About the work

This drawing is part of a body of work exploring the ‘urge to merge' in the lesbian and queer community.

Date and country of birth

1985, GB

About the artist

Born 1985 Brighton, Jasmine Johnson lives and works in London. Graduated from BA Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University (2007); MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths University (2014); and DPhil Fine Art at Ruskin School of Art (ongoing).

Johnson works with people, recording words, objects and day-to-day activities. Drawings, videos and performances have been motivated by admiration, education, longing and searching for alternative worlds which could emerge through connection.

Selected exhibitions include Love: Annotations II, Drawing Room, London (2020); More Than Two: Omnibus, Barbican Public Spaces Commission, London (2018); This is Not This: Jasmine Johnson and Rachel Pimm, Devos Museum, Michigan (2018); More Than Two: Episode 3, Almanac Projects, London (2018); Upright, Jerwood Project Space, London (2016); and Third Party, ASI, Moscow (2015). Selected group presentations, publication and screenings include Queer Anthology of Healing, Pilot Press, London (2020); A Perfect Instrument: Kristina, screening with Emanuel Almborg, CAC & Rupert, Vilnius (2018); Subversions of Reality, Place des Arts, Montreal (2017); and Bloomberg New Contemporaries, ICA, London (2015).

Residencies include Hospitalfield, Arbroath (2019); Rabbit Island, Michigan (2017); and Rupert, Vilnius (2016).