Joan Ground's art practice has been notably varied and diverse. In a career spanning 30 years, she has produced individual self contained objects, film, experimental video, solo performances, worked collaboratively with other artists and designers and participated in some major group devised theatre productions. She has been Artist-in-Residence on a number of occasions and has been awarded a number of prestigious grants.

In the early 1980's, Grounds began a major investigation into temporal processes and site specific installation which she continues to explore. Joan Grounds has had a long interest in sound as an art form and the relation of sound to the third dimension. Grounds has worked collaboratively with various artists on sound in installation, both as embodied sound and as parallel ambient sound. Collaborative projects provide a unique opportunity for Grounds to combine and maximise the interests, the expertise, and the experience she has accumulated in her career as an artist while providing the challenge and opportunity of the potential to create a new and unique formsp in the arts.

In 1994, Grounds and Wishart first explored their mutual interests in aspects of medieval culture, sound and image, and the cross overs and parallels with life and culture today in a performative installation . Since that time, they have continued their research and the development of their ideas. In 1998, they presented the first large scale prototypal interactive sound installation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Wishart and Grounds are now developing sound installations for the cities and towns where the source material for their sounds and images arose.

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