Tim Johnson b. 1947

  • Artist (Painter),
  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Artist (Photographer)
A painter by profession, Johnson initially studied architecture at Sydney University which is not surprising given his family's strong ties to architecture both in the public and private sectors. He taught for some years at NSW schools. Johnson was an early and major collector of Western Desert Aboriginal art.
Tags: Conceptual art, Aboriginal connections, Spiritual values
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Citations

  • Phipps, Jennifer (November 1975), 'Project 9: Documents, Film, Video’.

  • Nicholls, Christine (2000), 'From appreciation to appropriation – indigenous influences and images in Australian visual art’, Flinders University Art Museum, Adelaide, SA.

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  • Project 9: Documents, Film, Video (exhibited at)
  • Tim Johnson: painting ideas (exhibited at)
  • Tim Johnson: across cultures: cultural repatriation (exhibited at)
  • Languish (exhibited at)
  • Three views of emptiness: Buddhism and the art of Tim Johnson, Lindy Lee and Peter Tyndall (exhibited at)
  • Recent Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • The Situation Now: Object and Post Object Art (exhibited at)
  • Australian and New Zealand Post-Object Show- A Survey (exhibited at)
  • Rotary Collection of Australian Art (exhibited at)
  • Events/Structures (performed at)
  • Group exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Concepts (exhibited at)
  • Royal Easter Show: Art prize exhibitions 1970 (exhibited at)
  • 32nd annual C.A.S. exhibition (exhibited at)
  • Royal Easter Show: art prize exhibitions (exhibited at)
  • Tim Johnson: off the wall (exhibited at)