Manchester
School of Art
MA Show
2013
Fri 27 September —
Sun 13 October
10.00—16.00hrs
An exhibition of work
by postgraduate
students of —
- Architecture & Urbanism
- Art As Environment
- Design
- Design & Art Direction
- Filmmaking
- Fine Art
- Landscape Architecture
- Media Arts
- Photography
- Textiles
- Three Dimensional Design
- Visual Culture
Alice May Johnson
Alice Johnson's body of work focuses on the nature of people, from portraits and behavioural patterns, to community projects and the societies they create.
Her work ranges from two-dimensional wall pieces to installations of 3D objects using both machine and hand embroidery. In her latest body of work she has explored a path that is more personal to her own life. After loosing a close friend and her grandmother in the space of a year, she found that memories and unexpected objects, which contained or awoke them, became important when relating to loss.
She has turned personal belongings and otherwise simple or trivial objects into delicate creations that mirror human fragility, creating a shrine-like experience to celebrate those departed in our own journey.
These fabric echoes of physical objects speak implicitly of the memories contained within them, achieved through their faint ghostly appearance and eerie heaven-like presence.
