Emma Johnson

Currently working in painting and textiles, with themes emerging from an exploration of transformative materials and objects, the multiplicity of design and folding patterns, architectural and geometric themes, origami, paper, fabric and flight. Central to all this is the notion of “one thing becoming another”.

I also work extensively with Map Art, creating highly intricate layered artworks from hand cut paper road maps, often to commission.

Represented by TAG Fine Art, London.

Education:
Jacob Kramer College of Art, Leeds
The University of Reading
The Slade School of Fine Art, London.

Living in Suffolk since 1992, I have been a member of Asylum Studios since 2001.

Exhibitions include:
1997 The LARGE Print Show, Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich
1998 On the Border, The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester
2002 Fragments, Kharkiv City Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2006 On the Map, North House Gallery, Manningtree
2009 Points of Reference, Residency & Solo exhibition at Landguard Fort, Felixstowe
2009 Map as Art, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York
2011 The Art of Mapping, Air Gallery, London
2013 TAR, Black Diamond Gallery, Port Adelaide, Australia
2021 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2022 EARTH, North House Gallery, Manningtree
2023 Wish You Were Here, Gallery 46, Whitechapel, London
2025 FLY, Solo exhibition at Asylum Studios, Bentwaters, Suffolk
2025 & 2026 The Summer Contemporary, Snape Maltings, Suffolk
2026 Colliding Worlds, Asylum Studios, Bentwaters, Suffolk
Since 2012 Art Fairs in London, New York, Hong Kong & Singapore

Website: emmajohnsonmaps.com