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Amelia Johnson

Amelia is a printmaker, who works primarily with woodcut, to explore the gaze and portrait of the bird. Throughout her work she creates hybridised BirdFolk figures, as creatures of character and play. Taking the anthropocentric and ego of the human form and interupting 'human' spaces with the 'alien' figure of the watching bird. Alongside exploring hybridisation her work features mutated bird figures. Birds that have, through mysterious means, become figures of observation and watching aided by multiple heads or many eyes. Her process is one of collage and playfulness, leading to detailed reduction woodcut prints.
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Painting of a parrot with multiple eyes

Parrot Vision

This piece explores the mutant bird, in this case, a parrot with seven watchful eyes. In my work I explore birds and the birds gaze, suggesting that they are watching us with a somewhat paranoid slant to my work. In this piece the parrot, a bird associated with domesticity and mimicry, has become a figure of surveillance, and one cannot avoid its many eyes and piercing gaze. The piece has been done using a reduction woodcut method, using a piece of plywood and 5 layers of colour.
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BEWARE BIRDS FLYPOST – Installation

Harnessing the imagery of warning signs and propaganda, this installation intends to evoke a feeling of wariness and suspicion. It features various versions of five main ‘posters’ which all read ‘BEWARE BIRDS WATCHING’, in English, Turkish, Romanian and Japanese. These multiple languages intend to make it more universal and suggest a more widespread issue effecting a worldwide perspective.