EMMA JOHNSON

England

"Working mainly with installation, I use obsessive collection, categorisation, fragmentation and juxtaposition of objects, images and text to explore recurring themes of identity, duality, alienation and contradiction within the human condition."

Relativity - Brave New World (detail)
Installation 2005-6
Made in collaboration with Ann Johnson
for TARDIS international

Emma Johnson is an installation artist who lives and works in Suffolk. She exhibits regularly both in this country and abroad. After training as a painter, first at Reading University, and then at The Slade School of Fine Art, her work moved towards the manipulation of architectural space, and the use of very temporary materials to make site-specific works. Working with colleague Michael Lumb as "GRIP", In 1999 she co-curated "Sites Abroad 2" at Suffolk College, and has since exhibited in France, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, and The Ukraine, She is also a member of Asylum Studios at Bentwaters, where she is working alongside the other members in developing a regional centre for the visual arts.