Artist's statement.

Lucy Johnstone's work confronts head on our tidy notions of clear delineations between myth, culture and history. Our sense of the world and our place within it. Notions of other-worldliness, times and places forgotten and the boundaries between them, they are blurred, eroded bent and subverted. Through parody, paradox, form and colour Lucy reaches into a rich and diverse compendium of "otherness", inverting, distorting, reinventing and reversing. Sometimes pulling us into this parody and paradox, sometimes pushing this very "otherness" into our world, we are left with little choice than to accept its presence here with us. The challenge then for us is not to question the apparent, parody, whimsy; charm and chance that Lucy's work brings with it… rather question our own notions of reality and the foundations that reality is built upon.

I am very grateful to Stephen Brown of brownbull.com for the production of this site and his endless patience. I hope you enjoy browsing through the galleries. Please leave any comments you have and if you are interested in any of the work or in making a commission do not hesitate to contact me!

lucy johnstone

Born Edinburgh May 1964 daughter to John Johnstone A.R.S.A. and Gwen Rodger;
Studied
1982-85 Edinburgh university and Edinburgh college of art

2007 college @ UHI in Elgin 2006 moved to Easdale
2002-2006 volunteer firefighter
1999-2006 pre-5 worker Kilchattan primary
1998/2001Project/development officer
proprietor of sidespin workshop/café/gallery 1995-99
Moved to the isle of Colonsay 1990
1985-1990 singer songwriter

Exhibitions

2007 group show Flat Cat Gallery; Lauder
2007 Aspect Pize; Paisley Art Institute
2007 one man show; Poolside Gallery
2006 Ardfern Arts Festival,
2006 one man show Poolside Gallery
2006 one man show Easdale Village Hall
2005 Josie Eastwood Gallery; Winchester
2005 John St. Art Gallery; Oban
2005 one man show Poolside Gallery
2004 ardferns festival
2004 one man show Colonsay Heritage Centre