SUSIE JOHNSON
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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.
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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.
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Education
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BA Fine Art (1st class honours), Anglia Ruskin, Cambridge
Building and Architecture HNC, Hackney College, London
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Exhibitions & Festivals
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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
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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
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Creative Reactions/Pint of Science, St Barnabas, Mill Rd, Cambridge, May 2018
The Art of Relation, Cambridge, May 2018
Tense, Cambridge ArtSpace, December 2017
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Nasty Women, Cambridge Artworks, March 2017
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One Place After Another, Cambridge Artworks, October 2016
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Object Object Alison Richards Building, Cambridge July-Sept 2016
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Art Language Location, Anglia Ruskin School of Art ,October 2015
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Correspondence, Cambridge Artworks, Oct 2015
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Art Language Location, Jesus Green Lock, Cambridge & Waterstones, Cambridge, October 2014
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Cambridge Original Printmakers, , The Pitt Building, Cambridge, 27 September – 4 Oct 2014
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Cambridge UX, Churchill College, Cambridge, 2014
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Mitchums Models, Mitchums Corner, Cambridge , July 2014
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Travels from a starting point, Cambridge Artworks, Solo show, 9-11 May 2014
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Aid&Abet Open Salon, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge Feb 2013
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Artworks Studio Artists, Cambridge Artworks 2013
Britain in a Day film submission, broadcast BBC2 June 2012
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Sustainability, Nov 2012, The global Sustainability institute and Cambridge school of Art 2012
Sustainability arts student competition, 1st prize winner
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Incognito, St James School, London Nov 2011
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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.