Print Exchange 2025: Rhi Johnson

Rhi Johnson is an artist and educator based in Queensland, Australia, who works primarily in the fields of printmaking, painting, and artist books. She is interested in the formation of everyday narratives and how these can be disrupted or subverted visually. Increasingly, she has become interested in lived experiences and how these mediate everyday encounters, reactions, and interactions.

She investigates objects, signs, or other visual cues that can punctuate an environment, object or space of perceived meaning, and in doing so, may allude to parallel experiences and mechanisms for meaning making. This occurs in physical spaces inhabited or engaged with by multiple individuals, each presenting with their own history, understanding and intentions which dictate how they interact with and experience an environment. Johnson is interested in the overlapping traces that these interactions leave behind.

More recently, this focus has extended to shared domestic spaces and the unexpected encounters that can occur within. In this context, the artist interrogates self-reflective narratives of womanhood and motherhood through a neurodivergent lens. This shift represents a sense of vulnerability and transparency when dealing with small moments, slow evolutions, persistent discovery and individual and collective memory.