1. The Fecund Line
    The Fecund Line
  2. The Sidney Nolan Trust
    The Sidney Nolan Trust
  3. Hereford:Walking Home
    Hereford:Walking Home
  6. Cardiff: From One Place to Another
    Cardiff: From One Place to Another
  8. #22 High Street Arcade
    #22 High Street Arcade
  11. Hereford: Walking Home
    Hereford: Walking Home
  14. Work In Progress
    Work In Progress
  15. Work In Progress
    Work In Progress
  16. Work In Progress
    Work In Progress


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SITE RESPONSIVE MULTI-DISCIPLINARY WALKING ARTIST.


 I use walking and drawing as research methodology and performance/live art, to explore, re-examine and respond to a particular, often familiar, environment, and as a base for both collaborative and individual work.

Walks (and found objects, stories/histories collected on the way, photographs and drawings) develop into installations, interventions, and paintings that investigate place, memory and identity.

Working across and beween disciplines and media to create new encounters with place and its connection with personal and community experience and narrative.


CASHMORE & JOHNSON and OVER HERE:

One half of Cashmore & Johnson - established as a project lead, collaborative practice exploring a shared interest in psychogeography, relational aesthetics and site specific inquiry; identifying sites of sociopolitical interest to create interventions and events informed by ideas of hospitality and home. 
Cashmore & Johnson is also a part of ‘Over Here’  - a newly established community based art collective that creates live events fostering diverse and participatory dialogues in communal spaces.


TEACHING:
I'm a lecturer at Hereford College of Arts where I teach on the Fine Art BA and, as part of my walking art practice, I facilitate walks and walk based workshops/events exploring the experience of place.


CURRENT PROJECTS

THE CANARY GIRLS: Response to the history of the women who worked at Royal Ordnance Munitions Factory in Rotherwas, Hereford  (Cashmore & Johnson).

NIGHT WALKS: ongoing – a series of digitally documented (filmed) solitary walks at night to explore the gendered art practice of walking as “laying claim to space without having it” (Lajer-Burcharth, E, “Duchess of Nothing: Video Space and the Woman Artist” in Armstrong C and de Zegher C, ed., Women Artists in the Millenium, (MIT 2006).).  

RESEARCH:
Facilitating ongoing walk/draw events with female members of the Polish community in Hereford to explore notions of home and (new) homemaking.

Full Moon Walks.  Ongoing collaboration with Natalie Ramus to create a series of 9 Full Moon Walks (some of which will be participatory) at The Sidney Nolan Trust



EXHIBITION AND EVENT HISTORY

2017 

Full Moon Walks.  Lines In The Landscape Residency.  The Sidney Nolan Trust.

Walking Womens Network.  Contributor to the event celebrating the publication of a Study Room Guide to Walking Women's practice at LADA.

2016

Walking Women (Part of UTOPIA 2016).  Somerset House.  Speaker: Artist Talks. http://www.walkingartistsnetwork.org/walking-women/

'The Fecund Line: A Response to Sidney Nolan's 'Paradise Garden'.  Solo Exhibition. The Sidney Nolan Trust, Herefordshire. UK 

2015
Walking Responses.  Residency Exhibition. The Sidney Nolan Trust. Herefordshire. UK

Time at the Bar Made in Roath Festival (OVER HERE). Cardiff. UK.

Do What You Can Cardiff Gallery Footings (Over Here). Cardiff. UK.

Old Mayors Parlour. New Work. Hereford. UK

FAB Intervention/Divided by the Bathwater Fringe Arts Bath (C&J). Bath. UK

2014
Made in Roath (C&J). Cardiff UK.

Masters Exhibition Cardiff Metropolitan University. Cardiff UK.

Pop up Exhibition Cardiff Metropolitan University (C&J). Cardiff UK.

2013
Made in Roath. Cardiff UK.

Cardiff Open. #22 High Street Arcade, Cardiff Arts Collective (Artist in Residence). Cardiff UK.

Drawing Symposium.  Cardiff Metropolitan University. Cardiff UK.

Institute of Art and Ideas.  Hay on Wye. UK.


RESIDENCIES
2015
The Sidney Nolan Trust.  Presteigne. Herefordshire. UK.

2013
Response to Place. Sidney Nolan Trust. Presteigne UK.
Cardiff Arts Collective (Cardiff Open).  Cardiff UK.

PARTICIPANT
2015
Walking and Wellbeing.  With Dr Cathy Treadaway.
www.cathytreadaway.com/research/walk-and-draw/  ‘This investigation is looking at how walking and drawing might contribute to wellbeing and is part of the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) Connected Communities funded project: Urban Flows; Connections, Shared Environments and Environmental Flows – how local walking interventions induce community positivity in urban locations which is a collaboration with Birmingham City University.’

2014
CAAPO Cardiff (Creative Assault Art Production Organisation)‘Survivor Residency; The Survivalist Series 2013/14 (Domestic)



COLLABORATIVE:

(OVER HERE - As part of the Over Here Collective) 
(C&J - part of Cashmore & Johnson - collaborative practice)


ARTIST BOOKS:
   
(Self published, both can be seen on my blog: http://celiajohnson.tumblr.com)

 Artist’s Books of Project/ Residency Documentation:

To The Rodd.

#22 High Street Arcade.