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Artist Statement:
Contemporary Photography and
Art Gallery- a Contemporary
Art Practice by Artist, Andrew
Johnson.
Fine Art Background
Andrew Johnson graduated from
Duncan of Jordanstone College
of Art, Dundee, in 1992, with
a BA (Hons) and an MA in Fine
Art. He has exhibited widely
around the Uk, Ireland and
America, in solo and group
shows.
Artist's Statement
Art and creativity in people's
consciousness is all things to
all people and a profound
reflection of man's
relationship with life. It
facilitates an intimate
process of communication with
self and the world we build
around us, reflecting a
panopoly of memories and
emotions, drives and intents.
Art is a confluence of chance,
observation and memory,
shaping our process of
self-individuation through
change and renewal, learning
and understanding. This
ongoing stream of creative
experience explores the
mysterious, the sublime, the
unexpected, the often obscure
and otherworldly, bringing
ephemeral moments of profound
meaning into being. Art is a
celebration of life that acts
as a portal into the minutiae
of life's mechanics....
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Artist Exhibitions:
Exhibitions
2006 (June) Eigse 06 -
Utopias. Carlow Arts Festival,
Ireland.
2006 (Feb) Pallas Heights: By
Diverse Means We Arrive at the
Same End - Dublin Docklands.
2005 (Nov) New York
Independent International Film
& Video Festival.
2005 (Nov) Triskel
Arts-Terminal. Cork, Ireland.
European City of Culture show.
2005 (Jul) CCrevolver "Live
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Andrew Johnson Biography:
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Fine Art - Artists Biography
Andrew Johnson (b-1965) was born in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales and completed his secondary education in 1981 at Cyfarthfa High School, leaving school soon after completing his O level examinations to experience his place in the world. He returned to full time education in 1987 and studied a Foundation Course in Art and Design at Newport College of Art, Wales, after which he completed a B.F.A. (Hons) and M.F.A. at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee, Scotland, where he lived until 1994.
During his college years, his professional art practice was concerned with the socio-political turmoil of the declining mining industry and he spent four years working photographically alongside the miners of Taff Merthyr Colliery, South Wales, until its closure in 1992; the same mining communities that played a key role in developing the social and political structures that helped develop a sense of social justice for the nation. Their community spirit and identity underwent massive social upheaval, influences that were to reshape the life of a generation of people. A large photographic installation, which was widely exhibited nationally, provided a public arena to share his views.
Empathy and humanity became a major foundation of his photographic practice. He co-ordinated a programme of workshops in a Young Offenders Institution, an Alcholics Rehabilitation Unit, and was commissioned to undertake further social projects that explored an intrinsic sense of estrangement, social belonging and community, in a new architectural model of an elderly folks home.
He spent many hours daily practising the skill of archery which was intrinsic to his creative practice for a number of years.
Wales became his home again in the mid 1990's. Creative drives were less anchored in the community and his work became more introverted. He subsidised his practice through part-time teaching in Further Education, Community Education and The Probation Service. Photograpy, fine art painting and collage, regular exhibitions of his work and an artists' residency programme helped continue the creative momentum.
Stepping onwards to totally new experiences, leaving behind a teaching position, he spent fourteen months travelling Central America, 1996 - 1997.
It was a unique place with diverse cultural wealth, political tensions and the histories of major civilisations that were still a mythical part of daily life. A wide spread abuse of human rights that politics frequently ignored was met with the resilience and authenticity of the local peoples that strove towards resolving political fairness and inclusion. Death was a regular price to pay in their fight for justice. A small, unobtrusive camera recorded a panopoly of experiences which were to become a large body of photographic work upon his return to Wales in late 1997.
He spent a long struggle with personal trauma after a near fatal motorcycle accident in 1998 which side-shifted his creative practice for some years.
Moving to Ireland in late 2002, he established himself as a core member of a prominent artist's collective and continued to work with painting, video, photography, and multimedia video works that incorporated sound, text and narration. He set up a successful, Live Art, Music and Multimedia Event that ran seven live-events between 2002 and 2005, to great acclaim, and won funding from Cork 2005, European City of Culture.
He now lives in the U where he continues with his creative enterprises of which collaboration is an important element of his practice.
Work processes for him have a natural focus on transitional and intermediate spaces, within the context of a diversity of environments.
He is open to discuss proposals for collaborative ventures and creative projects.
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