Emma Stone-Johnson
Her marks are slurred punctuation; their residue forming gullies and small pools and worlds.
Emma Stone-Johnson's work asks the question: "what would it be like to walk through a museum of melted paintings?" Throughout her oeuvre, colour seems to drip and split. It seeps and oozes onto the gallery floor. Her marks are slurred punctuation; their residue forming gullies and small pools and worlds. In Stone-Jonhson's painted world the floor would be a distorted ocean, a "world lung."
As a child, Stone-Johnson remembers drawing her own cats and being mystified by their green eyes, pink paw pads and grey fur - a grey so complex, a colour that contained all colours. Thus, for Stone-Johnson, the act of painting is an act of colour coding; an archaeological forensic investigation into her own psyche.
Stone-Johnson describes her studio practice as 'chancy.' Throughout her work she questions colour and investigates pigments; constructing new brushes and writing. Her brushstrokes appear as if out of nowhere like on an old blurry 90s TV screen. Her works are "oversized letters, they are billboards, they are satellites. Hunting."
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B. 1982, Brighton, Based in Brighton, UK
Education
2022 Royal College of Art MA Painting 2022
2004 Chelsea College of Art BA Textile Design
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Flexed Sky, Glittered Earth Makasiini Contemporary, Finland’
2021 Solo Presentation, Pontone Gallery, London
Fairs
2023 Untitled Art, Miami Beach, Makasiini Contemporary, Booth B16
2023 Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, Booth E08, Asia Art Center, Taipei
2022 Chicago Expo, Booth 366, Pontone Gallery, Chicago
Group Exhibitions
2024 Beyond Boundaries, Guts Gallery, London
2023 Never the right time, Commune Gallery, Vienna
2023 On the Voyage, Art Asia Centre, Beijing
2023 About Art, Makasiini Contemporary, Finland
2023 Abstract, Taymour Grahne Projects, London
2023 Away, VinVin gallery, Vienna
2023 The Fores Project, London’ Residency Presentation
2022 Natasha Arselan Galley’ online presentation I feel everything all at once
2022 BUFFER, Guts Gallery, London
2022 Royal College of Art Degree Show, London
2022 Pontone & Albemarle Galleries, London
2021 The Auction Collective Group Show 50x£50' Soho Revue, London
Awards
2021 Chelsea Arts Club Materials & Research
Residencies
2023 The Fores Project, London