Celia Johnson

Red Dog Stand: 214
Celia's work explores site, memory and community; her current research is centred on the post-industrial landscape of the Black Country.  Exploring the site of a former Midland's vehicle manufacturing company where her grandfather was a track fitter, and which is now an Industrial Park, she's both ghost hunter and chronicler, making work that collects traces of both the past and the present.

Interested in the intersection of public and personal legacies, the work that Celia is showing is underpinned by archival research, ideas about care in relation to work, and her own family history and memories of growing up in the Black Country.

Conceiving the original factory buildings as a spectral site, Celia has made casts of its floor in concrete, latex and porcelain, and is also exhibiting indexical paintings of industrial architecture - the shuttered doors of the individual business units and their floors, to consider family history and labour and to present the landscape of the factory as both haunted and speculative.

Celia studied at Central St Martins, Cardiff School of Art and is currently a PhD student at Birmingham School of Art.  She is a Fine Art lecturer at Hereford College of Arts and the founder/director of red dog.

Public / Private Collections

Celia's work is held in multiple private collections, in the UK and internationally.


 

 

 

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