Education
UCA Canterbury 2018-2019 Foundation Diploma in Art and Design
Central Saint Martins 2019-2023 BA Fine Art
Awards
Winner of the BBC’s Little Painting Challenge 2015, chosen from 38,000 entries.
Winner of the Veronica Thorley Award for progress and achievement in Art 2016.
Highly Commended work by the Royal Society of British Artists selection panel for the National Students Art Exhibition 2016, 2017 and 2018.
Shortlisted for the Turner Contemporary Portfolio Prize 2016.
Work selected and placed in the Central Saint Martins Private Collection 2020.
Awarded the Vice Vision Award at Xhibit June 2022 to collaborate on a TikTok video with Vice UK.
Amelia Johnson (b.1999) is an artist based in Kent. Johnson focuses upon the use of papier-mâché and ceramics to sculpt characters who permeate between reality and the imaginary. The essence of the characters created are part inspired by the people she sees in day-to-day life. Observed and documented through quick photographs and drawings Johnson analyses microcosms of society, different subcultures or regional stereotypes.
There is an ever-present sense of the uncanny to them. Their bones are made of wire and wood, flesh of paper or clay; yet they imitate a universal feeling. This is captured through distinct facial expressions, whereby the sculptures amplify emotion, expression, and play upon the highs and lows of the human experience. Utilising kinetics, sounds and sculptural depictions of everyday objects within the work further toys with the uncanny. Their exaggerated nature offers up a humour in correlation with a sense of familiarity .
Read Amelia’s recent interview with ‘Cene Magazine here:
Selected Exhibitions
The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery London, March 2025
Group Show, Renovation Job, Tate Institute, August 2024.
Group Show, RBA Rising Stars, ROSL London, April 2024.
Duo Show, Loam with Freyja Crow at the Future Foundry Project Space, Charlton Centre Dover, November 2023.
Group Show Sunset Ripple with Subtitle Labs at Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, August 2023.
Group Show Pilgrimage at Central Saint Martins, London, June 2023.
Group Show Wanted Zine, Launch party and exhibition at Greatorex Street Gallery, London, May 2023.
Group Show Into the Abject at The Haggerston, London, April 2023.
Group Show Impressions with Subtitle Labs in Notting Hill, London, March 2023.
Works photographed and featured in C41 Magazine Issue 12, May 2022.
Exhibited in Our Kitchen Thanet, Margate for the Power of Women Festival Arts Trail, March 2022.
Group Show FreeHouse at the Brewery Tap Folkestone, May 2022 - Exhibiting artist and curator.
Group Show Xhibit at Koppel Project, New Bond Street, London, June 2022.
Group Show Queer Sex at Candid Arts Trust, London, June 2022.
Group Show Visible an LGBTQIA+ History Month Exhibition at Central Saint Martins, London, February - March 2022.
Exhibited The Snog in Elsewhere, Margate for the Power of Women Festival, March 2021.
Group show for ‘Beyond the Streets’ Charity at Central Saint Martins, London, 2020
Exhibited at The Whitworth, Manchester 2015 with the winning work from the Little Painting Challenge.