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Fauziya Johnson's Artist C.V.
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Below is a list of the most relevant work to my practice. You can find more of my curation here.
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Exhibitions as Artist and Curator
2022/23 + Upcoming:
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Tetley Leeds x Jerwood Commissions: Past (Retrospect), Present (Reality), Future (Reform) (curator)
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Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool 'Are You Messin?': CityScape Dreams (artist)
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Iniva x Short Supply x Manchester Art Gallery: CO LAB: Embodied Healing (curator/artist)
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Women of the World Festival: Care, Resilience and Democracy Activity Pack for Schools (artist)
2021:
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Liverpool Biennial, FACT Liverpool: Soft Boys (curator)
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Rule of Threes and Venus Charity: Debt Abolishment (artist and curator)
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Short Chronicles: Our Experiences of BPD (online curation)
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OUTPUT Gallery: Hilan Gully, Voices (curator)
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Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds: QTIPoC Exhibition Party (curator)
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Convenience Gallery: Aesthetics (artist and curator)
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2020:
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OUTPUT Open 4 (artist, video piece)
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2019:
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OUTPUT Gallery Liverpool: ROOT-ed Zine (curator)
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Tate Liverpool: ROOT-ed Zine: Hair, Black History and Movement (curator)
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2018:
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Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University: Catalyst: Fine Art Degree Show (artist/curator)
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Liverpool Independents Biennial, St John’s Market: ROOT-ed Zine: Black Womxn (artist/curator)
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FACT Liverpool: ROOT-ed Zine Showcase of the FACT Artist Residency (artist/curator)
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The Annual Labour Party Conference/British Museum, Liverpool: Black Flowers (photographer)
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2017: Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University: Itch (artist)
2016: Cornerstone Gallery, Liverpool Hope University: Art Salad (artist/manager)
2015: Royal Liver Building, Liverpool: BTEC Final Year Showcase (artist)
2014: Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Welcome to My World (artist)
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Education
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2015-2018: Liverpool Hope University, BAHons Fine and Applied Art
Final grade: First Class with Honours
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2013-2015: Liverpool Community College, Level 3 BTEC Extended Diploma, Art and Design
Final grade: Distinction* Distinction* Distinction
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Articles:
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Black Ballad: How Black Women In Liverpool Are Reclaiming Colonial Spaces
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ROOT-ed Zine: BPD Monologue
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FACT Liverpool: Artist Blog for 'You Feel Me?' Exhibition
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This Way Up Convention: Day 2 Review
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Freelance Photography
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Aura Music Event, Liverpool
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EASTN-DC 2018 Festival Photographer, University of Manchester
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Shaping Futures Festival Events, University of Liverpool
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Black Flowers Video Photography, Liverpool
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Workshops as an Artist
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Discovering Black and Asian History Through Art, Walker Art Gallery + Lady Lever Gallery, practical workshop
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Light Night, Make a Zine with ROOT-ed workshop, FACT Liverpool
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Light Night, Debate Art with ROOT-ed workshop, Tate Liverpool
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Countdown to Brexit, Press Room, Human Libraries , Bootle Library
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Moon in Venus, Venus Charity + Rule of Threes, practical and research workshop
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Glossary Review of Jade Montserrat's Insituting Care, practical workshop Humber Street Art Gallery , Hull
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Art Crits Workshops, practical and theoretical workshop, International Slavery Museum, Liverpool
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How to Make a Zine? - Business Perspectives + Advice, young people's workshop, Blaze Arts
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Glossary Review of Jade Montserrat, Insituting Care, practical workshop, Bluecoat Gallery
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How to draw Architectural Landscapes: Turnpike Foundation
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Blue Monday- Kinetic drawings: Rule of Threes
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Make a zine workshop: LAAF
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Talks / Lectures / Panel events
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Panels
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Should the North Take the Knee? With Nazir Afzal, Erinma Bell, Gulwali Passarlay, Amber Akaunu for People's Powerhouse
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The Watermelon Woman Panel event, Scalarama Fest, Cinema Nation, Liverpool
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Precarity within the Arts, FACT Liverpool, A-N (Artist Network)
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Lubaina Himid UCLAN Symposium, with Dr Ingrid Pollard, Christine Eyene, Evan Ifekoya, Jade Montserrat
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This Garden of Ours - Links between Botany and Power, Manchester Museum, Journeys Festival
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In Conversation with Michelle Williams Gamaker, Walker Art Gallery
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Act 1: Ira Alridge– Curiosity and Creative Language with Jade Montserrat, Manchester Art Gallery, INIVA Arts
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Lectures
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ROOT-ed Zine - How It Started, John Moores University
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Racism and Colonisation in Architecture, Edge Hill University
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Reflection on FACT Artist Residency, Liverpool Hope University
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Being a Person of Colour in the Arts and Media, Kingston University
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General talks
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ROOT-ed Zine Navigating Through Arts and Media, HYPERTEXT Fair, People's Powerhouse Convention
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How to Make a Zine? - Business Perspective, BLAZE Arts
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Black Flowers - Importence of Re-Claiming Architectural Colonised Spaces, Blackburn House
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Black Flowers - Impact of colonised architectural spaces, International Slavery Museum
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How to Diversify Work Environments and Make Radical change, Informa Markets Aviation
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Awards​
2019/20:
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Liverpool Arts and Culture Award (Adding Value), Liverpool (ROOT-ed Zine)
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Steve Biko Young Achievers Award
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1 month Artist Residency and Studio Space, Bluecoat Gallery
2018:
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FACT and Hope Production and Artist Residency, FACT, Liverpool.
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Art in Liverpool Exhibition Award within Liverpool Independents Biennial, Bluecoat Gallery,
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Art in Liverpool Biennial Exhibitions award for ROOT-ed Zine, St John’s Market, Liverpool
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Go Fund Me’s Go Think Big project funding, ROOT-ed Zine
2016: 1st place, Pictures of Hope Photography competition.
2015: Liverpool Hope University Excellence Scholarship, £6000
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Press 2018-20
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Art in Liverpool Issue 1, Guest Publication: ROOT-ed Zine
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Bido Lito September Issue 92, ROOT-ed’s Raison d'être
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BBC Radio Merseyside’s Upfront Interview of ROOT-ed Zine
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Catalyst Fine Art students in conversation with: ROOT-ed Zine, Thomas Dukes (Open Eye Gallery) and Jay Wheeler (Artist). MAKE, Liverpool
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Tate Liverpool: LightNight 2018: ROOT-ed Debate
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Liverpool Hope University: New Magazine Published by Fine Art Students
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The Guardian: Lubaina Himid – ROOT-ed Zine (BLM Print)
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Liverpool Echo: ROOT-ed Zine in collaboration with Homotopia Zine to collaborate with UK's leading LGBTQIA+ festival
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More freelance work:
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Selector for Creative Debut's Black Artist Grant
Funding Panel for Art in Liverpool Independents Biennial x Metal Liverpool Artist Residencies
Trustee for Metal Culture UK (2021-now)
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Previous Employment (skills based/relevant)
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2019/20: Marketing and Administrative Manager, Askademia Tuition
2018: Marketing and Communications Internship, University of Manchester
2018: FACT and Hope Production and Artist Residency, FACT Liverpool
2018: Output Gallery 'ROOT-ed Zine', Curator, Liverpool: Black History Month x ROOT-ed Zine
2018: EASTN-DC 2018 Festival Photographer, University of Manchester
2018: Freelance Events Photographer with Shaping Futures, University of Liverpool
2016-2018: Usherette at the Capstone Theatre, Liverpool
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