Sandra Johnston

Sandra Johnston has been active internationally since 1992 as an artist, researcher and educator working predominantly through performance art, video installations, drawing and writing. Johnston’s practice is rooted in processes of improvisation and typically actions involve a sparsity of materials and attentiveness to context. The physical somatic aspects of her work develop from an ethos of attrition — consciously attempting to use a minimum of available resources, intersecting with a desire to leave no trace. This approach of provisionality insists upon a speculative relationship to the emergence of narratives and meanings being formed directly, and conjointly, between artist and audience. Additionally, she has been committed long-term to engaging with the continuance of artist-led networks.