'As If'
'Manhunt'
'You Should Look at Ian Kiaer' 2026
Phospheresent paint, found timber, building leak, linen stretcher, acrylic gel, family picture, vehicle spray
Trying It On
I & II
Each 110 x 65cm, satinised linen, timber, acrylic, varnish, paper
Meanwhile:
A 'tulpa' is a physical and free-willed entity that is manifested through intense concentration, in Tibetan Buddhism.
Goth Not Goth
65 x 90cm
Meanwhile:
St. Genesius of Rome (patron Saint of Actors) was a 3rd-century Roman actor. During a show in front of the Emperor he had a conversion experience whilst performing receiving the Sacrament of Baptism. When he refused to renounce his new faith, he was martyred by the Emperor. Ha ha.
Ugly is Free.
43 x 45cm approx
Meanwhile:
"I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you want to say stupid nice things and stroke the heads of people who could create such beauty while living in this vile hell.” Lenin
Last Unfkd Things.
From a series, maybe a working title.
Meanwhile:
Kayfabe:
The tacit agreement between professional wrestlers and their fans to pretend that overtly staged wrestling events, stories, characters, etc., are genuine
… for at least 50 years "kayfabe" has referred to the unspoken contract between wrestlers and spectators: We'll present you something clearly fake under the insistence that it's real, and you will experience genuine emotion. Neither party acknowledges the bargain, or else the magic is ruined.—
Nick Rogers
Merriam Webster Dictionary
Not What I Meant
by Kika Sroka-Miller and Benedict Johnson
12.06 - 22.06
PV : Thursday 12th June 6—9pm
Artists’ discussion and picnic
Sunday 22nd June 2pm
Gallery open
13th—22 June
Fri 2—8pm
Sat & Sun 12—6 pm
Not What I Meant presents new works by Benedict Johnson and Kika Sroka-Miller as the second part of a collaborative project started in 2024. Curious about the relative lack of collective process within the discipline, the artists explore painting at the same time on the same works, so as to interrogate the idea of artistic ownership, especially the mythology of ‘painter as lone artist’ making and delivering artworks to the world.
Working as two painters in dialogue, whilst exploring Buddhist, psychoanalytic and anarchist conceptions of self, non-self, or self and other, Johnson and Sroka-Miller conduct artistic investigations in territorial navigation, dualism and non-differentiation. In doing so their experimental approach has hinted at a possible connection to, or creation of, a third.
