Joanne Tinker's work is on permanent display at London's Science Museum alongside work from Vivian Westwood. Her artworks have been selected for the Royal Academy’s Annual Summer Exhibition numerous times, and her Goblets artworks are on show at the New York Museum of Art and Design, as well as in the White Rabbit Collection, Sydney. In 2010 Tinker was recommended in The Miami Herald as one of the top picks for Art Miami / Basel Art week

Born in the UK, but raised in Johannesburg, South Africa, Joanne Tinker remembers collecting fireflies, clearly the urge to collect stayed with her. Tinker later trained to work with metal and when she returned to the UK she earned a first class honours degree in Silversmithing and Jewellery from Birmingham University. After graduating she found herself looking for alternatives to work with other than traditional silver and gold, turning to found objects and tempted in by the lurid, saturated colours of delicate sweet wrappers, foils and other discarded materials, she set about collecting these modest materials that would later become stunning works of art.