# Alan Johnston: sources

Identity records and selected press and literature for Alan Johnston, kept by Bartha Contemporary, London.

Updated 31 October 2026.

## Identity

- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/)
- [Artuk.org](https://artuk.org/discover/artists/johnston-alan-thomas-b-1945)
- [Artsy artist page](https://www.artsy.net/artist/alan-johnston)
- [Youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CuRjnJXPF4)
- [Youtube.com](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0Kh8jJDXpw)
- [Pierartscentre.com](https://www.pierartscentre.com/current-upcoming-exhibition/alanjohnston)
- [Artist record page](https://contemporaryartsociety.org/artists/alan-thomas-johnston)
- [Artist record page](https://slewe.nl/artists/alanjohnston)
- [Exhibition page](https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/alan-johnston)
- [Ocula artist page](https://ocula.com/artists/alan-johnston/bartha-contemporary/)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/information)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/drawing-a-shadow)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/tactile-geometry)
- [Tate artist record](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/alan-johnston-22356)
- [Tate.org.uk](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/johnston-river-plain-no-3-t14292)
- [Tate.org.uk](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/johnston-untitled-oxford-series-t14293)
- [Tate.org.uk](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/johnston-untitled-oxford-series-t14294)
- [Tate.org.uk](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/johnston-untitled-oxford-series-t14295)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/mies-houston-johnston)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/beyond-the-flow)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/tactile-drawings)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/alan-johnston)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/alan-johnston-15)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/central-periphery)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/spazio-attivo-ovvero)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/northern-mirror)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/two-cubes)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/haus-wittgenstein)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/jack-tilton-gallery)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/windows-basel-walls-riehen)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/beatson-institute-for-cancer-research)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/retrospective-i)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/retrospective-part-2)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/alan-johnston-30)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/tower-of-the-winds)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/drawing-and-shadow)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/beneath-the-surface)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/wall-drawing-2)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/sleeper)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/to-the-last-drop)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/formless)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/wall-drawings-in-tbilisi)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/wall-drawings-in-yamaguchi)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/alan-johnston-28)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/alan-johnston-37)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/drawing)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/safn-museum)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/bei-konrad-fischer)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/alan-johnston-26)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/alan-johnston-sebastian-dannenberg)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/hiroshima-document)
- [Drawingashadow.com](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/alan-johnston-39)
- [Artbiogs.co.uk](https://www.artbiogs.co.uk/1/artists/johnston-alan)

## Press and literature

### Interviews

- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/library.php?city=London), Northern Mirror, 2000
- [Slewe Gallery / Alan Johnston](https://slewe.nl/audio/alanjohnston), Slewe Gallery
- [Slewe Gallery](https://slewe.nl/audio?ref=626), Slewe Gallery

### Features

- [ARTISTS FILMS - FEUVA](https://feuva.ed.ac.uk/artists-films/), FEUVA (Friends of Edinburgh University Visual Arts), 2024
- [Slewe Gallery](https://slewe.nl/news), Slewe Gallery, 2022
- [Art, Ideas and Interdisciplinarity in Scotland](https://murdomacdonald.wordpress.com/art-ideas-and-interdisciplinarity-in-scotland/), Murdo Macdonald, 2019
- [Alan Johnston](https://www.kunstforum.de/artikel/alan-johnston-2/), Kunstforum, 2018
- [Johnston, Alan](https://www.kunstforum.de/en/person/johnston-alan/), Kunstforum, 2018
- [Alan Johnston](https://www.kunstforum.de/en/article/alan-johnston/), Kunstforum, 2018
- [Alan Johnston's Tactile Geometry](https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/alan-johnston-22356/alan-johnstons-tactile-geometry), Tate, 2013
- [Alan Johnson @BarthaContemporary Private View Thursday November 28th](https://fadmagazine.com/2013/11/27/alan-johnson-barthacontemporary-private-view-thursday-november-28th/), FAD Magazine, 2013
- [L’invisibile straordinario](https://www.artribune.com/report/2011/11/linvisibile-straordinario/), Artribune, 2011
- [This week's exhibitions previews](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/feb/27/visual-arts-previews-the-guide), The Guardian, 2010
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/mirror.php?cat=The%20Site&mir_id=3), northernmirror.com
- [Search : Index: J](https://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/search/index-j), Art Monthly
- [Search : Index: G](https://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/search/index-g), Art Monthly

