By Craig Stewart Johnson.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Craig Stewart Johnson is a visual and audio artist based in Gateshead, UK. His artwork focuses on the detail and nuance of everyday textures and places. Developing from an interest in underground music, there is an obsession with the aesthetic aspects of diy culture. Analog methods of production are an ever-present inspiration, the imperfections flowing through the work informing a search for beauty and catharsis in decay. He has exhibited at various location in the UK and further afield, as well as having multiple sound works published though record labels such as Kirigirisu Recordings, Crow Versus Crow and Modern Concern. His mostly recent publication of collage work, Dead Negatives, was published by Paper View Books, Portugal. He is currently a postgraduate researcher at Northumbria University researching self-organisation and DIY culture in underground experimental music.
