​Welcome to the website of Australian artist Christine Johnson

​Christine combines an interest in historical narratives and native flora, exploring ideas through painting, drawing and printmaking and adapts these traditional forms into public art, sound and installation works.
In 2021: 

• Christine is working with Hassell Studio architects creating perforated metal artworks for a public art project in Dandenong, Victoria. The imagery is based on native medicinal plants and nature’s DNA coding
• Mildura Arts Centre, Soundscape and Landscape, a multi-media installation in the old ballroom at Rio Vista House
• The Mallee on the Map, Mildura Arts Centre, a survey of Eileen Ramsay’s contribution to botany, including cyanotypes by Christine Johnson from the MAC Collection. Curator, Alison Vaughan, National Herbarium of Victoria
• Christine has been awarded a 2021 Print Council of Australia commission  read PCA blog post
• Finalist in 2021 Geelong acquisitive print award
• Finalist in the inaugural WAMA Art Prize.18 Sept – 31 Jan, 2022 at https://wama.net.au/wama-art-prize-finalists/​
• Finalist in the Experimental Print Prize, Castlemaine Art Museum 20 Nov - 28 Feb, 2022 https://castlemaineartmuseum.org.au/exhibitions/2021-epp