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EMILY JOHNS, <\/strong>29 Gensing Road<\/strong>, St Leonards on <\/strong>Sea<\/strong>, <\/strong>TN38 0HE<\/strong>, <\/strong>01424<\/strong>\u00a0428 792
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

2024 Picture map<\/strong>, Crowhurst Station. Permanent commission by Crowhurst Environment Group
\n2023 Gog Magog<\/strong>, linocut book illustrations, De La Warr Pavilion
\n2018 The World is My Country & Protest and Thrive<\/strong>, Hastings Arts Forum
\n2018 Lush Summit<\/strong>, Billingsgate, London
\n2016 The Politics of Print<\/a><\/strong>, Print Festival Scotland, Roseangle Arts Cafe Gallery, 132 Perth Road, Dundee
\n2016 Drawn to Witness<\/a><\/strong> a document of the changes in Hollington Valley\u00a0local wildlife site, which lies in the path of the Queensway Gateway road.
\n2015-2018\u00a0The World is my Country<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, touring exhibition of people’s history posters. 44 venues<\/a> including\u00a0Women\u2019s Museum in F\u00fcrth-Burgfarrnbach,\u00a0Women\u2019s Museum in Bonn,\u00a0Senate House Library<\/a>,\u00a0University of Cambridge\u2019s Festival of Ideas,\u00a0Scottish Storytelling Centre
\n2013 From Oxbridge to Osborne,<\/strong><\/em> One Cafe, St Leonards on Sea
\n2010 -2012\u00a0Conscious Oil: myth and mind in the age of petroleum.<\/strong>\u00a0Touring exhibition.
\nHastings Arts Forum; St David’s University Carmarthen; Swansea University; Swansea Environment Centre; Pontardawe Arts Centre<\/a> (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); Paris COP climate talks.
\n2009\u00a0Sound Bench<\/em><\/strong>, Regents Park London.
\n2007\u00a0Remember Saro-Wiwa <\/em>prints,<\/em><\/strong> Queen Mary\u2019s College London; the Royal Geographical Society,London; Museum of London
\n2006-13\u00a0Drawing <\/em><\/strong>Paradise<\/em><\/strong> on the \u2018Axis of Evil\u2019<\/em><\/strong>, touring print show dealing with Britain\u2019s 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\u2019s Church Liverpool, The People\u2019s 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.
\n2004\u00a0Tree Dressing,<\/em><\/strong> Annual print installation (changing exhibit every year from 1992 – 2004), Railway Fields Nature Reserve,London.
\n2004\u00a0From Cookie to Witch is an Old Story<\/em><\/strong>, Woodcuts, Barbican, London
\n2004 The Minotaur Myth,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0A kinetic installation of papercuts, Burton St Leonards Society, St Leonards-on-Sea.
\n2001\u00a0Sanctions Engravings, <\/em><\/strong>Milton Keynes Gallery,Milton Keynes
\n2001\u00a0Paintings and Etchings,<\/em><\/strong> Acute Angle Gallery,London.
\n2001\u00a0Children\u2019s Transport<\/em><\/strong>, Glass engraved wall, permanent commission, London\u2019s Transport Museum.
\n2000\u00a0Gene Genie: Making choices about genetic engineering<\/em><\/strong>, Sci-art collaboration and touring exhibition. Paintings & etchings, Pembrokeshire Science Festival,London venues,Sussex venues,Bradford.
\n1997 Library design and decoration. Permanent commission, Mount Stewart\u00a0Infants School,\u00a0London.
\n1996-7 Haringey Literature Festival<\/em><\/strong>, Book sculptures.
\n1996-8 Critical Mass: New Visions of our Nuclear Legacy,<\/em><\/strong> Sci-art collaboration. Drawings & public workshops, London, Museum of Oxford, Edinburgh Science Festival, Blackpool, Austria, Zimbabwe.
\n1995\u00a0Painting of Birth,<\/em><\/strong>KentishTown Health Centre,London.
\n1994\u00a0Right to Speech, Right to Silence,<\/em><\/strong> Torriano Meeting House,London
\n1994 Chimaeras Letterpress book with lino etchings, work exhibited at Dillons Art Bookshop and Foyles,London.
\n1992-93\u00a0Illustrations and Prints,<\/em><\/strong> Poetry Society,London.
\n1992\u00a0Life<\/em><\/strong> Environmental installation, Kentish Town Health Centre, London.
\n1991\u00a0We Are Running Out of Poppies,<\/em><\/strong> Work displayed on Cenotaph (televised).<\/p>\n

\u00a02\/3 PERSON EXHIBITIONS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

