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Emma Johnson
United Kingdom
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449 pieces
Artist highlights
- Art Fair Participant
- Prizewinner
- Residency Participant
- Works on commission
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Artwork details
- Medium : Collage on Paper
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Framing :
Cardboard
Framing on request - Dimensions : 11.8x11.8in
About this artwork
“Hemisphere #18" is a multi-layered image inspired by globe projections, cut from maps and old school atlases.
Fascinated by the geometry, colours and printing styles of these old maps, and relishing in the “accidental” (the image printed on the reverse side of the map is often used, introducing exciting and unexpected new dimensions), she has cut multiple layers and pathways into the maps to transform the originals into new objects. The maps are… still recognisable objects retaining glimpses of the familiar, yet as functional items they have been rendered useless - creating overlapping land masses, shifting continents and poles, tilting latitudes and longitudes: continental drift.
Fascinated by the geometry, colours and printing styles of these old maps, and relishing in the “accidental” (the image printed on the reverse side of the map is often used, introducing exciting and unexpected new dimensions), she has cut multiple layers and pathways into the maps to transform the originals into new objects. The maps are… still recognisable objects retaining glimpses of the familiar, yet as functional items they have been rendered useless - creating overlapping land masses, shifting continents and poles, tilting latitudes and longitudes: continental drift.
Emma Johnson
United Kingdom
Credentials
- Art Fair Participant
- Prizewinner
- Residency Participant
- Works on commission
« Using obsessive collection, categorization, fragmentation, and juxtaposition of objects, images, and text to explore recurring themes of identity, duality, alienation, and contradiction within the human condition. »
Emma Johnson is an award-winning artist based in the United Kingdom who has exhibited her works nationally, as well as in Ukraine, the United States, Australia, Singapore, and China. Her artistic expression takes form through reconstructed maps and other paper imagery. Through the deconstruction and transformation of recycled materials and the ambiguity of communication, Johnson creates compelling, complex, and reconstituted new objects.
