Design and Art Australia Online

This major survey exhibition begins with Johnson’s activities as a conceptual and performance artist in the early 1970s and co-founder of the Inhibodress artists’ collective in Sydney. In addition to performance, documentation, films, and artists’ books made in the early 1970s, this section also includes Johnson’s paintings and prints that are inspired by Punk music. The main section of Tim Johnson: painting ideas commences with paintings inspired by Johnson’s visits to Papunya in the 1980s and his subsequent collaborations with Aboriginal artists including Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri and Michael Jagamarra Nelson, among others.