2024 Conversation Piece<\/strong>. With Amanda Lebus. Torriano Meeting House, London
\n2009 Light and Dark<\/em><\/strong>, Hastings Arts Forum
\n2002\u00a0Experimental Spaces,<\/em><\/strong>Hastings Museum and Art Gallery.
\n2001\u00a0Cautionary Tales,<\/em><\/strong> Rock-a-Nore Gallery,Hastings.
\n2000\u00a0Prints and glass engraving,<\/em><\/strong> Upinthe Gallery, Brighton Independent Printmakers.
\n1993\u00a0Joan James & Emily Johns<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Prints, Torriano Meeting House.
\n1993\u00a0Paintings and Prints,<\/em><\/strong> Conway Hall,London.
\n1992\u00a0Sources of Humanity<\/em><\/strong>, Conway Hall,London.
\n1991\u00a0Memorials to the Horrors of War<\/em><\/strong>, art actions with Platform London.
\n1990\u00a0Free Spirits and Dead Dogs,<\/em><\/strong> prints, Torriano Meeting House,London.<\/p>\n

\u00a0SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

2025 Watershed<\/strong>. Black Shed Gallery, Robertsbridge, lino cutting as ritual to understand River Rother geomorphology.
\n2025 Deep Time<\/strong>. SoCo Artists. Responses to the fossil collection at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
\n2023 Drawing Unframed<\/strong>. SoCO Artists. Hastings Arts Forum
\n2021 Hastings Open<\/strong>. Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
\n2021 A Smaller Picture<\/strong>. SoCo Artists. Hastings Arts Forum
\n2020 Stains and Traces of the human figure<\/strong>, curated by Ray McCrystal, Hastings Arts Forum
\n2019 Print International<\/strong>, Ty Pawb, Wrexham
\n2019 End of the Line<\/strong>, Stables Gallery, Hastings. With Caroline Macey, Hazel Brooks and John Plummer.
\n2019 Print: A catalyst for social change<\/strong>. Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Gallery. Curated by Jez Dolan
\n2019 Vital Water<\/strong>, Gallery North, Hailsham
\n2018 Light as a Feather<\/strong>, Stade Hall, Hastings
\n2018 Prints with a Point<\/strong> Stables Gallery Hastings. With Caroline\u00a0Macey, Oska Lappin, Martin Langford
\n2018 Self Comes to Mind<\/strong>. Self portraiture in the digital age. Electro Studios, St Leonards. Selected by Laetitia Yhap.
\n2018 One Hundred Years and What Have We Got?<\/strong> Hastings Arts Forum
\n2018 Light as a Feather<\/strong>, Stade Hall, Hastings
\n2018 Prints with a Point<\/strong>, Stables Theatre, Hastings
\n2017 Sussex Open<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
\n2017 Waterweek<\/strong><\/em>, Gallery North, Hailsham, curated by Charlotte Still and Clare Whistler
\n2016 East Sussex Open<\/strong>, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
\n2016 Society of Wood Engravers Annual exhibition<\/strong><\/em>
\n2015 Society of Wood Engravers Annual exhibition<\/strong><\/em>
\n2015 Sussex Artist Award,<\/strong><\/em> Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
\n2015 ‘St Leonards Edgelands’ print installation, part of Point of Decay<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, Bottle Alley, St Leonards on Sea, East Sussex, curated by Zeroh.
\n2015 Resistance is Fertile<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, Ovada, Oxford. Curated by Adrian Arbib.
\n2014 Ten<\/strong><\/em>. Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool
\n2014 Sequence of Change<\/strong><\/em>, Hastings Arts Forum
\n2014 Waterweek<\/strong><\/em>, Hailsham, curated by Claire Whistler
\n2013 Iraq Revisited<\/strong><\/em>, Curated by Alan Ingram, University College London. With dayschool:\u00a0Beyond the Geographies of War: Exploring Art and Peace<\/b>,\u00a0Department of Geography, UCL
\n2012 The Glory of the Garden<\/strong><\/em> Curated by Annie Rae, Hastings Art Forum
\n2012 The Peace Project<\/strong>,<\/em> Curated by Art Below,\u00a0Gallery Different, \u00a0London
\n2012 Beggars Hunting by Magic<\/strong><\/em>, Curated by Oska Lappin, St Leonards on Sea
\n2010\u00a05 Printmakers,<\/strong> Cornerstone Gallery, Hope University, Liverpool
\n2006\u00a0Penny and the Others<\/em><\/strong>, exhibition about domestic violence, SoCo Gallery,Hastings.
\n2005\u00a0Remember Saro-Wiwa,<\/em><\/strong> shortlist,Museum of\u00a0London, City Hall and Whitechapel Art Gallery.
\n2005\u00a0Portraiture Now<\/em><\/strong> SoCo, Gallery, Hastings.
\n2005\u00a0Hebden Bridge Sculpture Trail,<\/em><\/strong> (also exhibited 1998, 1999, 2003).
\n2005\u00a0Limited Edition,<\/em><\/strong> SoCo GalleryHastings.
\n2004\u00a0Gateway to the Greenway,<\/em><\/strong> sculpture shortlist, Alexandra Park, Hastings.
\n2004\u00a0Small Works,<\/em><\/strong> SoCo Gallery,Hastings.
\n2004\u00a0The Face and the Figure,<\/em><\/strong> Orleans House Gallery,London.
\n2003\u00a0Sons and Mothers,<\/em><\/strong> Collins Gallery,University ofStrathclyde,Glasgow.
\n2002\u00a0Discerning Eye,<\/em><\/strong> Mall Galleries,London.
\n2000\u00a0Eight Weeks,<\/em><\/strong> The Paper Bag Factory,London.
\n1998\u00a0Torriano Artists,<\/em><\/strong> Crouch End Library, London.
\n1996\u00a0Norwich<\/em><\/strong> Sculpture Festival.
\n<\/em><\/strong>1994\u00a0Artists\u2019 Bookfair,<\/em><\/strong> Festival Hall, London
\n1991\u00a0Royal Society of Painter Etchers Open<\/em><\/strong>, Bankside Gallery, London.
\n1991\u00a0Department of Transport exhibition<\/em><\/strong>, 2 anti-M11 posters, Business Design Centre, London.<\/p>\n

