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Evoking an emotional reaction, Miles Johnston.

Miles Johnston was born in the UK in 1993. He spent the first few years of his early childhood living in Brunei, Borneo, something that he is sure had a major effect on him. The totally different environment gave him the intuition early on that there is no true ‘normal’. In hindsight he has always been interested in anything that helps to transform his perception of the mundane. From mathematics, physics, philosophy, art, he always wanted to see the world around him as if for the first time. He has always felt a sense of the sublime, terrifying, awe inspiring strangeness of being. Like many artists, Johnston began drawing at an early age. He grew up in a creative household and also played video games, and characters from these games were early fodder for practicing art: he learned to copy their likenesses and was gratified to observe his own improvement. It was at this time he learned the term ‘concept artist’ and came to understand that one could pursue art as a career. By 17 he was already a professional artist, and he is poised to share so much more with the world. The rest of his school years were in Hampshire, England. After getting involved in art forums as a young teenager and participating and learning for 5 years, he moved to Sweden to study at the Swedish Academy of Realist Art at the age of 18. Now he works part-time as an instructor at the same school whilst working on developing his own body of work. Over the past couple of years his work has found an audience online and started to be exhibited internationally, culminating in his first solo show in New York at Last Rites Gallery in 2018. He works primarily in graphite and oils, using the human form as a vehicle to attempt to process the intensity and profound strangeness of the collective human experience. The distortions and transformations his subjects undergo serve to represent the experience of our internal state during crucial moments in our lives. Instead of focusing on literal representations of the world, he depicts the surreal and abstract qualities of our subjectivity with the goal of creating works with a deep emotional resonance. It is almost impossible to look at his subjects and not consider what must be going on for them internally, an effect elicited by the emotive poses of Johnston’s figures, in combination with his use of distortion, repetition, division and illusion. For Johnston, evoking an emotional reaction is key; the relationship between a piece and a viewer is what makes a piece of art complete. In his view, a piece can be technically sound and meticulously rendered, but what brings it to life is how it affects those who see it. [Follow Miles Johnston to learn more] https://www.milesjohnstonart.com/    / @milesjart     / miles_art     / milesjohnstonart