Kate Johnson,
Assistant Professor

Information about Kate Johnson at the University of Bradford.

: School of BEACI
(Faculty of Eng & Digital Technologies)
Email:: k.m.johnson1@bradford.ac.uk
Telephone:: +44 1274 234037

Biography

Kate Johnson MFA PG Dip(Oxon) BA(Hons) PGCE FHEA

Kate's background is in art practice and art history. Recently she has interwoven her practical and academic interests with the discipline of Design. Current research interests border art, culture, science and technology. Kate is currently artist and PI on AHRC funded 'Project code-named Humpty' [P c-n H] which is linked with the University of Bradford archaeological science 'Fragmented Heritage' project. P c-n H includes collaborations with University of Leeds Civil Engineering, Bradford UNESCO City of Film, Buro Happold Engineering, Hanson Aggregates and Christeyns UK Ltd. Kate currently teaches Drawing for Production across several programmes and contributes to final year project supervisions across the faculty of Engineering and Informatics.

https://www.bradford.ac.uk/project-code-named-humpty/

Research

SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

2020 May. 'Project code-named Humpty' :Gesture and the Performative Body GKA Visual 2020

https://gkacademics.com/project-code-named-humpty-gesture-and-the-performative-body/

2020 Feb - Mar Millenium Square 'big screen' Leeds. Screenings of P c-n H films - in partnership with Bradford UNESCO City of Film

2018 Jan -ongoing Centenary Square, ‘big screen’ Bradford. Screenings of P c-n H films

2017 July ‘Burn,break, bulldoze: is it ever okay to destroy a piece of art? TheConversation https://theconversation.com/burn-break-bulldoze-is-it-ever-okay-to-destroy-a-piece-of-art-81073.

2013 Online catalogue for ‘YA4’ Leeds Gallery March showing 12 landscapes

2012 ‘Yorkshire Post’ 28th September 2012. Article/ image ‘Man and Machine’

2011 www.bradford.ac.uk/video/man-and-machine.php

2011 Ilkley Art Trail :http://ilkleyarttrail.blogspot.co.uk/2011_09_01_archive.html

2004 ‘TheView’ [The Art House]. Front page: image 'Requiem for A Young Man'

2000 ‘Art Review’ March/April. Photo published of ‘North, South,East, West’.

2000 ‘Falmouth Packet’ March 30 “New exhibitions at FalmouthArt Gallery"

2000 ‘Leisure Briton’ April 6. “Incorporating Art with Nature” - referenceto Falmouth exhibition

2000 ‘CornwallReview’ April p.4. Coverage of Falmouthexhibition and photo published of ‘North,South, East, West’.

2000 ‘CornwallLife’ April p.74. Coverage of Falmouth exhibition and photo published of 'Last Judgement'

1999 ‘The View’ [The Art House] no. 16 Profile - Kate Johnson Photo published of ‘Vesuvian Man’ work in progress forFalmouth Art Gallery.

1998 ‘TheView’ no. 15 Photo of exhibition at Henshaw’s Arts Centre ‘99 'Ceres'

1998 ‘Collage’ newsletter no. 11 - Photo of exhibition - Vital Art‘98 'Hecate'

1997 Axis NationalArtists Register [computer database]Leeds Metropolitan University. Photos published of '1492', 'Narcissus', 'Last Judgement', 'The Fall of Icarus', 'North,South, East, West' and 'Man'.

1995 ‘RoyalAcademy Magazine’ Sept. issue. Photo of 'TheDispossessed'.

1995 ‘Index Magazine’ Kent and area. Photo published of 'Three Figures'. 1994 ‘St. Louis Post Dispatch’ January 6 Review - CarolFerring Shepley US.

1993 ‘St. Louis Tower GroveGazette’ November. Review - Stephanie Gavin. Photo published of '1492' US.

1993 ‘TheChicago Reader’ September 17. Photo published of 'Narcissus' US.

1993 ‘Savannah News’ April 4. Review -MartyShuter US.

1993 ‘The Georgia Guardian’ April 9 Review - Katherine Sherman US.

1992 ‘St. Louis PostDispatch’ November 26 Review - CarolFerring Shepley US.

