Matthew Johnson
Matt Johnson is an image maker, researcher and senior lecturer working in the Graphic Design and Illustration department at LJMU. Matt’s interests include hybrid images, signification, relations between affects and textuality and material in art and design and in the dynamic interface between disciplinary boundaries.
Primarily working from within what became known as Visual Cultures, Matt has cultivated a critical interest in the further development of this field beyond any narrow curatorial approach. Matt’s theoretical and practical work pivots around the idea that the everyday provides the material for multiple subjective statements, narrative positions and contact points, made manifest through the performative subversion of popular culture.
Teaching at LJMU includes the leading the MA Illustration programme, teaching Illustration on the BA (Hons) Graphic Design and Illustration programme, including dissertation and PhD supervision in collaboration with Transart in New York. Matt has taught at a number of UK and European Universities and schools of art, including Bournemouth, LCC and St. Martin’s in London, Manchester School of Art, Hertfordshire, at UCCA in Kent and in Lahti in Finland. Matt has given talks and papers at Universities in Amsterdam, Dublin, Lodz, Berlin and Valencia.