Nostalgic Futures
 Nostalgic Futuresby James Johnson-PerkinsJames Johnson-Perkins is a British award-winning artist who, in recent times, has lived and worked in Turkey, USA, Slovakia, Italy, Nepal, Russia, Oman, China and the United Kingdom. Johnson-Perkins has exhibited in important and leading venues in Europe, Asia and North America, Including: Ars Electronica Centre, Linz, Austria, Nord Art, Budelsdorf, Germany, The Emily Harvey Foundation, Venice, Italy, The Royal College of Art, London, UK, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland, The Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen, China, Toyota Museum of Modern Art, Toyota City, Japan, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea, The Patan Museum, Kathmandu, Nepal, Austin Museum of Digital Art, Austin, USA and The Arts Student League, New York, USA.  Johnson-Perkins has won the Mediterranean Contemporary Art Prize, President’s Award. He was the runner-up for the Alpine Fellowship and the Visual Arts Prize, and he was an award winner in the Art Observatory Digital Art Program, Ukraine/United Kingdom. He has also been a finalist in the “Airland 4.0 Nature, Technology, Energy” Competition, and he has been shortlisted for the Passpartout Photo Prize, Italy. Johnson-Perkins’ practice draws from areas of: memory, nostalgia and play. It touches on important contemporary themes, such as Ethics, Religion, The Uncanny, Migration, Capitalism, Politics, and War. He creates Taxonomies of narratives, which also in themselves explore history, identity, and place. His work uses an assemblage of: digital collage, childhood materials, nostalgic objects, costume, new media, painting and drawing. ABOUT THE BOOK Purchase the book from Amazon HERE |