1992 ‘St. Louis Post Dispatch’ October 8 Review - Ronald Duffy US.

1992 ‘Savannah Morning News’ July 5 Review -Lisa Perot Twigg. Photo published of 'TheFall of Icarus' US.

1991 ‘Art Calendar’ Photo published of 'Mary Rose' US.

1991 Kansas City Area T.V. ‘University Magazine’ Feb. 2.Focus on 'Belladonna'

1990 Catalogue for 9thAnnual Alexandria Museum of Art 'Belladonna'and 'Mary Rose'.

1987 ‘Arts Review’ May8. Review - Jane Norrie. UK.

1987 ‘The Oxford Times’ May 8. Review - 'N.B.' UK.

1987 ‘Isis Magazine’(Oxford University), issue 87/II. Review- Liz Jones. UK.

1986 ‘Isis’ Magazine (Oxford University), issue 86/II. Review - Jennifer Noon. Photo of 'Coiled Figure' UK.

RESEARCH RELATED ACTIVITY

2019 Jun - Presentation 'Mould Making, Materials and Casting in Project code-named Humpty' Session: Embodied Knowledge Lasting Impressions: Making and Re-Making the Replica Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

2019 Feb - attended 'Celebrating Reproductions' at V and A, London

2018 April - Presentation of 'Project code-named Humpty' at AHRC Digital Transformations Workshop ‘Reconnecting Artistic Practice andHumanities Research’, Furtherfield Commons, Finsbury Park

2018 Mar - Meeting with P c-n H project mentor, AlisonSmith, Senior Curator, National Portrait Gallery, London

2018 Under consideration by Plos One ‘New Advances in the Automated DigitalReconstruction of Fragmented Artefacts for Cultural Heritage Conservation’Dr Adrian Evans; Thomas Sparrow; Hayden Strawbridge; Andrew Holland; Kate Johnson; Robert Davis; JarodHutson; Matt Pope; Nick Ashton; Andrew Wilson

2017 Nov attended ‘Modern Classicisms: Classical Art andContemporary Artists in Dialogue’ at King’s College, London

2017 July ‘Burn, break, bulldoze: is it everokay to destroy a piece of art? The Conversation https://theconversation.com/burn-break-bulldoze-is-it-ever-okay-to-destroy-a-piece-of-art-81073

2017 Jun Visit to Blythe House, Olympia, London re Cast and Mould Storage,British Museum

2017 March Visit to British Museum Replications Department to meet MikeNeilson

2017 March Presentation ‘Project code-namedHumpty’ University of Glasgow EED&PN Symposium March 23rd

2016 Febattended ‘Symposium on Art and Terrorism’ The Courtauld Institute of Art – The SacklerResearch Forum

2015 July Presentation of 'Project code-named Humpty' at the AHRC Digital TransformationsTheme 'Large Grants meeting', University of Oxford

2015 Oct 'Drawing Differently', The Big Draw,National Media Museum Presentation and talk about 2D and 3D drawing including alive clay sculpting demonstration. Event undertaken in collaboration with FinCaton-Rose

2015 Organised conference session: 'Artist and Archaeologist/ArtistArchaeologist/ Archaeologist Artist' for Theoretical Archaeology Group [TAG]Conference, University of Bradford

2015 Curated a digital art exhibition 'TAG art2015' presenting art which explores archaeological themes or processes for theTheoretical Archaeology Group [TAG] Conference, University of Bradford. Theexhibition ran during the plenary session and throughout the conference in theAtrium. Dec

2015 DecDelivered paper entitled 'Creation, destruction and transformation: 'Projectcode-named Humpty' at the Theoretical Archaeology Group [TAG] Conference,University of Bradford

2015 Exhibited 'Man and Machine', 'VesuvianMan', 'North, South, East, West' and work in progress in digital exhibition'TAG art 2015', University of Bradford

2014 Dec 'Becoming Human', University of Bradford.Exhibition of 'Man and Machine' and a live clay sculpting demonstration. Partof the 'Being Human' festival of the Humanities

Professional activities

Information about education, employment and areas of particular interest for Ms Kate Johnson is as follows:

Employment

University of Bradford - Lecturer in Design

Education