Artworks are first available to purchase in person at the exhibition held from 4-10 Oct at King George Square.
Online sales will open following the exhibition.
Rhi Johnson is an artist and educator based in Queensland, Australia who works primarily in the fields of printmaking, painting and artist books.
She is interested in the formation of everyday narratives and how these can be disrupted or subverted visually. Increasingly, she has become interested in lived experiences and how these mediate everyday encounters, reactions and interactions.
In observing these variances, Rhi has sought to incorporate and navigate lived experiences of anxiety, depression and neurodiversity through arts practice.
While not overt through her visual practice, these frameworks are explored through subject matter which may be of personal comfort or fixation, mediated over through extended art making processes.
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Reprieve deals with urban exploration, abandoned or neglected spaces, and public detritus. The site depicted is of personal interest and comfort, where I contemplate human narratives and interactions from a distance.
The intention of this work is to visually investigate a location that exists in plain sight while being overlooked for an extended period of time. The urban status of the scene infers human intervention and related intention. Its decay references a distance between planned function, and neglect or abandonment.