Anthony Johnson’s work often activates a complex and often humorous engagement with the everyday, while often precarious moments and states of impermanence inform a disparate practice that engages a breadth of different media, utilising photography, performance, video and sculpture to interrogate the relationship between materiality and context. Anthony received New Work grants from the Australia Council in both 2004 and 2013, and was the recipient of an Australia Council funded studio residency in Los Angeles (2009). In 2011 he was awarded a Qantas Foundation Contemporary Art Award and earlier this year won the 25th City of Hobart Art Prize. In 2012 Johnson participated in an international residency program at SOMA in Mexico City and has recently completed an MFA at the University of Tasmania.

He has an extensive exhibition history at artist-run initiatives, contemporary art spaces and museums throughout Australia.

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Memoirs of a Wall, 2010 (Detail)
punctuated eyeholes, and all the pre-existing hanging holes of the gallery wall re-perforated from behind wall, microphone and stand, amplifier
courtesy of the artist