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New Website!
Welcome to the new website. I have been working with the brilliant Julia Douglas to bring this site live over the last few weeks. Julia is very patient and understanding and it has been a great experience working with her. I have a few text edits to make at the moment...
Fragments of the Tay 2023
Fragments of the Tay 2023 is a community art initiative which reflects entanglements with the past, present and future. Artists Susie Dalton and Susie Johnston worked with Perthshire communities to bring together personal connections with the Tay and its tributaries...
PhD 2020 – ongoing
My current research occupies the scope of human – non-human relations through direct material encounters. I continue to be interested in exploring what objects do in a field of visual signification. Working across painting, ceramics, and sculpture I attend to...
Hidden Door
157 Reliquaries Susie Johnston & Louise Ritchie Site Specific Commission for Hidden Door Festival September 2021 157 Reliquaries was a multi-material intervention responding to the history of the gasworks and its place within the transport system of the Caledonian...
Objects of Conviction
Ginny Elston & Susie Johnston WASPS, Patriothall, Edinburgh, EH3 5AY Opening March 17 2023 6.30-8.30pm.Exhibition open Saturday 18 March, Sunday 19 March, Friday 24 March, Saturday 25 March and Sunday 26 March, 11am – 4pm. Artists Ginny Elston and Susie Johnston...
Commitment 2020-ongoing
Porcelain. The start of my PhD research project began with a walk where I live, a park I spend much of my time in. Here there are many old and beautiful oak trees which started life as an acorn containing just one seed. When a seed is germinated, a taproot is produced...