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Matthew Johnson is a Melbourne based artist who has been practising as a professional artist for more than three decades.

A large part of Johnson’s art practice has comprised public and urban art commissions, and his portfolio in this respect reflects an understanding and appreciation of place and its inhabitants, with the underlying intention of intelligent engagement of the immediate community.

Johnson is the appointed artist currently working to complete the integrated artwork for the car park facades at Chadstone Shopping Centre. His design concept comprises an integrated artwork acting as a continuous ‘ribbon’ enveloping the entirety of the exposed facades and delineating each car park by way of the natural landscape of the immediate environment, in some material form.

Johnson’s diverse travel and cultural experiences have imparted a considerable influence on his art practice, the legacy of which has become distilled through the archetypal filter of oil and pigment. The underlying compositional structures of his paintings are repetitive – grids, geometric patterns, stripes or sequential arrangements - all of which are drawn from nature.

Johnson has observed of his practice: "My current oeuvre started in early 2000 and over the past two decades the paintings have become more honed and refined. …In essence my practice is relatively cyclical in nature. I often return to earlier conceptual applications and redefine these processes by different means, whether it be in painting, design or architecture."

Johnson has an extensive and impressive CV, having exhibited nationally on a consistent basis. Additionally, he has also shown in Hong Kong, New York, Paris, Berlin, Hanoi, Dublin, Auckland. His work has been presented at a number of prestigious international art fairs, notably, Art Paris (2003, 2001) and recently, Art Central in Hong Kong (2016).

Johnson’s work has been widely critiqued throughout his career, having been the subject of feature articles and profiles by well-known critics and published in prestigious art journals and magazines. Johnson has also been a recipient of a number of awards, residencies and grants, some of which have comprised residencies in Spain and Paris.

Johnson’s work is held in numerous private and corporate collections nationally including Artbank, Crown Towers Melbourne, Macquarie Bank, BHP Collection, KPMG, Robert Holmes à Court Collection, Smorgon Collection, Heide Museum of Art and the Museum of Old and New Art in Tasmania, and internationally based private collections in Cologne, Munich, New York, Madrid, Seoul, Vancouver, and Hong Kong.