (the literal spaces of landscape, architecture and urbanity, and the virtual, or constructed spaces of both written and artistic syntax).