PUBLICATIONS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Book Illustrations<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Hope’s Work: facing the future in an age of crisis<\/em> by David Gee (Darton, Longman and Todd, 2021); From Anger to Action <\/em>by Ben Jackson and Harriet Lamb (Rowman and Littlefield, 2021); Geopolitics and the Event: Rethinking Britain\u2019s Iraq War Through Art<\/em> by Alan Ingram\u00a0(London: Wiley 2019);\u00a0The Power and Influence of Illustration<\/em> by Alan Male, (Bloomsbury 2019); Not in our name: War and Dissent in a Welsh town<\/em> by Philip Adams (Briton Ferry Books); Printmaking<\/em> by Ann D\u2019Arcy Hughes, (RotoVision 2009), images for chapter on linoetching; 28 books of poetry published by Hearing Eye; Firework Planet,<\/em> children\u2019s book, William Oxley, (Acumen Press);Through the Anarchist Press<\/em>, John Rety (Freedom Press); That Agony is Our Triumph: The Story of Sacco and Vanzetti<\/em>, Milan Rai (Drava Papers); War Plan Iraq<\/em>, Milan Rai (Verso); 7\/7 \u2013 the London Bombings<\/em>, Milan Rai (Pluto Press).<\/p>\n

MAGAZINES
\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Friends of the Earth; Acumen Magazine<\/em>; The Strad<\/em>; BBC Music Magazine<\/em>; Peace News;<\/em>\u00a0 Women\u2019s Environmental Network;\u00a0 Ploughshares Movement; Corporate Watch<\/em>; Housmans Peace Diary; Resurgence<\/em>; Voices in the Wilderness; Justice Not Vengeance; Sea of Faith<\/em> magazine; Poetry Now; New Internationalist<\/em><\/p>\n

EDUCATION<\/strong><\/h2>\n

HNC & HND Crafts Hastings College of Art and Tech. 2004 & 2005
\nPractical typesetting (letterpress) London College of Printing 1990-1996
\nFine Art, BA Hons. Goldsmiths,London University 1991
\nFoundation Course Sir John Cass School of Art,London, 1988
\nGeography, BA Hons. Durham University, 1986<\/p>\n

AWARDS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Clothworkers\u2019 Foundation – 2 year bursary
\nSt Pancras Trust – study award
\nCaedmon Trust – study award
\nSouthern Arts – exhibition award
\nGLAA – exhibition award
\nMartin Ryle Trust – art and science exhibition award
\nNational Artists\u2019 Association – Artists\u2019 Access to Art Schools award
\nNetwork Foundation – travel and exhibition award for pictoral study of Iran.
\nJuliet Gomperts Trust – drawing award
\nJohn Purcell Paper prize at Print International, Ty Pawb
\nKenwood Ladies’ Pond 1 year residency<\/p>\n

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
\n<\/strong>Bradford Peace Museum
\nStrathclyde University
\nLondon\u2019s Transport Museum
\nDayton Peace Museum, Ohio, USA
\nCentre for the Study of Political Graphics, Culver City, California, USA<\/p>\n

TEACHING
\n<\/strong>Hastings College, Sussex: Etching; wood engraving; political print
\nTowner Gallery, Eastbourne, Sussex: Wood engraving
\nJerwood Gallery, Hastings, Sussex: Wood engraving
\nArts on Prescription, Hastings.
\nHastings Museum, lino cutting to understand geomorphology.
\nBlack Shed Gallery, Robertsbridge, lino cutting to understand geomorphology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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