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Professor Stephen Johnstone has worked in collaboration with Graham Ellard since 1993. Their work is concerned with the relationship between pre-cinematic spectacle and immersive space and abstract film and cinematic spectacle. This body of work exists at the intersection of architecture and film and draws on and emphasises the architectural qualities of the projected video image to create an immersive and dynamic space that the spectator experiences as a kind of performer. Most recently, their work has engaged with the conventions of representing architectural space in film.

Academic qualifications

• Phd, Middlesex Polytechnic, 'Anecdotes of Romantic Failure: Issac D'Israeli's 'Dissertation on Anecdotes', 'Characteristics of Genius', and 'Calamities of Authors'', 1994    
• M/Phil Research, Middlesex  Polytechnic, 'Failure and the Romantic Image of the Artist', 1991 (funded by British Academy Research Scholarship)  
• BA Contemporary Cultural Studies, Middlesex Polytechnic, 1986
• Cert Ed Fine Art  Goldsmiths College, University of London, 1982

Professional projects

Stephen's work with Graham Ellard has been commissioned by De La Warr Pavillion, Cornerhouse and Film and Video Umbrella, London. He received a public art commission along with dePaor Architects in 2001 for 'Holding Pattern', an A13 Artscape Project at the Lodge Avenue Interchange in Barking, Essex. His work has been funded by Film London, the London Arts Board, the Arts Council of England and the London Film and Video Development Agency.

His group exhibitions with Ellard have been featured around the world, including the Photographer's Gallery, the ICA and Architectural Association in London, the Van Alen Institute in New York, Bregenzer Kunstverein in Austria, the V2 Gallery in Rotterdam, the Stockholm House of Culture in Sweden, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Australia. They have been funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, among others.