### Exhibitions

- [英国美術の方法 2 アラン ジョンストン](https://www.conceptspace.jp/post/%E8%8B%B1%E5%9B%BD%E7%BE%8E%E8%A1%93%E3%81%AE%E6%96%B9%E6%B3%95-2-%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3-%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%B3), CONCEPT SPACE, 2025
- [Works from 1988 - 1994](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/alan-johnston-works-from-1988-1994-bartha-contemporary-2024), ALAN JOHNSTON, 2024
- [Screening: Alan Johnston, Beyond the Flow - FEUVA](https://feuva.ed.ac.uk/events/event/screening-alan-johnston-beyond-the-flow/), FEUVA (University of Edinburgh), 2022
- [Slewe Gallery / Paul Wallach, INTERIOR'S](https://slewe.nl/exhibitions/2022), Slewe Gallery, 2022
- [In Praise of Shadows](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/in-praise-of-shadows), ALAN JOHNSTON, 2019
- [Wall Drawings bei Ulrich Ruckreim](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/wall-drawings-bei-ulrich-ruckreim), ALAN JOHNSTON, 2017
- [Crystal Grey](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/crystal-grey), ALAN JOHNSTON, 2017
- [Intelligence](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/intelligence), ALAN JOHNSTON, 2017
- [Asymmetric Cube](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/asymmetric-cube), ALAN JOHNSTON, 2017
- [Wall Drawings](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/wall-drawings), ALAN JOHNSTON, 2017
- [Invisible Lines](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/invisible-lines), ALAN JOHNSTON, 2017
- [Leith](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/leith), ALAN JOHNSTON, 2017
- [Torn Bough](https://drawingashadow.com/projects/torn-bough), ALAN JOHNSTON, 2017
- [exhibitions](https://www.katharinawendler.com/exhibitions/), Katharina Wendler, 2015
- [Drawing on Space](https://drawingroom.org.uk/exhibition/drawing-on-space/), Drawing Room, 2013
- [The Secret Theory of Drawing](https://drawingroom.org.uk/exhibition/the-secret-theory-of-drawing/), Drawing Room, 2013
- [Past exhibitions](https://henry-moore.org/what-we-do/about-the-henry-moore-institute/past-exhibitions-at-the-henry-moore-institute/), Henry Moore Foundation, 2010
- [2009](https://www.rmit.edu.au/about/schools-colleges/college-of-design-and-social-context/engagement/cultural-engagement/galleries/exhibition-archive/2009), RMIT Gallery, 2009
- [Slewe Gallery / Günter Tuzina](https://slewe.nl/exhibitions/2009), Slewe Gallery, 2009
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/mirror.php), northernmirror.com, 2007
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/library.php?city=Osaka), Northern Mirror, 2005
- [Alan Johnston, Restoration. March - April, 2002.](https://www.galerie-iff.com/albums/passespast/content/alan-johnston-restoration-march-april-2002/), IFF, 2002
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/library.php?city=Houston), Northern Mirror, 2002
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/library.php?city=Clonegal), Northern Mirror, 2001
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/library.php?city=Akiyoshidai), Northern Mirror, 1999
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/library.php?city=Edinburgh), Northern Mirror, 1995
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/library.php?city=Vienna), Northern Mirror, 1994
- [Project Index - GRAS](https://gras.co/index/?sort=name), GRAS, 1990

### Catalogues

- [Alan Johnston: tactile drawings Noack, Wita](https://www.hugendubel.info/detail/ISBN-9783935053891/Noack-Wita/Alan-Johnston-tactile-drawings), Hugendubel Fachinformationen, 2016
- [Alan Johnston Drawing a Shadow: No Object](https://shop.henry-moore.org/products/alan-johnston), Henry Moore Foundation, 2010
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/library.php?arc_id=12&city=Reykjavik), Northern Mirror, 2006
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/library.php?city=Yamaguchi), Northern Mirror, 1989
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/library.php?city=New%20York), Northern Mirror, 1988
- [CiNii 図書 - Alan Johnston](https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB02757770), CiNii Books, 1987

### Books

- [Tactile Geometry](https://books.apple.com/us/book/tactile-geometry/id1041396342), Apple Books, 2015
- [Alan Johnston, Tactile Geometry: 9780993362101 - AbeBooks](https://www.abebooks.com/9780993362101/Alan-Johnston-Tactile-Geometry-Esche-0993362109/plp), Bartha Contemporary Ltd, 2015
- [The Northern Mirror: The Ambivalence - Alan Johnston: 9780953891559 - AbeBooks](https://www.abebooks.com/9780953891559/Northern-Mirror-Ambivalence-Alan-Johnston-0953891550/plp), Bury Art Gallery, 2014

### Other

- [EVENTS FOR 2023 - FEUVA](https://feuva.ed.ac.uk/events/), FEUVA, University of Edinburgh, 2023
- [Alan Johnston: Beside the Way](https://murdomacdonald.wordpress.com/alan-johnston-beside-the-way/), Murdo Macdonald, 2018
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/mirror.php?cat=The%20Site&mir_id=4), Northern Mirror
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/mirror.php?cat=The%20Site&mir_id=11), Northern Mirror
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/mirror.php?cat=The%20Site&mir_id=12), Northern Mirror
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/library.php?arc_id=21&city=Edinburgh), Northern Mirror
- [Northern Mirror](https://northernmirror.com/library.php?city=Reykjavik), Northern Mirror