Annie Johns
“Making makes, say, boxes and the boxes may be good to look at, but making always matters: so, if anything is to be made to last, it might as well be the making as the box”*
Read more“Making makes, say, boxes and the boxes may be good to look at, but making always matters: so, if anything is to be made to last, it might as well be the making as the box”*
Read moreAs a Fine Art Photographer my work often relates to personal conflicts and human frailties.
Read moreI have tried to undermine the authority of the gestural mark.
Read moreLightness fragility and ephemerality are recurring themes in my practice.
Read moreI am an audiovisual artist and composer. My mainly abstract works are meditative environments as explorational spaces of aesthetic concepts. They examine microtonality, timbre, texture, colour and the self-similarity of image and sound, as well as the indeterminacy of change.
Read moreFor me, painting must operate independently of fashion if it is to make a meaningful statement.
Read moreMy art practice is a form of socially engaged portraiture and involves filming people in their place of work.
Read moreHannah Luxton makes paintings inspired by the natural sublime and the late 18th Century Romantic notion that a divine order resides within raw nature.
Read moreMy work concerns the corporeal and all the contrasting and conflicting aspects inherent; how bodies are sensual, beautiful, ugly, damaged, idealised, sexual, abject, gendered, delicate.
Read moreIn 1991 at the Triangle International Artists Workshop in New York State I had the opportunity to use Interference Colour, this was when, this new artists medium was not available in the UK.
Read moreOver the years I have developed a focus on the material evidence of the interaction between city dwellers and their built environment.
Read moreWith a background of unknown forces and the mysterious chaos of the universe, the world in which we exist has rules imposed to define our society. We ourselves then impose our own boundaries, rules, moralities, guidelines by which we live: to make us safe.
Read moreWords add little to paintings. They should present their own case.
Read moreI work with photography, video and painting.
Read moreSince 1994 I have been exploring a series of inter-related issues, which takes as a fundamental question: how can painting embrace decoration to disclose a narrative of loss and dislocation?
Read moreMy images begin in the dark and empty corners of abandoned places. Travel has become a big part of my imagery and I’ve seen a lot more of the world since taking photography.
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