Celia Johnson at Albany Theatre

Celia Johnson is an artist and lecturer. She trained at Central St Martins (BA) and Cardiff School of Art (MFA Distinction) and lectures at Hereford College of Arts. Her work is mostly site or project specific and she’s part of the walking artists network. Her interests include the embodied experience of place; scavenging; the post-industrial landscape; archives; precarity; loss, and failure.

Celia explores ways in which a painting practice expands to reimagine found and discarded objects. Her work is informed by hauntology, psychogeography, the reactivation of archives, and the intersection of gender and place. The history of the Rex cinema in Coventry informs the work exhibited for Artist On My Street. Working with archives from the Herbert Museum, Celia’s work will explore local history and ideas of flight and display, and she’ll be inviting participants to join her in thinking about these subjects.