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Matthew Johnson has over the years been involved in translating his work into other spatial dominions. He has recently completed a series of external optical screens for the Yellow House in Sydney and is currently designing and incorporating an artwork for the Monument Building in Oxford Street Sydney in association with Multiplex. Johnson’s work deals mainly with the issues of colour. He is using his knowledge in this area to construct artworks in private and public spaces. This sometimes means using applications other than paint. For example, in Monument he is constructing a 40 metre long artwork consisting of l.e.d.s limits and colour gel that changes colour gradually non stop for the next 15 years. He is also translating a painting into 15 layers of a building from the external walls right through the building. In fact turning the building into a swiss cheese!! We look forward in future to seeing the outcome of these projects by Matthew here in the not too distant future. By
the way the painting “Chill in Time” was initially
untitled. The accident of the title (wine to chill in time for
the opening) left as a memo or the artists bad handwriting oil
on canvas was read as Chill in Time. Always a title involves
some conceptual message though abstract paintings can certainly
invoke many messages.
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