Delightful Dissidence from An Uncertain Grasp (series) by Pia Johnson

Details

Retail price for the framed work is for pick-up from NERAM, Armidale. Shipping Australia-wide can be arranged and will be invoiced separately.

Year: 2024
Medium: Archival inkjet print on aluminium
Edition: 2/5+2AP
Framed size: 113 x 85cm

Description 

Delightful Dissidence is part of a larger series 'An Uncertain Grasp' which explores the house as a space of identity, belonging and shelter within the Australian bush landscape. 

Set within one of the earliest homesteads built in Macedon, I have taken the approach of 'reading rooms', where I place myself within the spaces of the home and create photographic images. Utilising my own female form, the portrait speaks to the histories – both real and imagined – of women's stories within the broader Australian cultural narrative. This series speaks to the everyday and personal as much as the universal nuances of the human experience.

Biography

Pia Johnson is a visual artist, photographer, curator and lecturer living on Djaara country, Australia. Johnson's practice is engaged in performance, transcultural identity and belonging, stemming from her mixed background of Chinese Italian-Australian descent. Her works have been awarded and exhibited across Australia and internationally and are collected in private and public collections including the National Gallery of Victoria.

Known as one of Australia's distinctive performance photography and portrait artists for over a decade, Johnson has commissions from all the major performing arts organisations in Australia. Johnson has her own podcast Out of the Frame: Conversations about Photography, which profiles contemporary photographers and artists speaking about their practice and photographic concerns today.

Johnson holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts from University of Melbourne and has a Doctorate in Fine Arts from RMIT University, where she is a lecturer and Associate Dean Photography in the School of Art.

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