ALEXANDRA  JOHANNSEN
                      CERAMICIST
          WASPS, STUDIO 11, 77 HANSON STREET, GLASOW.G31 2QA
                  MOBILE 07951876512-STUDIO 01415508030
                            INFO@ALEXJOHANNSEN.COM

I like to find humour in life, and find clay a fantastic
medium in which to demonstrate this. Any work which makes me smile or laugh out loud is good in my book.
If people find joy in my work, i feel it’s a job well done.
Enjoy.

education
1990-1993
b.a. honours ceramics, edinburgh college of art
1988-1990
o.n.d Ceramic Design
1983-1984
Pre nursing course

exhibitions
2009- Glasgow art fair
        Edinburgh art show
        Royal Glasow Institute exhibition
       

2008- glasgow art fair
        edinburgh art show
        3d gallery bristol
        Buckenham gallery southwold suffolk
        arteries gallery glasgow
        hannah gallery dundee
        stepahnie hoppen gallery, knightsbridge
        affordable art fair, london.

2007-compass gallery glasgow
       affordable art fair, london
       gatehouse gallery
       art exposure gallery, glasgow
       apple gallery, godalming, surrey
       just scottish gallery, festival show, edinburgh
       arteries gallery glasgow
       jerdan gallery crail.

2006 and before….
     exhibited in london, whitby, bath, stirling, norwich, beccles, bristol, you can email me if you want names and dates

employment

Norfolk council, running workshops
aardmann animation, bristol, modelmaker
edinburgh college of art, life drawing tutor
edinburgh adult education, ceramics tutor
Edinburgh council, support worker.
Enable, support worker.
endeavour art studios edinburgh, sculpting and modelling for museum installations
provence, working in tanden with french potter
chalk and grime, portrait head modelling
camphill devon, running a pottery for, and living in community with adults with learning difficulties .
being on the l.l.p. and Running a large ceramic studio.

Commissions:

(public ones…)

norwich city council, commissioned me to make a ‘three wise monkeys’ sculpture for the top of a pavillion in a park.
commissioned by a catholic church in suffolk to make 20 wall pieces on the mysteries of the rosary

(private ones)
I have had many private commissions, mainly of peoples pets, but also of people, and obscure fictitious characters.
The last one was for, my dentist, which was, a winged, chicken legged, dog headed, fish bodied, propeller tailed, bobble hat wearing, ‘ode to Tom weir!’

additional shows
Glasgow art fayre all years,
2007-2010
Commission nnuh tiles for ward
       rabbits for outside
Galleries in cirencester
glasgows annan gallery
Lime exhibition Glasgow