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A stunning collection of paintings, sculpture and decorative art from the 13th century to the present day.
John Moores 2010
This exhibition is being held at the Walker Art Gallery, 18 September 2010 - 3 January 2011
2009,
Oil on linen,
65 x 45.2 cm
There are many levels of reality that are picked apart through diverse disciplines such as philosophy, art and the novel. Within painting, and specifically portraiture, there are painted realities and painted fictions; fictitious paintings and fictional realities.
Since moving to a new studio and ditching all my previous work (except a small quasi-religious
painting of a bearded man with a silver platter of fish balanced on his head)
I bought my first easel and sat down to paint for the first time. When I wasn't painting
I was writing and characters developed in my paintings through the writing of short
stories, which I may or may not get around to publishing.
Painting and the portrait have rich histories that cannot be refuted yet can always be
undermined, both of which may or may not be good things. I attempt to hover between
the two.
Lee Johnson was born in Wiltshire in
1975. He studied at Leeds Metropolitan
University 1994-97 and Central Saint
Martins College of Art and Design
London 2000-01. Group shows include 'Lexmark European Art Prize' Air Gallery
London 2002, 'Narcissism: Self-Love to
Death' GOZOcontemporary Malta 2003,
'Scenes in Perspective' Artower Agora
Athens 2003 and 'High Risk Painting'
Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art
Sunderland 2006. A recent solo show
was at 'The Free Art Fair 3' Barbican
London 2009. A short story 'The Same'
in a collection called 'Thirteen Stories' was
launched at Whitechapel Project Space
London 2005 (Miller & McAfee Press).