@misc{dd0d3651c5c641be8bd354ff679e60ef,
title = "Meantime",
author = "Helen Johnson",
note = "13 works: 12 x acrylic on canvas 1 x acrylic on linen Painting. Exhibition discussed in 'Paintings about Painting', The Blackmail offline #3, Spring 2014; 'Helen Johnson: Meantime - Dan Rule review', Raven; 'Helen Johnson', frieze magazine, issue 159, Nov - Dec 2013; 'Your weekend: in the galleries', The Age, 6 July 2013. A selection of these works shown as part of solo exhibition 'Time Flies', Sutton Projects, Fitzroy, Vic, Australia, 2 August 2014 to 30 August 2014. One of the works shown as part of group exhibition 'June: A Painting Show', Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK, 9 June 2015 to 15 August 2015 Continuing on from a previous exhibition in 2011, 'System Preferences', in which I made subtle use of imagery relating to contemporary political attitudes and influences in Australia, 'Meantime' offers a similarly informed yet equivocal engagement with Australian politics-although the work makes some address to political subject matter, it is not {\textquoteleft}political art' per se. I avoid the propensity for my subject matter to translate as an opinion piece, instead establishing grounds for in-depth contemplation and debate. Both loaded and contextually specific, the imagery is treated with an insistently aesthetic approach, with an implicit claim for the continuing possibility of critical engagement through reflective aesthetic experience. The building up of layered surfaces in 'Meantime' is not merely a technically-driven choice, but also serves as a metaphor for some of the complexities and interplay that operate in the ongoing formation of Australian identity - including {\textquoteleft}the persistence of denialist accounts of colonisation, the relationship between personal and official histories, and more fleeting cultural trends that spike the mix, becoming ever present as we lean into the internet'. ; Meantime ; Conference date: 28-06-2013 Through 27-07-2013",
year = "2013",
language = "English",
publisher = "Sutton Gallery",
}