Artist: Tim Johnson

Tim Johnson

Collaboration seems to come naturally to Tim Johnson, whose interest in exploring connections between spiritual disciplines and the material world brings with it an openness to many approaches Andrew Stevens, 2024 His paintings are landscapes of desire, images of impossible unity, imagined syntheses of cultural and visual systems that freely draw upon images whose meaning […]

Counterculture

Counterculture comprises small- and medium-scale works which derive their imagery from subjects of longstanding interest to Johnson, including blues music, Tibetan Buddhism and UFOs. “The idea of a ‘counterculture’ was something I grew up with,” says Johnson, who was born in Sydney in 1947 and gravitated towards conceptual concerns early on as an artist.