Is it possible to turn ephemeral memories into tangible forms? Melding familiar imagery into new memory images and artefacts, my work explores the built structures of everyday experience. Recognising the connection between memory-making and the frame of architectural place, I use various processes, from ink drawing to slab building ceramics, to embody and enhance these fragmented memory images.

I make art about architecture and the built environment: mundane, everyday spaces like fuel stations and dilapidated houses. Places that are passed their ‘use-by date’ within society's consciousness. I find these everyday places intriguing, these empty spaces and inside-out places contain the remnants of human existence, traces of memories that exist on the periphery of collective history. Through my practice I aim to contribute to a better understanding of how we approach such spaces within the urban sphere. I want to develop an other-awareness towards the personal histories all around us and emphasise the need for artistic intervention into these histories before they are lost.

I could go on, but I will let the art speak for itself.

Johanna’s practice-led research is driven by the desire to demonstrate how art can be used to reclaim memory from the escalating forgetfulness of contemporary culture. While completing a PhD investigating the relationship between architecture and memory through artist practice titled ‘When Buildings Remember: How Art Can Reclaim Architectural Memory’ (2021-2025), she has exhibited, worked and taught within numerous diverse roles throughout the regional arts community.