The ‘Full English’, 2018, exists both as a 3D installation for casement and as a limited edition print on the casement online store.

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Both works reflect on the fragmentation of Great Britain post EU referendum as an island nation of seaside B&B’s, ‘affordable’ housing and barely suppressed rage.

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The installation reflects on the dubious notion that so called affordable housing is affordable. In places like London and the south east is 80% of market rent really a rent that families on low incomes can afford?

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Presented at Casement is a diorama of a living room from real social housing. A room in a council flat built in 1953.

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However, where you might expect to see signs of habitation, there is a Mary Celeste void in this room. The floor has dematerialized.

 

Steve Johnson studied for a BA Hons in Fine Art at Goldsmiths College London, and for an MA in Sculpture at Chelsea College of Art. Steve's work has been exhibited widely in the U.K and Europe. In the U.K, works have been exhibited at the Hayward Gallery - London, the Henry Moore Institute - Leeds, Longside Gallery - Yorkshire Sculpture Park, the Royal Academy of Arts - London, the Science Museum - London and the Serpentine Gallery - London. In Europe works have been exhibited at the Berlinische Gallery Landesmuseum - Berlin, Hilversum Museum - Holland, Kunsthaus - Dresden, and the Scharpf Gallery / Wilhelm Hack Museum - Ludwigshafen. 

 

Steve has received awards from amongst others, the Arts Council of England, the British Council, and the Pollock - Krasner Foundation, New York and his works can be found in public collections, including those of the Arts Council England, the Berlinische Galerie, Berlin and the Science Museum, London.