Archean Stone – Brixton, Johannesburg.
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Brigitta Stone-Johnson (Brigs)- is an Artist, Architect, researcher and gardener who lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. She has been a lecturer and creative practice researcher at the Wits School of Architecture (SoAP) since 2016. Her PhD work and research in environmental humanities focus on materiality and the Anthropocene through collaborations with more than human oddkin, currently stone, Tar, rubble and plastic in Artistic Practice. (Interdisciplinary between Wits School of Art (WSoA) and Wits School of Architecture (SoAP).
Her current work focuses on stone as a vibrant social matter in the post-extractive urban terrains of Johannesburg. She is a mix-practice artist and maker whose work ranges in scale from building and landscape design to sculptural works in building rubble, tar, concrete, and local stone. As well as 2D works cyanotype and photographic processes on paper and canvas, together with performative digital filmic and 3D artwork
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A R T W O R K S
MATTERING: rubble: Tar, concrete, local stone,
WEATHER WORKS: cyanotype, Ocher, rust, copper on archival cotton
TROUBLED SURFACES: laser cut and abraded concrete and stone and tar.
MURALS: Graphite
Current work : Breath in the extractive zone :
Recent explorations consider the relation of the body, to the particulate dust of the extractive zone.
Brigitta Stone-Johnson (Brigs) 