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Super Shanty
Super Shanty
Sawney Bean
Sawney Bean
Bike Pyramid
Bike Pyramid
Ghostage
Ghostage
Assemblage (A5 collage)
Assemblage (A5 collage)
Swimmers (screenprint)
Swimmers (screenprint)
paisano chicken hut
paisano chicken hut
Trots (A5 screenprint and watercolour)
Trots (A5 screenprint and watercolour)

Jamie Johnson

Illustrator

 

A dreamlike atmosphere often provides a starting point for my work, focusing on a subtle yet surreal aspect of an everyday narrative. Drawing on historical fragments, an aspect of a place, moment in time or character provides me with an initial idea to work from and reinterpret. I get satisfaction from going off on tangents, allowing the imagery and idea forming a piece to develop as I go.

 

Regardless of the medium being used, the appropriation of found materials allows me to recontextualise my current interests and influences into a piece, which have recently included primitive architecture, oddball communities and elements of folklore. I include collaged elements to drawn pieces in order to reiterate the idea of resonating an aspect of the past. This can take form in a tiny shard of old paper, to a frottaged texture or three-dimensional object.

 

My degree show consisted of a retrospective study of a diverse cultural space – Bristo Square in Edinburgh, where I grew up skateboarding. It became a documentation of a variety of the characters that inhabited the square, as well as aspects of the architecture and dynamics the space. Utilising personal memory, imagination and salvaged materials, I attempted to reimagine the landscape and its many idiosyncratic features through a series of artists books and collages.

 

Jamie-johnson.co.uk

 

info@jamie-johnson.co.uk

 

Locations and categories

Location All > United Kingdom > Edinburgh
Categories All > Visual Art > Collagist
All > Visual Art > Comic Book Artist
All > Visual Art > Illustrator

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