SUSIE JOHNSON
Susie Johnson is an artist living and working in Cambridge, UK
Her artistic interests are diverse but always circle back to interlink as recognisably belonging to a set at some level. Her works often involve exploring simple elements to create new associations, complexity and dynamism. She revels in dissembling order, diverting paths and offering choices. Exploration of the elemental drawn line has under-pinned many of the works; how we manipulate this artificial device to relay information through readable forms is a key theme. The use of other media, including sculpture and prints, develops simultaneously along parallel paths and her projects often embrace language.
The philosophy of identity and the tension between nomothetic and idiographic views of the world run through her projects. Attempts at ownership, signposted through representations of collections and imagined taxonomies are a favourite trope. A lover of games Susie invites the audience to find the relationships, between images and objects that on face value may seem unconnected.
Education
BA Fine Art (1st class honours), Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge
Building and Architecture HNC, Hackney College, London
Exhibitions & Festivals
Immersions: into the river cam, Robinson College, Cambridge, 22-26 June 2022
Light Work, Cambridge Artworks, 25-27 March 2022
Constellation 18, a group exhibition made in isolation, Cambridge Artworks
1st - 18th April 2021
CamCRAG 'Home' exhibition, Michaelhouse Centre, Trinity St, Cambridge
10-29 June 2019
Creative Reactions/Pint of Science, St Barnabas, Mill Rd, Cambridge May 2019
A Raid On The Inarticulate, The Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, London, November 2018
Creative Reactions/Pint of Science, St Barnabas, Mill Rd, Cambridge, May 2018
The Art of Relation, Cambridge, May 2018
Tense, Cambridge ArtSpace, December 2017
Nasty Women, Cambridge Artworks, March 2017
One Place After Another, Cambridge Artworks, October 2016
Object Object Alison Richards Building, Cambridge July-Sept 2016
Art Language Location, Anglia Ruskin School of Art ,October 2015
Correspondence, Cambridge Artworks, Oct 2015
Art Language Location, Jesus Green Lock, Cambridge & Waterstones, Cambridge, October 2014
Cambridge Original Printmakers, , The Pitt Building, Cambridge, 27 September – 4 Oct 2014
Cambridge UX, Churchill College, Cambridge, 2014
Mitchums Models, Mitchums Corner, Cambridge , July 2014
Travels from a starting point, Cambridge Artworks, Solo show, 9-11 May 2014
Aid&Abet Open Salon, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge Feb 2013
Artworks Studio Artists, Cambridge Artworks 2013
Britain in a Day film submission, broadcast BBC2 June 2012
Sustainability, Nov 2012, The global Sustainability institute and Cambridge school of Art 2012
Sustainability arts student competition, 1st prize winner
Incognito, St James School, London Nov 2011
Anglia Ruskin University School of Art 2010-2013
Student led exhibitions in and around Cambridge and the university:
Uncovered, How to build a sandcastle, Simpatico, Restricted area, A muse, Heterotopia, Twenty-four and Kings Street.