Sandra Johnston
Sunday 17 October
Toynbee Studios
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Sandra Johnston is a visual artist from Northern Ireland, working in the areas of site-responsive performance actions, installations and drawing. Her artworks have often proposed temporal approaches to marking the aftermath of trauma, particularly in relation to ideas of testimony and empathetic communication. Currently, she is MFA Course Leader at Northumbria University, England.
Johnston’s performance actions are experiential in nature, assembled and improvised using mainly found objects. Actions arise as propositions, whereby, audiences directly observe gradual accumulations of images and the emergence of latent relationships. Gestures are offered as provisional behaviours, existing like relics salvaged from a forgotten moment – flawed, inexact and silent. The intention is to create contemplative spaces out of everyday occurrances and to search for clarity in the present moment.
Image credit: 2016 CONTINGENT, solo performance and Untitled, collaborative work with Dominic Thorpe & Michelle Browne as part of Border Crossings part1, commissioned by Mary Knights & Michelle Browne at SASA Gallery, Adelaide, Australia