Emily Johns

Artist • Teacher • Activist

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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Picture map of Crowhurst village, East Sussex

Crowhurst Railway Station

Permanent commission by Crowhurst Environment Group

Gog Magog

De La Warr Pavilion

Linocut book illustrations for teen novel.

The World is My Country & Protest and Thrive

Hastings Arts Forum

Lush Summit

Lush, Billingsgate, London

Exhibition of political prints

The Politics of Print

Roseangle Arts Cafe Gallery, Dundee

Print Festival Scotland

Drawn to Witness

Memorial Gallery, Hastings

A document of the changes in Hollington Valley local wildlife site, which lies in the path of the Queensway Gateway road. Commissioned by Combe Haven Defenders. Funded by Lush.

The World is my Country

44 venues. including Women’s Museum in Fürth-Burgfarrnbach, Women’s Museum in Bonn, Senate House Library, University of Cambridge’s Festival of Ideas, Scottish Storytelling Centre

A touring exhibition of people’s history posters celebrating the people and movements that opposed the First World War. Commissioned by Peace News. Funded by Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, the Amiel-Melburn Trust, the Lipman-Miliband Trust and Kickstarter supporters. https://theworldismycountry.info/

From Oxbridge to Osborne

Combe Haven Defenders, One Cafe, St Leonards on Sea

A pictorial map of the relationship between business, academia and road building in East Sussex.

Conscious Oil: myth and mind in the age of petroleum.

Commissioned by Justice not Vengeance

Touring exhibition. Hastings Arts Forum; St David’s University Carmarthen; Swansea University; Swansea Environment Centre; Pontardawe Arts Centre (5 plays written in response to the pictures); Lampeter; Llandindrod; The School Creative Centre, Rye, Sussex; The Welsh Assembly meeting on climate change, The Pavillion, Llangollen; Torriano Meeting House, London; Peace and Environment Centre, Aberystwyth; St Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire; Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea; Carmarthen Ecothon (stories were told in response to the pictures by singer and storyteller Esyllt Harker); University of Wales, Carmarthen; St Peter's Church Hall, Lampeter; Hastings Arts Forum; Paris COP climate talks.

Sound Bench

Regents Park, London

Collaboration with sound engineer, Patrick Nicholson, a decorated bench that plays music.

Remember Saro-Wiwa

The London Museum; Queen Mary’s College London; Royal Geographical Society the Royal Geographical Society,London; Museum of London

A maquette and prints. One of a shortlist of five proposals from an international open submission selected by a panel. Commissioned by Platform London to commemorate Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa who was executed together with eight Ogoni colleagues by the Nigerian military in 1995 for his campaigning against the despoilation of the Niger Delta by oil companies. https://platformlondon.org/remember-saro-wiwa-in-land-art-a-cultural-ecology-handbook/

Drawing Paradise on the ‘Axis of Evil’

Justice Not Vengeance.

Touring print show dealing with Britain’s relationship with Iran. Electric Palace cinema Hastings, Stirling, Nottingham, Birmingham, Falmouth, Tenby Museum, Little Wedlock Gallery (Gumfreston), Wrexham Arts Centre, Span Arts Centre (Narbeth), Cornerstone Gallery (Liverpool Hope University), St Luke’s Church Liverpool, The People’s Centre Liverpool, Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies Liverpool, Milford Haven, Cardiff, Swansea, Dayton Peace Museum (Ohio, USA), Duke of Clarence Gallery London, Teatro Technis, London.

Tree Dressing

Railway Fields Nature Reserve, Harringay, London.

Annual print installation (changing exhibit every year). Mostly ephemeral, all outdoors sculptural work.

2/3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS

Conversation Piece

Torriano Meeting House

With Amanda Lebus. Torriano Meeting House, London

Light and Dark

Hastings Arts Forum

With Rachel Lever

Selected group exhibitions

Watershed

Black Shed Gallery, Robertsbridge

The Three Ages of the River. Lino cutting as collective ritual to understand River Rother geomorphology. A collaboration with singer, Gabrielle Lewry, and a contribution to Clare Whistler and Charlotte Still's residency.